First week.

Well, we survived our first week of isolation. Things started to get a little iffy the week before. Watching how things were unfolding in eastern Canada and all over the World, but Alberta seemed to be okay with very few cases. Things started to feel different though. Washing your hands, don't touch your face, if you've traveled outside of Canada you had to self isolate for 14 days. Weird things started happening in grocery stores, namely toilet paper was being hoarded, which I still don't understand but that's what happens when people start to let fear and panic take over their lives. It just felt different, but life went on as usual. Schools out east and in the U.S were shutting down but Alberta kept saying ours wouldn't close. Two days later we got the announcement that Albert schools were closed and that everyone needed to practice social distancing. It felt so sudden. I guess it shouldn't have watching the direction the rest of the World was going in, but it still felt sudden to me. How do you process that?

Of course the kids were excited that school was out, jumping and cheering like summer vacation had just started. But I knew the full impact of what that meant, and how it would ripple down and effect all areas of our life. I think they are starting to get it now, and I think in a couple of weeks they will be itching to go back to their regular lives, school included. I'm not going to lie. I was pissed and so annoyed, not at anyone in particular, just the situation. I know it was the right call for our government and leaders to make, it just sucked. Things were going so well for us. I had just got offered a permanent position in the kindergarten for the rest of the year which was supposed to start tomorrow actually. Well of course that's on hiatus, and I can't even sub anymore so that means absolutely no income for me. We just listed out house and even had a showing. Not sure how the momentum with that will go now. Competition was coming up. The boys had spring basketball tryouts coming up. Life was just good. Life felt stable. In that moment, it all came crashing down around me. And then I was sad and worried, and all of a sudden that stable life felt so uncertain. As we've gone through our first week I've been able to feel joy, hope, and keep a pretty positive outlook, but I'm also human and sometimes I feel scared and uncertain. I know lesson's will be learned, new opportunities will arise and that ultimately we will be okay. Everything will workout and we'll be all the more better for it. But anyway, here is what our first week looked like.

The first day was interesting because my kids and a lot of other kids thought it was a holiday where they got to go hang out with friends. From day one I was like No. We are supposed to be social distancing, this is not a vacation from school and we are going to take this thing seriously. My kids were not super happy about that, one in particular had a really hard time with it (I'm sure most of you can guess which one that was). I was surprised how many phone calls they got from friends asking to hang out. I stayed firm, and all week we literally stayed in our house. We didn't even go outside because the weather was cold. I think some of those parents realized how serious it was after the first two days and now it seems like all their friends are staying home. I haven't been pushing the whole school thing because I just have no desire or interest in doing school work with my kids. I knew the school's were putting together online stuff and that is definitely their expertise and I am completely fine with my kids taking it easy the first week. We'll think about school when the teacher's start sending stuff to do. The only school stuff we've been doing is writing in our journal's and reading. Good enough for me at this point.

The kids have been doing chores everyday and we've really been working on keeping things clean and cleaning up after ourselves.

We were so excited that Frozen 2 became available early on Disney +, and the girls and I took full advantage. I loved it. Such a good movie.

Ty creating

Watching Arrow with Ty again. We took a little break because of our busy lives but now we're back at it

 One of the hardest things for me and the girls to get use to is no dance. That was such a huge part of our lives. Luckily the online dance community has been awesome and we have found tons of online classes to attend. They've been doing a lot of lyrical and contemporary classes from renowned choreographers and its been so fun. They've also been working on their exam prep for jazz and ballet, and practicing their festival pieces.

So grateful for this little space we have at home for them to dance in

McKenna even got to do a pilates class on zoom with her pilates teacher and some of our JDF family. It was so fun and so good to see everyone. I am so grateful for technology.

Also all the face timing with friends. So glad they can keep in touch.

This was McKenna face timing and stretching with a friend

Some people stress eat, but I stress shop. Did a little online shopping over the last few days.

This is my "I'm ready for spring outfit." I still have two more packages that need to be delivered.

I think it worked because Saturday was such a beautiful day. The sun was out and we took full advantage. We went out to the farm for the day and the kids, and Ryan, literally spent the whole day outside. Snowmobiling, sledding, and just playing hard in nature. I went for a walk and then just sat out with the sun shining on my face, and it breathed life back into my soul. It was the perfect way to end week one.

Little people shadows

Well I hope everyone survived their first week and you are all staying healthy and taking advantage of slowing down and really being present. I plan on blogging quite a bit over the next month. Its so therapeutic for me and I am fully going to take advantage of utilizing the time that I've been given to do so. Here are a couple of fun little Meme's to leave you with. (if that's what they're called)