Quarantine Day ?

I don't know what day it is let alone what day quarantine it is.  Just kidding.  I know it's Monday the 30th.  I've been able to keep track by my trusty calendar and because I've been attending daily Mass.  :)  So far, so good.  I can't complain.  In fact, I've found myself extremely grateful for this time and the many blessings we have and continue to receive.

We've been getting out of the house lately to look at houses.  We are careful not to touch anything with our hands and to Purell when we get back in the car. We are relying on God to tell us where He wants us.  For instance, today we were supposed to see a house that's been on the market for over 100 days.  The realtor contacted us this morning to tell us it went under contract this morning.  This is the second house in an area we've been looking, so we're getting the idea that this area is not where we're supposed to be.  

We're looking at two other houses today both in areas of interest, one more so than the other.  Again we're faced with either being close to where we want and paying more or further out and paying less.  I guess we'll see what God picks.  The further out house needs cosmetic changes as far as we can see right now.  The closer location house is ready to go, but it hardly has any yard and has an HOA.  Also, it's not really the style we like (colonial).  

Enough about all of this.  Here are some things that have been happening.

 We've been to the storage unit a couple times to collect things.  I don't know what it is about these times that makes people take things out of storage that they're not going to use, but that's what we're doing.

Rory and I did our Covid-19 haircuts.  I think Marz wants to be next, but she'll just get a trim.  Rory did bangs, and I cut about 5 inches off, just enough to resemble Inigo Montoya.

Before K'lyn's work closed, we bought Easter stuff to paint.  We were supposed to bring it back to get it fired, but they closed before we could.  

Logan was pretty upset that his Confirmation was postponed, so we went and got Red Lobster for dinner that night.  That's where we were going to eat after the ceremony.  We pulled up, got the food, and then ate it in a parking lot across the street.  They didn't give Logan anything to crack the crab with, so we went back to Red Lobster and asked for crackers, and then gave them back when he was done.  

I got Kevin and I footmasks.  They're those things that you put on your feet and then 7-10 days later, you're feet peel off and you have baby skin feet.  Kevin was NOT happy and just kept telling me that this should prove his love for me.  :)  He ended up being allergic we think, but we're coming into the peeling phase cuz our feet are nasty looking.

On one of the trips to storage, Rory found her fairy lights that she wanted, so those are up and decorating her cubby (which she refers to as coffin).  She also put stickers up on her blind.  

This is what Kevin has been doing with his time.  The stuff he takes from storage makes this t-shirt more of a threat than a joke.  (insert roll eye emoji)

I'm in the midst of mourning for Easter which is ironic.  I miss the music.  I might end up just looking up and listening to the music.  That's the second best part of Easter.  While I've been blogging, the governor just announced a shelter in place.  *sigh

RV Quarantine Day 4

I'm not sure what day quarantine it is because it feels  like forever in an RV.  It's actually not much different than normal living in an RV.  The fact that we homeschool means that our family routine hasn't changed much.  The only difference is that we're staying home from co-op on Tuesdays and Fridays.  It's still hard, and I sometimes think about how much better it would be if we were in the house. 
Speaking of the house, we lowered our sell price today.  We're hoping this generates more interest.  Don't get me wrong, there has been PLENTY of interest, 22 showings to be exact.  There are two more tonight, and one tomorrow.  Hopefully once the new price gets out, there will be more to come this weekend.  At this point, we need to get out from under this house and pay off some debt.  
I've already registered at our new co-op where it looks like I'll be teaching three classes of K-2 one morning a week.  This co-op only has classes once a week for K-8 and then twice a week for high schoolers, so Rory will be able to drive Logan on the other day while I stay home with Marley.  We're all pretty excited about these new changes.  Now we're just hoping my teaching covers their class prices.  
With this darn virus, pretty much everything is up in the air.  We have mortgage rates going for us, but I don't see us buying anything for a while.  We've been looking and don't really see anything we like on the market where we're going.  We're truly blessed to have the RV to stay in until we figure things out.  Thanks again Nana and Papa!

Before school closed, people were still calling out sick.  It left the nursery shorthanded, so they had to call in the reserves.  This is Logan with one of the babies.  So adorable!!

Imagine Logan wearing this.  This was the confirmation tux we had rented and then refunded since his confirmation is now delayed.  :(

Sometimes this is what I see in the morning.  Good thing she hasn't fallen out, yet.

My eldest sister had her birthday.  We all celebrated even though we probably shouldn't have. #coronaquarantine

Rory and I had an epic game of war the other day.  This was just the times when it went to double war.  Want to see something that I've never seen in war before?

All four 8's.  We should've played the lottery that day or something!

We have a sign!

Did you know that for sale signs at houses are brought in by third parties, and sometimes the realtors don't even know when they're going to go up?  Our realtor ordered our sign Monday and said it should be here in a couple of days.  She said it'll just show up.  We went to Adoration yesterday, and when we got home, there it was.

It was late when we got home so sorry for the darkness.  The realtor came and put her name and number on it today.

Kevin and I went somewhere, and I mentioned to him that it was so real now with the sign there.  We talked about it for a little bit and walked into the RV.  We mentioned something about the sign, and Logan said, "It seems so real now with the sign there."  We laughed because I had just said the same thing.  Fast forward to this morning, and Rory and I were hanging out in the house waiting for muffins to get done, and she said, "It seems so real now with the sign there."  At least the three of us are on the same page for now.  

We went out this afternoon and buried our St. Joseph statue.  We've prayed to this St. Joseph statue (the same one as the Guardians of the RV post) to sell out house.  This is something Catholics do apparently.  It dates way back to St. Theresa of Avila.  She was trying to find a place and build a new monastery.  She prayed to St. Joseph, and everything began to fall into place.  Since then it has become custom to bury a St. Joseph statue upside down in your front lawn, so that he's uncomfortable and will sell your house fast.  Once it's sold, you're supposed to dig him up and put him in a place of honor in your new house.  

Our friends did this when they sold their house years ago.  They asked us to go dig up their statue, and we never did.  (GASP!)  In our defense, it rained for days and the new people had already moved it.  We would've had to tell them we needed to dig in their yard ("somewhere around the mailbox") and get St. Joseph.  I'm sure he understands the consequences. Anyway, with that all done, we'll start our St. Joseph Novena tonight.

The stagers came on Tuesday.  The house looks amazing, and yesterday they took the pictures.  It should be listed soon, so we'll see how that goes.  Here's what the stagers did.

I didn't get a picture of Kevin's office.  I don't know why, but picture a white room with a black desk and chair.  Ta-da!  

This happened this morning.  Marz had just come up to brush her teeth and was greeted by Kevin in the kitchen.  I love her face in this pic, so I captured it for you all.  You're welcome.  

And now we pray for offers of full price or over and a quick and easy sale.

The House - Part Zillion

The normal routine around here has become:
6a wake up
630a get to work
11p go to bed

We're all cranky and need sleep.  We have been on the go for a while now.  Here are some things we've accomplished.

Kevin decided he wanted the garage painted because we totally have money for that too.  NOT  Anyway, there's paint that's chipping away on the walls, so we had to scrape it off.  We searched everything in vain for masks because people are buying them out for the Coronavirus.  The painter told us to use bandanas, and this is what we ended up with.  Mine kind of matched my hair.  I wonder if that's why Kevin got me white.  

It was kind of satisfying scraping the paint off especially when huge sections came off at a time.  The dust was crazy, and we had to take breaks for clean air every now and then.  The result?

It looks so much better!

I'm going to go with the sense that it's a guy thing, but it looks a lot better for a garage.  It makes Kevin happy, so that's good too.  

In the meantime we got new carpet in the basement and master bedroom.  There was carpet in the bedroom when we first moved in, but we changed it to hardwood floors.  I think it looks better now with carpet.  We also got the hardwood floors refinished, but for some reason, I didn't get any pics of that.  I'll be sure to take some for you tomorrow.  We worked mostly outside today.  The kids and Kevin already did a huge yard day last week, but today we did the mulching and rest of the cleaning.  We even rearranged rocks in front of the house.  I think it turned out real nice.

We bought 44 bags of mulch.  It's all down the side of the house and in front of the garage too.  I kept going to the store for the mulch, and I would bring a different kid each time.  The same lady checked us out all the times except the last.  It was funny and not at the same time.  

And this cast of characters are the Guardians of the RV.  We have St. George, St. Michael the Archangel, Groot, and St. Joseph.