Days in quarantine: 82
Cases: 1059
Picture of the Day: None
Today is the last day of school. The economy in Nova Scotia is starting to open up. International borders remain closed; we still don't know if we will be going to Europe this summer.
Days in quarantine: 61
Cases: 1034
Picture of the Day: None
Today, it was announced that we can "bubble" with another household. It should be nice to see G&G in flesh.
Days in quarantine: 54
Cases: 1008
Picture of the Day: None
Today, it was announced that schools in Nova Scotia would not be reopening for the current school year. We will be continuing with doing school from home for a few more weeks.
Days in quarantine: 50
Cases: 985
Picture of the Day: None
Today we received some sad news from the Czech Republic: our (great)-grandfather died in the night, peacefully in his sleep. The current situation makes this more difficult because we can't go over to visit.
Days in quarantine: 44
Cases: 915
Picture of the Day: None
Today is Grammie's birthday; the children traced themselves on brown paper, cut themselves out, and coloured themselves in. We then took some headshots, printed them off, and attached them to the paper bodies. In the afternoon, we delivered them to her house as "virtual hugs".
We also got about 15cm of snow.
Days in quarantine: 41
Cases: 865
Picture of the Day: None
Today was a gorgeous day. We decided to build a trampoline. It took many hours but we got it done. This should be something fun for the kids to do while in quarantine.
Here is a video of us building it.
Days in quarantine: 39
Cases: 827
Picture of the Day: None
Daddy cut the boys' hair. They look like they just got out of prison. Super cute.
Days in quarantine: 32
Cases: 579
Picture of the Day: None
Today is Erin's nameday so she got some presents, and a nice Burger King take-out. She was looking forward to having some Chinese food but our usual place is closed.
Days in quarantine: 31
Cases: 549
Picture of the Day: None
Days in quarantine: 30
Cases: 517
Picture of the Day: None
Days in quarantine: 29
Cases: 474
Picture of the Day: None
Daddy was off work today, so we had a photo shoot. The children enjoyed dressing up as their favourite Star Wars characters.
Days in quarantine: 28
Cases: 445
Picture of the Day: None
Another Lord's day in isolation. Easter call with the Archibald clan in the afternoon.
Days in quarantine: 27
Cases: 428
Picture of the Day: None
Erin wanted to have a movie marathon. We had to explain what that was, and the children were instantly onboard with the concept. We only managed two movies.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Apollo 13
Days in quarantine: 26
Cases: 407
Picture of the Day: None
Family movie night, Karate Kid. The children enjoyed Mr Miyagi's strange training methods.
Days in quarantine: 25
Cases: 373
Picture of the Day: None
G&G came over to drop off Easter presents and say hi
Days in quarantine: 24
Cases: 342
Picture of the Day: None
Today, it's our two-year-old neighbour's birthday. He loves the police, so a police car came over to visit. We were invited to watch, and to film. You can watch the video.
Days in quarantine: 23
Cases: 310
Picture of the Day: None
Days in quarantine: 22
Cases: 293
Picture of the Day: None
Days in quarantine: 21
Cases: 262
Picture of the Day: None
Another Lord's day online. We went for a walk in the thorny woods in the afternoon.
Days in quarantine: 20
Cases: 236
Picture of the Day: None
Today, we filled my red fedora hat with tons of little papers with fun activities on them. When the children are bored, they can pull a paper out of the hat, and do it.
They were so excited about the idea that they wanted to draw something as soon as they were done. They picked "kids make supper" so they made pizza. No injuries or accidents.
Days in quarantine: 19
Cases: 207
Picture of the Day: None
Family movie night! This time, we watched Cinderella.
Days in quarantine: 18
Cases: 193
Picture of the Day: None
Days in quarantine: 17
Cases: 173
Picture of the Day: pandas
The children had a nice breakfast of oatmeal with ketchup and pickles and marshmallows, and salty water. April fools! We watched The Addam's family. We played Skip-bo for an hours and a half.
Days in quarantine: 16
Cases: 147
Picture of the Day: None
The children received a nice video from their teachers saying they missed the students. They responded with colored in pictures that we scanned together. They had lots of fun emailing their teachers.
Life in quarantine proceeds smoothly. We have settled into a nice routine. We can do this!
Days in quarantine: 15
Cases: 127
Picture of the Day: None
Today, Daddy went grocery shopping. He had to follow a strict hand-washing protocol while at the store, and all the items had to be washed before they were allowed in the house.
The government announced that schools will be closed until May 1.
Days in quarantine: 14
Cases: 122
Picture of the Day: None
Another Lord's day in quarantine; this time the livestream from our church worked a lot better.
We talked to our Czech family (8 callers from 8 different households), and to family in Alberta.
The children were excited for their Lord's day chocolate fondue.
Days in quarantine: 13
Cases: 110
Picture of the Day: None
We did a whole lot of nothing. Wyatt made the website for this log. Given that it's the weekend, we slept in, and the children enjoyed extra computer time.
Days in quarantine: 12
Cases: 90
Picture of the Day: musical notes
Today, we made pizza for dinner, and watched Onward.
Days in quarantine: 11
Cases: 73
Picture of the Day: rainbows
Days in quarantine: 10
Cases: 68
Picture of the Day: teddy bears
Today, Wyatt worked on some math equations. Eliška had a piano lesson. Remy begged his parents to be allowed to clean the kids toilet. We cleaned one of the Nerf guns (sand got into both of them back in the summer), and had some target practice. The children played bingo with Grammie over video chat.
Days in quarantine: 9
Cases: 51
Picture of the Day: clouds
In the last two weeks, it was beginning to look like spring but yesterday we got about 10cm of snow. The children enjoyed building snowmen in the backyard.
There was much reading, and piano lessons.
Days in quarantine: 8
Cases: 41
Picture of the Day: animals
The children played Minecraft, and their Spy game. They played outside, and went for a walk. Mama played about 20 games Uno. We said hello to Derek and Bennett from the back deck.
Days in quarantine: 7
Cases: 28
Picture of the Day: hands
We had church at home today. Our church streamed a video on YouTube.
This is the last day of March break.
Today, the Nova Scotia government declared a state of emergency. Social gatherings are now limited to 5 people, and only essential businesses are open (grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations, etc). Apparently, the government noticed a lot of people were going to the beach so all provincial parks are now closed, too.
Days in quarantine: 6
Cases: 20
Picture of the Day: socks
We had our usual Saturday pancakes for breakfast. The children enjoyed extra computer time. After lunch, we headed out to the beach for a walk. We had assumed that not many people would be out since it's so cold; but we were wrong. Both Cleveland, and Queendsland beach were crowded. We ended up going all the way to Bayswater which was doable. Still, some people weren't really trying to keep their distance. The kids had fun running in the water and getting wet. We finished up at the beach by having some hot chocolate in the car.
On the way home, we stopped at the church to help with live stream set up.
A great day! The children still seem to struggle with the idea of quarantine but we're getting there.
Days in quarantine: 5
Cases: 14
Picture of the Day: silly faces
breakfast, pom-pom animal craft, outside games, computer time, lunch, tidy up because sleepover downstairs, out for a walk (saw some silly faces), pizza for supper; watching the BFG, and sleeping downstairs
wyatt => it's boring to home
eliska, remy => having fun!
Days in quarantine: 4
Cases: 7
Picture of the Day: bees
walk outside with mama, daddy went shopping, and to the church to set up the live stream; soccer outside, got the mail, watched a show,
Wyatt's name day
scooters and bikes
talked to babicka zdenka
Days in quarantine: 3
Cases: 7
Picture of the Day: lemons
Today, the chilren and Mamma went out for a walk in the woods to explore.
The children watched Arctic Dogs. Originally, they were supposed to go see it in the movie theatre but it's closed because of the virus.
We had lots of computer time, and played games.
We enjoyed take-out for dinner to celebrate Wyatt's name day. Skip the dishes for the win!
We received an email saying that our church service will live streamed over the internet this week.
Days in quarantine: 2
Cases: 3
Picture of the Day: None
The children worked on a pom-pom craft from Grammie. They made cute turtles.
Days in quarantine: 1
Cases: 3
Picture of the Day: None
Today is the first day of March break. Remy had a doctor's appointment, and the children had a short visit with Grammie and Granddad.
Wyatt had a three-hour treasure hunt at home. His name day present was hidden somewhere in the house, and he had to follow clues to find it.
The children worked on a painting craft from Grammie.
Days in quarantine: 0
Cases: 3
Picture of the Day: None
Today, we went to church as usual. A few protective measures were put in place to help stop the spread of the virus: the offering plate wasn't passed through the pews, we didn't have coffee and snacks afterwards, etc.
Later in the day, it was announced that Nova Scotia now has three cases of the corona virus. We were the last Canadian province to have any cases.
We visited with Grammie & Granddad, and with the Campbells. Probably the last time for a while.