Post Easter life feels strangely normal now. Well, normal for pandemic life. Normal for having our kids home 24-7 without any extra-curricular activities. Normal for holding school-from-home for a first grader learning to read in German and a fourth grader concluding the last weeks of his grade school career before switching schools to the next Austrian school - Gymnasium. Normal for said first and fourth graders having only each other and us as playmates. Strangely, we are doing well with it now. We expect quite little from ourselves and our kids as far as productivity, and we are impressed when we have productive moments and even days and weeks. We enjoy lots of time together and outside. We break up a lot of sibling bickering. And we experience lots of moments like this:
We finally purchased our Christmas gift to ourselves, a grill! Wahoo!
And our grocery store had garden arches on clearance, something we have been wanting to add to our yard for a year now!
I attempted a no-yeast Irish bread, which wasn't bad accept the dough was too dry with the gluten-free flour. Next time (if there is one), I will add more milk and maybe an egg.
We spent our first ''free'' Saturday morning (no more restrictions on our reasons for going out) going to the hardware store to purchase window boxes and plants and flowers to fill them. Eva chose pink, purple, and white flowers. Nathanael chose rosemary and lavender. Without a car, this is how we take things home from the store!
Our home is looking a bit less sterile with the added greenery.
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