I am posting this one week late, but I need to make it a separate post from Week 5. So Week 4 was Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday on Sunday, April 5th, and leading up to Easter on Sunday, April 12th. We made some palms for our front door to decorate for Palm Sunday.
Every Monday I go up to school for my virtual office hours and to record a lesson. As soon as I step foot into my classroom after walking through the eerily empty and quiet hallways, I tear up and get very emotional because I once again see the agenda on the board that was for March 16th and the notes to myself for right after spring break. We are now almost a month out from that time and it just gets sadder by the moment for all we are missing out on at school right now.
The kids finished up their Easter chalk drawing on our porch that was the only Easter decoration we put up this year at our house. I put up the painter's tape and they colored it all in with their chalk.
Besides chalk drawings we still complete lots of puzzles and go on lots of walks and bike rides.
I mowed the yard on Thursday, April 9th, and gave myself a terrible blister. I finished right before a massive storm blew in and flooded our yard.
Also on Thursday this week I found out that my 96-year-old grandmother, MawMaw, was put in Hospice. She had been falling a lot with her bad back pain and this time the fall put her into the hospital. She had an infection that they could not get rid of and thankfully decided that she needed to go to hospice and not a nursing home. If she had gone to a nursing home, she would have been quarantined for 2 weeks with no visitors and probably would have died alone. But since she went to hospice Bonnie, her niece, was able to visit her and stay with her. She played music for her and talked to her as MawMaw was put on morphine for the pain so that she could pass away peacefully. What is so sad is that we all feel that she went downhill after all this Coronavirus stuff began and her living place isolated her to her room where she couldn't socialize with or see her friends.
Friday, April 10th, was Good Friday. We went on a family bike ride and then participated in our church's Good Friday service virtually. We took communion so we had to get our own elements for the communion. We chose croutons and white sparkling grape juice. The croutons were a wee-bit too crunchy as we all took the bread and were crunching very loudly and then couldn't take the juice when he said because we were still crunching our croutons and chewing them up - lol. I got tickled and laughed so hard all night every time I thought about it.
We had a fun game of Monopoly on Saturday to finish off Holy Week. Joshua was the winner with towers on all of his properties before the game was over.
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