Resilience

I am so thankful for how resilient our children are. They have been troopers the past couple of months, easily adapting to a fluid situation. Things are different, but the kids are happy and are enjoying each others' company, and they really like having Nathan and I around more. I have been thinking about this a lot this week, and sometimes I wish I could be as resilient and easy going as our children are.  I am grateful to have them as an example to teach me every day, and I am so thankful and blessed that God chose me to be their mom. On Mother's Day, I received sweet handmade cards from Nathan and the kids, and some pretty flowers they picked from a neighborhood walk. We did school during the day and played in the afternoon. It was a good day:).

I treated myself to a haircut and hair dye at a local salon. It had been almost 6 months since my last haircut and it was needed. We have to wear masks and gloves to enter places, and all the workers were wearing masks and face shields. Aside from visits to the grocery store and going to work, this was my first visit somewhere in a couple of months.

Another treat is that the Embassy recently starting allowing families to use the common spaces  on a sign-up basis. Only one family can use the soccer field or tennis court at a time, for 1/2 hour slot. The last couple of weeks we have been able to use both areas for an hour each, and the boys have really enjoyed it! One week Nathan walked to the Embassy with the boys after school so they got a lot of energy out that day. The boys just finished their 9th week of online learning, and Tuesday of next week will be their last day of school. Here we come, summer! 

Eliza and Tes take a lot of afternoon walks and she loves being in the stroller and jabbering about everything she sees. 

More fort fun. It's a daily thing here, and sometimes on the weekends they can sleep in the fort.

This week they increased the evening curfew from 6pm to 7pm. They must have been getting tired of all the curfew violators right before the sirens went off. Police were out every night pulling people over out past curfew, yet every day following, the traffic seemed the same?!

Another roadblock just a few minutes after the sirens.

A friend sent us pictures of an epidemiological team at our neighborhood grocery store the other afternoon, conducting random testing. 

We have explored many fields in the neighborhood and typically take walks before and after school. The mornings the boys can ride bikes, but  in the afternoon there are way too many cars on the road. We are still on the even/odd license plate driving policy, but for some reason it seems like more cars than normal are still out because they can be.

Hope everyone is doing well and able to get outside to enjoy the springtime!