One Sentence A Day: January 2021

January 2021 started with our whole province in a lock down and ended with our province in an even stricter lock down. Yay?!?

1 - Friday -- We had a fun brunch with mimosas for all, watched the movie Soul on Disney+, and I walked over 12km (7.5 miles).

2 - Saturday -- I baked buns and we went for a winter walk to the library and ran into a few people on the path.

3 - Sunday -- We cleaned up all the Christmas and Channukah things, watched a few Hallmark movies, and did some shoveling.

4 - Monday -- I got to work in the school and it was so quiet -- only four people in the whole building.

5 - Tuesday -- This was one of the busier days I've worked and I felt like I was two tasks behind all day long.

6 - Wednesday -- I watched the news for basically seven hours straight trying to take in what I was seeing and what had happened.

7 - Thursday -- We had our first take out and family game night and it was pretty fun. (More sentences: Also, the province announced that our kids would continue remote learning for two more weeks. Ugh.)

8 - Friday -- I went to bed at 7pm.

9 - Saturday -- We went on an errand-y walk and made snowmen pizza for supper.

10 - Sunday -- We enjoyed making stained glass cookies this day -- a fun project for the whole family!

11 - Monday -- I finally got our family calendar done for January and I painted my toenails.

12 - Tuesday -- They demolished the back half of the house next door to us and our province was put into a state of emergency.

13 - Wednesday -- Rachel threw her comfort bag down the stairs and it exploded, sending a mess of beads everywhere and causing her much heartbreak.

14 - Thursday -- A stricter lock down began for our province this day.

15 - Friday -- I worked from home, we had a snowy/rainy walk to the library, and we ate strawberry ice cream.

I enjoyed getting a chance to see Rachel doing some of her schoolwork!

16 - Saturday -- We went on a really fun winter hike.

17 - Sunday -- Happy Birthday Dave!!!

18 - Monday -- I did a lot of photocopying at work today and finished my book club book in the evening.

19 - Tuesday -- I woke up at 5am to get my workout in and felt so accomplished when it was done by 6:30am!

20 - Wednesday -- Everyone got out of the house today for a walk and Sam and Rachel enjoyed playing on the big snow pile in the Wal-Mart parking lot.

21 - Thursday -- Continued school closures (until at least February 10th) were announced so we made some changes to our schedule, including enforced daily outside time.

Also a man from our church brought us a fresh made apple pie this day to support us during our time of online learning.

22 - Friday -- The kids were off school but Dave and I both had to work so it was an interesting day of balancing work and kids.

23 - Saturday -- I read an entire book this day (it was really good) and we enjoyed our church's virtual winter retreat evening of playing games and visiting.

24 - Sunday -- Rachel and I completed an entire puzzle this morning.

25 - Monday -- I was waiting for Covid test results so the kids and I played in the back yard this afternoon.

26 - Tuesday -- My results eventually came back (negative - yay!) and we shoveled a lot of snow.

27 - Wednesday -- I taught Rachel how to make the chocolate cake I made when I was a kid for Chocolate Cake Day!

28 - Thursday -- The sun was shining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

29 - Friday -- It was a bit of an up and down day and in the evening we went for a walk to the library where we made penguin snow sculptures.

30 - Saturday -- We went for quite a long walk today to get croissants for Croissant Day!

31 - Sunday -- I did groceries, a workout video, and had a "spa day afternoon few hours" with Rachel.