#VoluntaryIsolation Day 1: Little Feet is "doing library" (his school day starts with specials) and I dropped Big Feet's board off at the science fair. I also emailed the superintendent & school board asking them to pull their heads out their butts.

Still Day 1: Big Feet is teaching Little Feet math.

#VoluntaryIsolation Day 2 berry muffins, Shoots and Ladders, and both kids flexing their math muscles with http://aleks.com 

Day 3. Little Feet spent all day playing Pokemon, Big Feet playing Minecraft (until husband remotely shut down the computer, now he's playing Amazing Grace on his trombone). Home made pizza for dinner: kids asked if we can eat it more often.

Day 4: My neighborhood seems to be as active as ever for a chilly Sunday.

Day 5: I just picked up 115 dog turds and didn't even make it half way around the yard. Imma spare you a photo.

Day 6: Slept in, worked between warring kids, went on a family bike ride, and making beans and rice for dinner. Gotta get the kids to leave us alone somehow amirite?

Still Day 6, Day 2 of the schools being closed for everyone else, and the local middle school social media manager had a little oopsie.

Day 7: The small one finally got to talk to a friend. He & his mom rode down our street and said hello, then we rode past their house and hung out at 20+ ft distance. Then we went to our park and kicked a soccer ball.

Day 8: Little Feet gets to video chat with his friends and my house is full of giggles again. Big Feet figures out the right time of day to play the trombone. We get a new garage door. Our installer had open heart surgery 6 months ago. We're keeping our distance.

Day 9: We're gonna need a bigger bread machine. Loaf 1 of 2 only lasted 5 minutes. Also: binge watching @britishbakeoff and having @paulhollywood in my head = first successful brown bread loaf. #StayHomeSaveLives

Day 10: I didn't take any pictures, but I picked up the rest of the dog shit, husband built the desk his dad gave him for Christmas in 2018, I folded a lot of laundry, the large child played the piano & guitar, and the small one video chatted with his buddy for 7 hours. #StayHome

Day 11: If the world seems uncertain, allow me to remind you that the basics never change.

Day 12: This is going to be an adventure.

Day 13: We took a family stroll into the river. There was a dragon cloud in the sky and I managed to get all four of us on camera (in two photos). Also rode bikes to visit friends from 10 ft--LF's other buddy's little bro turned 6 today--and ate home-made pizza again.

Day 14: Children had a major fisticuffs over cleaning their bathroom, followed by a teenage fit if narcissism. Is it too early to start in on the bourbon? #StayAtHomeSaveLives #ItsAfter5Somewhere

Day 15: Daddy disabled Big Feet's computer last night and suddenly he has dragged himself out of bed to play videogames with his little bro.

Day 16: We have a 3,000 sf house and they gotta sit on top of me when I'm trying to work? I'm going for a solo bike ride.

Still Day 16 and we only just broke the seal on the ice-cream. I feel like I've won social isolation.

Day 17: Yard work. Little Feet on pinecone duty, Big Feet on the mower, Inja on rolling in the grass and me on weeding. A before & after.

Day 18: Had a hard time dragging my ass off the couch, but got it together to take a walk to visit Little Feet's buddy. She kept her 6' vertically. #IsolationLife

Day 19: Our school district is ramping up eLearning and I woke up to an email from the band teacher assigning my kid Coldplay to listen to.

Also, I slept through a 7am meeting. Who schedules meetings for 7am on a Monday? Unless they were HOPING I'd sleep through?

Day 20: I guess we still like each other.

Day 21: A 5 hour conference call followed by a socially-distant 7.5mi bike ride with a friend.

Day 22: Soccer drills from coach. In PJs. Wearing a horse costume. Eating sugar snap peas. #IsolationPremierLeague

Day 23: An overdue reminder that I have the worst children. And these delightful shots are from before Little Feet got frustrated with his brifters and took it out on me. #FamilyBikeRide #IsolationInspiration

Day 24: Those awful children from yesterday woke me up to tell me the dog pooped on the kitchen floor. The three of them my find themselves in my front yard later wearing "FREE" signs.

We went on a 10 mile bike ride (with another family, keeping our distance) instead and stopped by and distantly chatted with 3 friends along the way home.