Our schools have been shut down since March 17th and will be until the end of the school year.
Baseball season is non existent in our personal life and our MLB life. Bradley continues to run
an essential business. Bradley's dad is in Portland Oregon fighting brain cancer, the most
aggressive type known to mankind. Playdates and visits have been replaced with
Zoom/GoogleMeets and baseball practice relies on two brothers to get along.
There's a lot of uncertainty, fear, and finding toilet paper is a true issue.
However, there's momentum.
However, there's momentum.
Stimulus: A thing that rouses activity or energy in someone or something; a spur or incentive.
I'm not just talking about Trump's package slated to hit our pocketbooks mid-month.
I'm talking about the things that we are doing created by the energy within us, pulling us closer
to our homes, to our families, to our values.
We've taken this time to teach the boys new things by focusing on CTE or Career and
Technical Education Courses. In fact, we've opened enrollment for the Summer 2020 term.
Carter and Miles both enjoy the heck out of welding and their skills have come in handy with
dumpsters and fences. Carter has been invaluable with his tractor driving ability on a daily basis
on Terry’s old tractor. (It’s not an automatic either!)
We have always made it a habit to sit down to the dinner table together,
but there's something different about enjoying more than one meal together a day.
A meal that all hands helped prepare, not just mom's.
There's been a stimulus to do the regular cleaning and organizing. I've gone through all of the
old T-ball and Little League shirts to send off to make into quilts. We've dusted shelves, cleaned
out light fixtures, and even organized our sock drawers.
Getting back to our historical roots, we introduced the kids to a VCR and have had many laughs
looking over VHS tapes. Miles is pretty in tune with this technology because of his frequent
walkman use. We may go over DVDs next week as part of our social studies distance learning
lesson.
lesson.
Carter is driven to be prepared for when and if baseball season returns and completes and
designs workouts for he and his brother to do.
For added entertainment they've set up a disc golf course in the backyard. This has given the
Easter Bunny incentive to bring a few portable cages to the Isbell Homestead this Easter Sunday.
Nothing says Christ has risen, quite like a competitive game of disc golf.
Not able to connect with students every day, I've taken to recording bedtime stories. I've been
inspired to keep this up based on the student and community responses. They get posted to
Facebook and then emailed to each student. I've even been spurred on to utilize the GoPro
Not many views on this platform, but several videos have over 5K views on Facebook alone.
I've been inspired to share on this blogging platform again and am working to finish a blanket
I began crocheting months ago. In light of my regular office hours, I seem to be enjoying running
again. Probably because it doesn't have to happen at 5am and can take my partners. I am toying
with the idea of training for another marathon. Who knows when and if runners will ever gather in
masses again (I can't imagine the idea of touching all of those cups), but one can be inspired right?
There may not be a County Fair, but our fair pigs on coming to the Isbell Homestead this week.
The boys have made sure the pens are ready, feed is ordered, and shavings are ready.
When we bought our house 11 years ago, President Obama gave 1st time homebuyers an
economic stimulus check. We used it at the time to buy furniture, mostly bedroom furniture.
Our accountant told us this week that we would receive President Trump's stimulus check.
You know what we are doing with his stimulus? New fences around the garden and strengthening
existing sections of fence around the property. One might say we were inspired to build our own walls.
I don't care what political party you subscribe to, the irony between our use of the two stimulus
packages is humorous.
I don't care what political party you subscribe to, the irony between our use of the two stimulus
packages is humorous.
Evaluate your own stimulus in response to COVID-19. If you need inspiration, take your check
with you to Lowe's - I'm sure you can find some fencing supplies.
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