Yikes. I can’t even believe I have not updated this thing since August! Even for me, that’s bad. But what better time to do it than now, when all I have is time on my hands! Well, actually now with added schooling for Jeremiah and Hope (and keeping Norah busy 😑) I feel like I have LESS free time, but still, who am I kidding! I have plenty of time!
So, looking back at my last post, Jeremiah had just started school, 4th grade! It almost makes me weep to look back at that post and the pictures of our fun summer and spending time with family.... how we took advantage of being able to do those simple, normal things. I long to go back to those days!! I don’t know if it’s the right thing to pray for, but I do pray that things can get back to normal soon. Mostly for the sake of our kids- I want Hope to be able to go back to pre-school which she loves SO MUCH, I want Jeremiah to be able to get back to 4th grade to his friends and teachers (who do SUCH a better job teaching him than I am!). I want to be busy on Saturdays going to soccer games. I want Norah to be able to go back to her 2 happy places- church and the library! I know we will get there eventually, so we will continue to do our part by staying home. 🏡 But this sure isn’t easy!
So anyway, here’s a review of our activities since mid-August. 😬
LATE AUGUST
The Touch-a-Truck event at Clinton Municipal Airport!
Jeremiah took an actual ride in this teeny tiny plane, and I can honestly not even believe I let him do that 😳🛩
August 27- Hope started pre-school at Prince of Peace!
She's old enough to have a locker 😢
Norah thought she should go, too!
SEPTEMBER
Labor Day weekend we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Wiers in Wisconsin!
Milwaukee County Zoo- ❤️
A visit to our favorite park by Grandma and Grandpa’s house
And of course- reading books!
Mornings at home with the girls 💞
Hope had picture day at school!
And of course soccer season! ⚽️
OCTOBER
Soccer season continued- chilly games for the poor little super fan!
Hope had a field trip to the pumpkin patch 🎃 and Daddy went along 🧡
Hope turned 5 on Oct 24!!! 🎉🎈🎁
Pedicure with Mom 💅🏻
Trying to get a good Christmas card picture 🥴
And of course, Halloween! 🎃👻
2 Moana’s and a red Star Wars guy.
NOVEMBER
We took a little drive to South Holland, IL to visit Auntie Abby, Uncle Neil, Duncan, and to meet new cousin Quinn (born in September)! And we got to see their new house!
President’s Day/Grandparents Day SNOW DAY ❄️😫
Grandma and Grandpa came, but then went back home- so sad! Good thing it’s rescheduled for April 20! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I guess it’s just not meant to be this year.
We put up our Christmas tree 🎄
“Put the ornaments on the tree” 👍🏻
Thanksgiving in Wisconsin
The highlight for the girls was seeing Frozen 2 in the theater ❄️
Norah was not quiet 😬
Trying to get a good picture with Grandma and Grandpa 🤦🏼♀️
That’s better!
DECEMBER
Lyon’s District Christmas Walk and the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train! 🎄🚂
Church and school Christmas programs ❤️
Never one to be left out!
Christmas jammies before going to see Christmas lights! 🎄
Christmas cookie decorating with Hope at preschool 🎄
Adam’s birthday was the 17th! I have no pictures 🤷🏼♀️
We did our own little family Christmas on December 22
New boots! Jeremiah is too tall.
Stockings! I have no idea why Norah was crying 🤷🏼♀️
Christmas with the Wiers side on actual Christmas Eve and Christmas Day ❤️
We did a lot while we were there! Christmas Eve candlelight service, present opening, ladies trip to Cedarburg! 😍
Best 9 Instagram pics of 2019 ❤️
JANUARY
Just me and this one while Hope is at school in the afternoons 😊
We took another day trip to Chicago for baby Quinn’s baptism ✝️
Princess Rapunzel came to live at our house 👑
It was cold 🥶🥶🥶
FEBRUARY
I caucused 👍🏻✔️
Hope got to be the “Tiny Teacher” at school. She had basically been waiting for this moment her whole entire life!
Twinsies! 👯♀️
Hope got to go to Kindergarten Round-Up at Unity! Can’t believe she’ll be in school full days next year! 😢
Hope also had Special Visitors Day at preschool and they made Valentine boxes! Grandma and Grandpa came from WI for the occasion ❣️
❤️ Valentines Day ❤️
Jeremiah’s epic John Deere valentines box 🚜
On the 15th we took Jeremiah and a few friends to Helium trampoline park to celebrate his birthday! 🎉
They had a blast!!
On February 18, Jeremiah turned 10! 🎉🎈🎁 A whole decade!!
I had a hair appointment 💇🏼♀️ 💁🏼♀️
The girls went for a car ride 🚗
MARCH
Reading with Daddy ❤️📚
We had Hope’s parent teacher conference- we are SO proud of her!!
Norah was thrilled that the weather warmed up for playing on the playground after school! (We miss that so much!!! 😭)
March 13 was basically our last day of normalcy. That day was when IL governor first closed the schools starting the following week. The evening of the 13th they still held Jeremiah’s spring music program- the older kids did a cute musical called “Souls on Fire” 🔥
Not a great pic, but how cute are they as firefighters?! 🧑🏻🚒🚒
And thus began our time of quarantine/shutdown/whatever you want to call it due to the Coronavirus (someday I’ll want to look back and remember this time, right?!?)
How have we been spending our time?
St Patty’s Day 🍀
Dressed up to go nowhere.
One of my first trips for groceries after the craziness began. 🛒
It was crazy. But Easter candy was fully stocked! We struggled a bit for TP, but eventually did find some and now it seems our stores are getting it stocked a bit. Who knew I’d ever be excited turning down the TP aisle at HyVee?! 🧻
School at home!! 📓✏️🖍
My most challenging student (and I don’t even have to teach her!) 🤔
Sidewalk chalk!
Annoying the dog 🤣🐶
Making the monkey Wissink family 🙈
Lots of walks by the Mississippi! Sometimes the Iowa side, sometimes the Illinois side just to be crazy. 🤪 I am just so thankful for nice weather for walks and playing outside!! ☀️
Iowa
Illinois
Seeing Grandma, Grandpa, aunts, uncles, and cousins on ZOOM! ❤️
So thankful for technology!!
Cutting Jeremiah’s hair, because why the heck not, right?! 🤣
Adam’s job at John Deere is designated as essential so we are super thankful that he is working. He is working a staggered shift, a shift later than he normally would go in, so most days he’s not home from work till after 6. Trying to remind ourselves this is just temporary! But I’m not going to lie, it’s been rough transitioning to this Stay At Home All The Time life and then Adam not getting home till almost bedtime. And it’s hard not knowing when this will ever come to an end! One of the first days of this, Hope was begging me to sing the echo to a song they had sung in church earlier in March- “This is the Day.” And quite honestly, I didn’t want to sing it! It was all just feeling like too much! But I came to realize that it really is a great reminder and I try to wake up every morning with this thought, no matter what the day might bring!
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