First half of April

Evelyn is back in action. Nathan is on his second day of being down and out. Today he doesn't seem to have a fever, and he is interested in a bit of company. Both are good signs on the road to recovery.

Matthew and I went to pick up some used shelves. We tried for a "safe pickup" and stayed outside AND wore masks...hopefully we didn't spread anything.

The next day Matthew wasn't feeling so good! He and Philip were the last two having a turn.

I spent a lot of my recovery time reorganizing things. My brain felt full of fuzz, and I'd feel full of energy (in spurts) so I cancelled school and focused on my clutter and mess. These three sections were 3 out of 6 of  my new shelves. They fit in the library perfectly. I think.

Pretty much all of our existing bookshelves still needed to be kept, as they are FULL still. The books moving onto the new shelves were all the ones laying sideways on top of the books or on the very tiptop of the shelf.

Evelyn working on another painting.

Jennifer doing some colouring.

Green grass starting to grow! And still you can see a pile of snow by the rink.

Now that the books are reorganized and relocated, they need to be reinspected.

Melanie's quilt is coming along nicely!

Since everyone recovered from covid (and all my reorganizing was done) we had no more excuses. Time to get back to schoolwork!

My students are eager to be back at work. :p

Work? Matthew, that's a computer game! And it's 10am on a Wednesday morning. Don't you think your schoolwork should get done first?

Yes, I had said I had 6 "new" shelves. This cute little corner one fit in our foyer perfectly. Like it was meant for us.

And the bigger corner shelf fit in the "piano room" even better. Because the bottom shelf has cupboard doors, and the back material was really thin material easy to open up for wires....so we have our wifi router and other rats nest of junk tucked away out of sight. And all our mementos and knickknacks are now up for display. Yay!

The playroom is turning into a greenhouse again, as is per normal in the spring.

Jennifer doing her math. She often does her work in her room, but will come down for help sometimes. Also for company. I think.

Nathan needed a photo for some other purpose. I may as well reuse it! (after all, they are getting rare)

Daniel often has to spend time in the evenings (and on Saturdays) working on math corrections. He doesn't really enjoy it, but believer or not, he will get through all his material soon. We are both looking forward to it being finished!!

Jennifer completed a skirt for herself.

The library got a lot of use...the game table was especially a hit! Nathan just uses headphones when he plays his organ at the same time as a game is going on. He says the sound is better, actually, more "organish" or something. ;)

Another rare person to have pictures of. Philip is still here. He survived covid too, and is as busy as ever.

Matthew trying to work out a computer program for his lego contraption. It is supposed to be able to climb stairs. Now that is a challenge! He didn't get it to do a full staircase, but he did get it to climb a step or two.

We'd decided to move the sewing room from upstairs to the main floor, where our school room used to be. Because we hadn't done enough reorganizing. So, clearing out and emptying the room was first.

It turns out that the old filing cabinet that was in the school room, if used with file folders is, first of all the most efficient storage place for medium sized bits of scrap fabric AND it's size and shape is ideal to put in our long line of sewing machines. This cabinet was one of the few pieced of furniture abandoned in the house when we moved in. And the other really cool piece of furniture was a sewing machine table. Just for us! Amazing!

As part of the reorg, Jennifer inherited a beanbag from Melanie, and her floor lamp. They go together, because the lamp is an unusual height. Good for bean bags. Too tall for a desktop. Too short for a regular floor lamp.

The old sewing room had become a huge disaster. And then on moving day(month?) it got even worse. It was well and truly time to sift through (and toss out! :o ) some things.

What a mess! We stacked up a heap of things for extra dramatic effect. Evelyn is hoping to have this as her very own bedroom in September. Which makes total sense as it's the biggest room and she's the smallest kid. :p  In the meantime a friend has moved in, and even though he is really tall, the room still looks really big and empty.