#RedeemingTheQuarantine: March 29th, 2020

#RedeemingTheQuarantine:
Two excellent sermons, a workout, time with Jesus, pizzas and a movie, and Social Distancing meme nonsense. Sounds like a great day to me!

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#RedeemingTheQuarantine: March 27, 2020

#RedeemingTheQuarantine:
While New Mexico has only been on official stay at home orders since Tuesday, March 23rd, (4 days ago, we've already been at home for 2 weeks. For the past several days, a very blasé, let’s-sleep-in-because-who-cares attitude has reigned supreme. I woke up today ready to face this quarantine head on with renewed determination to not waste this time.
So, I got a workout in. I spent some time with Jesus. I cleaned the kitchen approximately 42 times (Hercules and Slick are snackers/grazers). Dan and I planted a small victory garden. I took a little drive around town with Hercules. I read. I destroyed my manicure. I talked to most of my people. Hercules and I watched Zumba’s Just Desserts and laughed together. I did some work-related things with Jodi via Zoom. My mom sent me some childhood photos of me. I ordered a phone/camera tripod so that we could try next week to host Game Night via Skype. I cleared off 4 “Flat Surface Areas” and pushed some furniture around. Enjoyed a BLT on homemade bread for dinner...take THAT Quarantine-Induced Pantry Challenge. 😉 Overall, not a bad day at all.
And now, it’s 10:30pm and Hercules went to pick up something from a friend “real quick”....3 hours ago, so I’m taking this tired body and my raggedy nails and going to bed. 

How are you coping, friends? 

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#RedeemingTheQuarantine: March 20, 2020

#RedeemingTheQuarantine:
What did you today so that your brain doesn’t fall out and to keep yourself from going stir-crazy? 

I read in Sahara and another book, worked out (WiiFit is super), did the last shopping trip, and scored some toilet paper, read the news, talked or texted with my people, delivered groceries to my quarantined Sister-Girl, hollered at The BIGS to stay home for the love of humanity, made disinfecting reusable wipes, caught up on laundry and dishes, disinfected all the door handles and light switches in the house, snickered at some hilarious memes and in general tried to stay busy.
How about you? 

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#RedeemingTheQuarantine: March 18, 2020

#RedeemingTheQuarantine 

I’m currently curled up in bed with a good book, some homemade Chex Mix, and Pandora is playing my favorite station. I’m enjoying having more time to read. In fact, I am currently 2 books ahead of schedule for my reading goals this year. 

What are you doing with your “extra” time at home? 

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#RedeemingTheQuarantine: March 15, 2020

#RedeemingTheQuarantine: 

Making spice mixes, tidying and taking stock of the pantry, sharing links to educational activities and websites, heard a great sermon by Pastor Roy, hole-punching and filing my recently printed recipes, and Chex Mix is about to come out of the oven. Yes, it has already been a great day. 

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Quarantine Goals

 It seems we’re all going to have a little extra free time in the next few days. What are you doing with it? As with most things, this girl needs a plan. Mostly so that I don’t just mindlessly binge watch Netflix while I snack myself straight into diabetes. Also, a plan helps me feel more like I’m in control of something, and if you know any of the Smith girls, you know we all enjoy the illusion of control. LOL! So here’s a few things I put on my to do list to give some order to my days and so that when this nonsense is over and someone asks me what I did while I was at home for a week, I’ll have something more to say then, “I dunno...nothing.”

Quarantine Goals:

•Put together 7 Wonders Box Organizer

•Learn to play both expansions for 7 Wonders

•Play a Game together every day

•Read a book for every 2 days that we are home, including Sahara, that arrived in my mailbox today.

•Not contribute to mass panic, despair, or dismay but to bring cheer and reassurance to all those I “see” online..

•Stay hydrated, get some sun, eat my veggies and supplements each day, and stay on my regular sleeping schedule.

•Post on IG and FB each day, and perhaps take up blogging again.

•Sing, Praise, Worship, and read my Bible every day.

•Try a new recipe, or 3.

•Do a small workout each day: WiiFit, take a walk, have a dance party, lift weights, do some yard work, whatever.

•Catch up on the latest quarterly issue of Simplify Magazine.

•Re-Pot my plants that have grown over the winter.

•Deep clean or declutter one room each day.

•Homeschool Lite with DT: Khan and Reading each day plus memorization practice.

•Do 1 load of laundry, 1 load of dishes, and swish and swipe 1 bathroom each day.

•Stay in contact with my people and make adjustments as necessary to meet their needs.

•Hang out with Hercules when he is around.

•Work at the office as needed.

Do you have any quarantine goals? Share them here

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