On April 10th we participated in the world-wide prayer and fasting to overcome the effects of coronavirus and return to normal life faster. This was an amazing experience because so many people around the world with different religious backgrounds put aside their differences and united in one goal. If we could only do that all the time, put aside our differences and unite, our lives would be so much better. Two days later we celebrated Easter, a time to remember our Savior, Jesus Christ, and a time for hope and new beginnings. I have a lot of hope.
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| Our usual Easter breakfast. |
The kids asked to do an egg hunt (I thought they were getting to big for this but I guess I was wrong). Since we have a small enough apartment and not very many places to hide eggs, they thought they could be done in 5 minutes. Well, well, well ... not if your Easter Bunny is your mother on a mission to make life (or egg hunt in this case) difficult for everybody involved. I made a rule that each girl could only pick eggs of different colors (there were 8 different colors). If they found an egg of a color they already have, they had to put it back. The first one to find all 8 different colors got a prize. And then I hid the eggs in "plain sight". It took the kids over an hour to find them. Here is why...
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| A seemingly ordinary plant. |
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| But if you look closer, it's a plant bearing an egg. I did a similar thing with other colors like putting an orange egg in a bowl with mandarins or putting a pink egg to stick out of a pocket of a pink shirt. This mama rocks! |
Our twins turned 12 in April. I wanted to have a birthday party for them with their friends but the world decided to collapse, and so we ended up celebrating their birthday the usual way - with just our family. They asked for Angel Food Cake for breakfast which I totally made from scratch and Chicken Tenders and Biscuits for dinner made by Spencer and coleslaw made by me. We thought that they wouldn't get any presents but money because all non-food stores were closed but Nika and Lina found some cute umbrellas in Ramstore (Turkish chain of grocery stores), and the twins were very happy with them!
During quarantine, nobody could go outside except for grocery shopping, going to a pharmacy, or walking a dog. Since we have a dog we took that opportunity to take kids outside to get some sunshine. For the first few weeks we could only take one kid at a time, so our dog got 4 walks a day! She was happy. We also had to alternate parents, so both of us would get some sunshine. Spring came really early this year, and the weather turned to warm and even hot very quickly.
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| Lexa walking Yuki with me. |
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| Towards the end of April we took kids out two at a time. Here are Sophie and Lexa walking Yuki with me (or Yuki walking Sophie and Lexa with me, depending on who is telling the story). |
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| We have a very nice pond on campus. Unfortunately the management company wasn't taking care of it and by the end of May it completely dried up. |
Here is a couple of random pictures from our quarantine time doing ordinary things.
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| Lexa practicing her guitar and ... I guess freezing? |
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| Reading books. Here is Lexa reading a book by Dan Haring, Spencer's friend from school. |
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| Girls made me an Angel Food Cake for breakfast for Mother's Day |
For my Mother's Day present I wanted to get some family pictures done and I wanted my people to not look like they don't love taking pictures! And they delivered!
It was too windy to take family pictures outside on Mother's Day but the next day the weather was beautiful! We went around our campus to a couple of our favorite spots and had fun. And nobody objected as promised! Here are some shots from the day!
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