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Well as we had discussed earlier when I was on a long job I setup an office situation in our master bedroom to keep the office as a playroom for Wally and Alice during the day. This was our setup when I was on a 2 week job and on my current 7 week job (where I've been promoted to producer!). This works out well because being in the back of the house keeps me a little more isolated from the noises of the family during the day and then I have my own bathroom. Ok but first lookit how cute and cozy our room is right now. After my trip to the cutest cabin for my solo retreat I came back determined to find an identical or close to it fuzzy bedspread for our bed and I love it so much. It just makes you wanna get in bed. So this seems a little odd but to keep a clear walkway, I setup the desk at the foot of the bed. This gives me a nice view out the two windows and I can see when the family sneaks in on me. The desk is teeny and just enough room for my elevated laptop situation. There'...

Well Thanksgiving came and Thanksgiving went and now it is the most wonderful time of the year! I used to pose her next to it and now she's helping me decorate it! THEY GROW UP SO FAST. Here is the kids room in all it's festive Christmas glory. I got Alice & Wally new flannel sheets from Target that are so cute. She got unicorns natch and he got dinosaurs. Here's her side.  We got a new dresser for them! With Wally now full time using a potty (PRAISE GOD) we didn't need a lower dresser as a changing table. We found a new home for the old one and now have this behemoth that holds all their PJs and all their shorts and pants that were formerly in the closet.  I dunno about you but it's not Christmas without a wreath on Darth Vader. Matt's mom made this bulb garland last year and I finally hung it in a cute way. New advent calendar.. so cute. Oh! Here is Alice's new school area. For the record this situation was bound to happen but I thought it would be yea...

AH! How is it holiday time? How is this wonderful and insane year almost over? How illuminated and in a better place am I that I referred to as 2020 as "wonderful"? Look at God. Could my enthusiasm and and general feeling of hope be about the advent season, my rise above depression, my cool new job/promotion, the results of the free and fair election that gave us Joseph Biden as president and our first female elected vice president Kamala Harris from California?! ALL OF THE ABOVE!  YES TO LIFE! YES TO STAYING IN MORE ! On the last season of the Fredrich Family show we had celebrated anniversaries, babies, and 2 birthdays. This season we've hit the high holidays. Halloween this year was different of course but in true EvY style I went a little bonkers.. maybe a LOT bonkers because this was the schedule for the day. To make up for the lack of Halloween activities I made a "Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" carnival in the driveway. This year the kids have been obsessed...

Whew, we've had a pretty big few months lately! I dunno about everyone but things feel sort of normal except that things are completely abnormal. Life goes on, we adapt, and, we celebrate.  Alice started 1st grade from the comfort of our home and via a computer on August 17 since we live in a county where the schools did not reopen in person for the fall. It's been a few months of up and downs educating a 6 year old via computer and without friends and recess. This is not the way we imagined the year would go obviously. There's so much crappiness about the whole thing. We're comforted with knowing she is healthy, safe, adaptable, and alive. We've tried a few different schedules with her to see what works and different levels of involvement. We've tried just letting her be on her own, we've tried sitting with her during her class, and now we're doing the approach of leaving the door open and listening in if she needs us and checking her work and keeping h...