Quarantined - Week 5

We have been tackling our school daily. The boys get up, eat breakfast and then get to work. Casen has had more school work to do compared to Camden, which to me is a bit surprising. His teachers sent out a survey last week asking if the parents felt that their students had too much work, just the right amount or not enough. I had no problem with what Casen was doing, however it was considerable more time and effort then Camden. During his Zoom meeting Friday with his class, I heard his teacher tell them that their work load would be decreased some, but when we pulled up his agenda for the week, that was not the case. . . perhaps next week it will be different. So until then, we will plug away at the class work.

Casen during his class Zoom meeting

For the past year, off and on, I would tell Shane how much I missed having a dog. With our schedules and the boys sports, it was never a good time to add a dog to our family. Enter in the pandemic and our schedules are wide open. So last week, Shane broke down and agreed to us getting a dog now since we would be home to spend time with her and train her. We searched several different breeds, but ultimately decided on a miniature schnauzer. After searching and searching on-line, Shane came across a family near downtown Houston who had a litter that was just about ready. The owner sent us pictures and we were in love. There were two little girls who we liked the pictures of and were picking between but wanted to see their personalities in person before deciding.

On Wednesday we packed the boys up in the car and told them we were going on a drive just to get out of the house - they had no idea what we had up our sleeve. We headed downtown and stopped at the house where the puppies were. The boys were all confused. The nicest Hispanic family welcomed us into their backyard to see all the puppies. The boys finally realized we were there to pick out a puppy. There were 7 puppies in all and 3 girls we could choose from. We fell in love with the darker puppy, who was the runt. She would just sit back calmly and watch all the others. We also liked a salt and pepper one, but after seeing how sweet and calm the dark one was, we all decided on her.

Now, what to name her? On the way home we discussed a few names, however Shane already had a name in mind. . .  the boys have been learning Spanish via Duolingo and so he threw out the name Nina, since niña is girl in Spanish. Casen said, "I think it is the perfect name since niña means girl and we got her from a Spanish family!" :) So, Nina it is (just pronounced Neena). 

We are all absolutely in love with her!!!! Even Mollie, who we were concerned about, has been curious and watches her constantly. I believe she is still trying to figure her out, but at this point seems ok with her. Casen is praying that Nina will be his dog and sleep with him and just love him. Since Mollie is only nice to Camden and for some reason just does not care for Casen and still will attack him, Casen just really wants an animal that he can love on and will love him back.

Nina doing school work with the boys.

Mollie is very curious!

If you know me, you know being at home all the time is not my cup of tea. But, this time definitely allows me to do some things at home that I have been wanting to do. This week, I tackled adding cabinets to our laundry room. I have never been a fan of the open shelf above our washer and dryer due to the clutter. We use the hanging bar to hang our laundry on, so I knew I could not rid of that. Luckily, there are prefabricated cabinets which were the exact measurement I needed to fill in my space. Yay!!!!