I moved at the end of March & also caught COVID (I think I caught it in the airport - I was also already pretty sick from a sinus infection, so I was already low on resistance & stressed out). Luckily, I had the most mild case ever - I lost my smell and taste, but they came back after a week, and mainly I was just tired as could be. It's very weird to lose your sense of smell. I thought it was like, congestion can't smell, but it was like someone shut off the valve that controlled your senses. I couldn't smell perfume, couldn't smell vinegar, nothing at all.
The move was so I could help my cousins with child care for my baby cousins! They are some cute fun friends and you can see them in the foto above. They do not get a lot of screen time, which is wonderful, as we just play outside all day when the weather is willing. There is a nice creek in the neighborhood so we try to go roll around in the woods as often as possible. (I really want them to be my little feral scout troop but their parents insist they need things like haircuts. I think I also want a haircut. Hmm.) Playing with cousins as a full-time job is highly amusing and I recommend it. The eldest daughter is obsessed with Greco-Roman mythology and wants me to teach her ancient Greek (spoiler: I do not know ancient Greek). The next-oldest cousin is obsessed with Roald Dahl's The Witches and is constantly whining about wanting to be turned into a mouse. ("If I see a lady, wearing gloves in the summertime, I'm going to walk up and ask her".) The third child is very creative and makes up a lot of songs and also comes up with some very dramatic ways of escaping trouble, like doing something loud and then when a parent tells her to stop she sings "I CAN'T HEEE~AAARR YOUUUUUU!" (It never works but I appreciate her.) The baby (he is two) is a very good sport and usually when he is whiny you can snap him out of it rather fast. He likes it when you tell him you are going to roast him in the oven and/or dunk him in the toily. All in all a grand old time. School is almost out for summer, which is so wonderful, I have a lot to catch up on but it will be done soon. (iA.) Being in a household of people who do not use social media has made me realize how much it has sucked out of my life. It's super rotted and I don't want to deal with it anymore, but maybe I will just keep doing this blog and use FB and Twitter as a way of telling people I made a blog post. It's almost summer summer summertime and I just want to be running around in the sunshine and splashing in the creek.
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