Camp North End to Ourselves

A brand new restaurant opened within walking distance of our house on Friday - very unlucky timing.  As with most restaurants in Charlotte, they are doing take-away ordering in order to stay open.  We decided to walk over and check it out!  We ate, we swung, we danced on the stage.  We had planned to take the food home to eat, but it turns out we had the entire Camp North End to ourselves!  Leah and Louise was delicious and we can't wait to actually see the inside once all of this is over.

    

Camp North End!

  

Waiting outside for our food!

  

    

Never have we ever been the only people at Camp North End.

  

After dinner, we swung on the tire swings.

     

  

  

  

They usually have bands on the stage.

  

  

  

   

Harper wanted me to take pictures of her poses. 

 

  

   

  

  

 

   

  

  

   

  

   

  

   

 

  

Goodbye Camp North End!

  

Social Distancing Week 1

It sure has been an interesting week.  Between refreshing my internet browser constantly looking for updated news to trying to entertain two rug rats ALL DAY LONG, ALL WEEK LONG, it has been a whirlwind.  My hospital has canceled all our elective surgeries and rescheduled all annuals and minor problem visits until May.  Needless to say, I have luckily had a little extra time to spend at home with the kids.  It has been the only bright side to this mess.

   

Our tea party!  Harper wanted to have a tea party with peanut butter tea sandwiches and oreo cakes.  We listened to Christmas music while we sipped our peppermint tea.

  

  

    

   

Our Goose Goose and Mama Goose are back!  We have been bringing them corn daily this past week.  We are so happy they remembered us after being gone for the fall / winter!

   

   

Ethan found a new chair from which to listen to Harper's stories.

  

Alex baked home-made bread that was delicious.

    

   

It was warm enough to bring out the sprinklers too!

   

   

   

   

Christmas lights in March are now a thing.

   

We made pineapple apple juice which was fantastic!

  

Cheers!

    

   

New Ear Accessories for Little Man

Ethan's doctors decided it was time for him to get tubes in his ears after another bilateral ear infection.  The day his surgery was scheduled, I was on call and Harper had school.  We had to enlist Gigi to help us get everybody where they needed to be.  The kids were thrilled to have Gigi visit and we were thankful for the help!  I am very grateful that we could get this elective surgery in before the upcoming postponement of nonemergent surgeries. 

  

Before the gravity of the Covid situation had really settled in, we did go out for dinner Wednesday night.  The grilled cheese at Optimist Hall is the only grilled cheese both kids will eat.

     

         

   

          

No social distancing at home.

   

Our little patient did well.  Goodbye recurrent ear infections!

Fire Pit

We replaced our old fire pit today and broke it in with some backyard s'mores!  Harper and Ethan love, love, love toasted marshmallows.