Social Distancing Diaries: Day 82

Dear Diary

Looks like I set up the pool just in time! I finished filling it this morning and Lily spent a good amount of time in it this afternoon. Oops, she forgot the sunscreen!

My Water Bug was in her element despite the frigid water temperature!

We went on our last school lunch run today. I guess Eden and Lily will now have to get used to PB&J and grilled cheese!*  They certainly won’t be getting the variety they’ve been accustomed to since March! We encountered the torrential downpour as we drove home. We waited it out in the car in our driveway. Eden and Lily played “The Floor is Lava!” in the car. That was interesting. Last evening we discovered that Lily’s Chrome book wouldn’t charge. I don’t know how it timed it’s death so perfectly. She had finished all her Zooms earlier in the day. I shot off a quick email to the efficient and responsive tech support team for the district and picked up a new one for her when we went on our lunch run. Tech support deserves a shout out too! I think we’ve had 3 problems with malfunctioning Chrome books since we began online schooling and each time the response was swift (and resulted in a new Chrome book). I’m sure they were working overtime this spring!

Lily made this smoothie this morning and, despite it’s color, it was actually good! Banana, apple, spinach, lettuce, strawberries, apple juice. Weird.

I was reminded today that I never revealed the Myers-Briggs personality types that you were guessing at. I said that Tom and I are opposite in all but one category. He is an ENTJ and I am an ISFJ. Does that mean we’re good at making decisions?? Despite what some may think, he’s not an overwhelming Extrovert. He’s closer to the middle there. I’m pretty much the textbook definition of ISFJ. Hayley came out ISFJ too, though not as strong in the categories as I am. What’s interesting is that from a very young age I thought Hayley was the child that was closest to my personality. I felt like I knew how her mind worked (Sorry, Hayley! You might not want to know that!). Maybe Myers-Briggs explains that! Ellen is INFJ. She’s pretty textbook too. Later we gave the quiz to Eden and she scored ESFJ. Eden never has the patience to take personality quizzes, so we rushed through this one and frankly, some of the questions were confusing. So I wouldn’t stake my life on her results, but some of the description does describe her. If you’re interested in our Enneagram numbers, here they are: Tom=8, Theresa=9 (yup, that can make me uncomfortable!), Hayley and Ellen are both 2’s, Eden we think is 6, and Lily is 4. If these things interest you, have fun with that!

*Have you tried grilled PB&J?? Do it!