My Final Day Home

Today was Friday, but it was also my last day that I have off of work for the Corona Virus. Starting Monday, I will be back to work everyday, every week.  Today, I just want to reflect on how I used this time to remind future Dallas how I spent my months at home.

-- Twins were born!  This is of course on the top of the list.  I had been home about 2.5 months when they came.  It is a good thing I was at home before during and after this event.  It was crazy even without having to go to work.  Olive and Mabel arrived on May 21, 2020 late at night.  An experience I will never forget ( and hopefully write about in a future post)

-- Completed a very long list of home projects including: painting a bathroom, fixing a deck, fixed up and painted a table, and many little things. In this picture you can see the deck and the table I painted

-- I grew a tomato garden.  In the end, it was horrible. But if was fun to try and it was my first attempt.  Next year will be better. 

-- I taught myself C++ through various online courses and completed some neat project using the language. 

-- Took 10 day trip to Utah with 5 Children 5 and under.  This felt like an accomplishment. It was not easy.  But we made it there and back and none of the children got left. 

--Bought a Kindle and read ALL of the unabridged Count of Monte Cristo.  This book is super long, it took months! 

-- Ran almost everyday, and learned  a lot of Spanish and practiced some violin and guitar and piano

This list doesn't seem super long, but the best thing I was able to do with my time was spend a lot of time with my kids.  It has been fun for me to do a lot of "Daddy Daughter" dates with my girls. This is usually something like going for a walk or going to home depot with me.  The girls always loved going.  I am a little sad I probably won't have as much time for this in the future...