Rain, Rain, Go Away

Rain, rain, go away, come again another –

Well, don’t come again until we are out of quarantine.

If your family is anything like mine, there is one thing your doing to kill time.

Going outside.

We walk.  We spend so much of our time walking these days that I do not even run anymore.  I’ve had an old nagging foot injury that required nightly icing after running that I’ve decided to give the old girl a rest.  A running rest at least.  The run didn’t seem necessary anymore.  I’m still getting a gazillion number of steps in a day with all our walking.

Until this rainy day.  I already fired up the treadmill this morning.  For a nice morning walk.

Thankfully, right around the time social distancing became a real thing this new Zoom thing also came into my life.  Do you know what Zoom is?  I learned a little over a week ago.

Zoom is this new video conferencing app that’s free.  Right when I was wondering if the callouses on my hands, well earned from gym time, were going to fade my gym decided to utilize Zoom.  My gym set up a class schedule and we all pop on at class time.  It’s good to see my trainers again, good to see (if not talk to) all the other familiar gym members as we workout in our homes while the trainer calls out exercises and encouragement to us.

I do the 8AM class every day.  Gives me the rest of the day to do housework, schoolwork – and walk.  Except for today.

I keep hitting refresh on the weather channel, hoping to see an hour where rain is not forecasted so we can get out.  My luck isn’t so hot.  As long as the kids can maintain an activity, maybe I’ll go hide behind a book.  Or maybe set up a puzzle. 

Before I move forward though, I took a look back.  There was definitely some fun moments this week.

Declan was in a giggle fit over one school assignment on adjectives that poked his funny bone.  Or maybe it was my reaction to the answer that caused such laughs.

I INSISTED the answer was funny because “It is impolite to call someone fat.”

Do you see what the correct answer was?  Well, my jaw dropped and off went the giggles.

We walk the park that is attached to our neighborhood.  It’s surreal to see the playground equipment roped off, as well as the basketball courts.

There’s a pond too for pretty scenery.

And a good swim for Molly.  She has gone on so many swims she smells like a pond now.  It was supposed to be bath day today for her.  Then it rained.

We also figured out a way to make the walks go faster.  Have Declan ride his scooter.

Finally, on Friday I heard Declan call out to me, “Mom!  Come get Molly!  She won’t leave me alone!” 

All I could say was, “Well, Declan – you are eating your ramen on HER bed.”

Here’s hoping for a brief break in this steady downpour day.  If not, I will just have to sing another song to get me through:

“The sun will come out….tomorrow…bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow….there’ll be sun…..”