Wednesday’s school parade went so well — but at the same time was also so flawed — that we had to conduct our own class parade this evening.  Everyone in the class got a visit from a caravan of five teachers.  This list included one family that was inexplicably left off the route earlier in the week, and one family that was 45 seconds late getting to the end of their long driveway to see the whole school parade.

The girls made me a poster to put in my window.  It had a picture of me and it proclaimed: “Mr. Pavlik says, “Hello,  kindergarteners.”

Also on the agenda for the evening were coctails that may or may not have been made from semi-frozen school-lunch fruit punches.

Fruit punches aside, it was a good lunch haul: deconstructed tacos.

The big geranium got a big trim, and Zoe’s small vase was just the right size for the flowers we liberated.  The combination makes for a beautiful scene on a perfectly clear countertop.  That’s really all we need out of a Thursday.  That and takeout from Hop ‘n Grind.

So one may infer that the school-lunch-themed cookies from my co-workers — delivered as if they were a school lunch even though this was a homework delivery day — were well beyond what was necessary to make this one worth getting out of bed for.

The big highlight today was the elementary school staff parade some of us took part in.  There were enough cars (and enough streets to cover) that we were able to break into three separate caravans for the parade.  We were among about 10 cars in Caravan 3.  Jen drove so I could wave to the populace and take a few pictures.

Here’s some friends.

More friends (Jen seems to be swatting them with her enormous hand, but she’s really just waving.)

More here.

A lot of people who aren’t in elementary school anymore wanted to see this parade.

Even the teens these days are nuts about a parade.

“Seed 1” of the Kindergarten Seed Game project has sprouted!  I can’t tell you what it is because the kids are supposed to guess, but I have shared that this is something we plan to eat when it grows bigger.

Speaking of growing bigger, the 20+-year-old tree we bought at the church yard sale four years ago has found its way into a new vessel.  It will probably increase in size because of the move.  Then again, it could die rapidly.  I’m not great with houseplants.

Zoe and Lanie are performing a duet at Lanie’s (online) group violin lesson next week.  Today they previewed their version of the Game of Thrones Theme during Lanie’s (online) private lesson.  Ms. Louise claims to not be familiar with the song, though she’s clearly from North of the Wall.  Anyway, she says she liked their performance.

One of Zoe’s Easter gifts arrived only two days late.  It’s a game about growing bamboo for Pandas.  Long-time readers of this blog might remember that Jen and Zoe actually visited an actual Panda Preserve with actual pandas in honest-to-goodness China about a year ago to this very day.  Lanie and I have no chance of ever winning this game.

It’s actually three loaves baked into one.

Check out this big loaf of bread I made.  That’s what happens when you can find flour.  Tomorrow we’ll have sandwiches with leftover Easter ham.  Today, we had it with lentil soup.  Hats off to Catherine Newman, who gave us both the bread and the soup recipes via her blog (it’s also great for board game recommendations).

Speaking of games, today there was another round of Patchwork that Daisy had to try not to upset with her pouncing feet.

This was the first Easter in more than 20 years that Jen and I spent in our own home.  This was such a special occasion that even the Easter Bunny himself gave us a drive-by wave.

It turns out that Easter in New Hampshire has many of the things we’re used to doing when we go to Massachusetts:

An egg hunt!

Easter baskets!

Coloring eggs!

Just Dance tournament!

Ham dinner!

Cupcake decorating!

That Wii was a great purchase.  We’ve had it for at least 10 years and it still keeps us entertained.  We may not be at the forefront of console gaming, but no one seemed to mind during today’s MarioKart tournament,

When we weren’t racing, we did these things:

Practiced for the next Quarantine Concert Series installment

Terraformed Mars

Invented lasagnadelli

Not many things happened today that we haven’t showed on past Sequestration days, but I did get my picture taken at work and it did wind up on the school web page.  That was exciting.

Also today:

Lanie got sneakers in the mail. (she was expecting purple, but she had forgotten that purple was not in stock so we ordered grey. The confusion shown here was quickly solved.)

Crunchy bean street tacos for dinner!

This week has been marked by increasingly calming news.  A few days ago we starting hearing less gloomy health forecasts.  Today we discovered that getting to the grocery story before 8 am improves our chances of finding the things we’re looking for.   Check out that picture above.  Note the all-purpose flour and toilet paper.

We were also able to find white eggs, just in time for coloring them for Easter.

The cats are fine,

A day that starts that well is bound to be filled with good stuff:

It was rainy and a little chilly this afternoon.

Takeout was a day early this week for some reason.

Zoe’s almost finished with her pottery project.

Jen’s still measuring out cloth for masks.

We’ve been getting school lunches and breakfasts this week.  Here is two days’ worth for three girls (see featured image above).  That’s right, 12 cartons of milk.  And canned peaches! How lucky are our girls?

Also in the works today:

I tried to convince kindergarteners that marshmallows grow on trees.

We had a church board meeting.

Tomato soup and grilled cheese for dinner.