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23 March 2020


Isolation Day 1: Upon embarking on a new work-from-home life today, the kids will stay home too. Surely the magic of their youthful curiosity and our familial love and patience will carry us through, no problem. ⁣

But if, on the off chance that after 5 seconds there are harmonized duets of 🎼🎀 “I’m bored” 🎢 🎡 and 🎢“Mooommm, s/he did the swear finger to meeeee!”🎢🎡, I have some prompts. ⁣

Things I want to learn learn 🧠⁣

Projects I want to do πŸ”¨ ⁣

Things I want to organize/clean 🧹 ⁣

Businesses we want to support πŸ‘©‍🌾⁣

Guess which paper is going to remain alarmingly empty?


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