Family Fun in Lockdown

Yesterday was my youngest son's birthday.  We now have 3 teenagers!  He was supposed to have gone to a CAVS game with his Dad (he had won pretty awesome seats at a basketball camp last summer).  But instead, we were all at home.  He has had a great attitude.  Besides getting to pick what we ate all day, he decided our dinner was going to have a "twist".  Eating spaghetti, but no hands allowed!  It definitely turned an ordinary meal into something we will all remember.  And we now have more empathy for our dog, who eats with no hands every day.

One thing that Brady has been really into lately is Rubik's cubes.  He has many different varieties and can solve the basic 3x3 in under 20 seconds.  Blows my mind!  Since I suddenly have all this time on my hands, I decided that I'm going to let him teach me something that he loves.  My brain isn't as quick as it used to be, so I'm only doing it one step at a time.  Once I get comfortable with that, I have him teach me the next one.  By next week I may have solved my first Rubik's cube 😁

But the most fun we've had is with our family project!  It started out as an idea to record a song.  Ever since being in a quartet at church this Christmas, Jeremy and Jacob have wanted to find another song to sing.  So we decided to look for a quartet and record it, each of them singing two parts.  (It works perfectly that my son has a lower singing voice than his Dad).  I found one of my favorite quartet songs, For the Longest Time by Billy Joel.  Then this idea came to me to re-write the words and make it a parody....since we were going to be stuck at home "for the longest time".  Within a few hours, I had written a rough draft of the lyrics.  Who knew I had some hidden songwriting ability.  Jeremy and the boys made some changes and tweaked some words and we were good to go!  Then it got taken one step further.  Instead of just singing the song, let's shoot video to go along with it.  This project was getting more complicated by the minute!  We have always enjoyed the parody videos that the Holderness family makes (look them up on YouTube if you haven't seen them....they are so good!)  Now we were about to create our own.

We have spent time together, been creative, and have laughed a lot.  My husband has amazed me with his video editing skills.  We would never have had the time to do this with our normal schedule.  What ideas do you have of things that your family could do together that wasn't possible before, but is now?  Create memories.  Take advantage of the time you've been given.  And enjoy our creative attempt to bring a smile to your face :)