Happy Birthday, Wesley!

Wesley had the honor of celebrating our first family Pandemic Birthday™ Zara really rocked it with cake baking, and Amity and I helped eat said cake. Also, i know that's a lot of candles, but we promise we didn't burn down the house!

Backyard Nacho Snack

When life gives you pandemic stay at home time, you give back random backyard nacho picnics! Turns out al fresco dining on a big plate of cheese and chips (there are some beans there, too) can improve almost anyone's mood, at least a little. Zara decided to celebrate having absolutely nowhere to go by getting inexplicably dressed up. To each their own?

House of Z Masks

 

We have significantly more photos of us wearing masks (this is 2020, after all), but this particular post is just so Zara can remember the spring/summer she made over 500 masks. Did she have some help from us? Undoubtedly. Maryann provided much of the initial fabric from quilt scraps and her very sizable general stash. Wes did the lion's share of the cutting, and most of the trips to the post office to mail masks to 12 different states. I did a lot of pinning, and turning ties (Amity helped with the ties, too, and decorated packaging in the very early days) but mostly managed the business side of things...  keeping track of orders, collecting money, etc. However, Zara did 99.9% of the sewing... and that's a lot of sewing. Also, she donated 50% of her profits to local non-profits working to help people during the pandemic, and also sewed many masks just as donations themselves. It kept her busy when we were all going stir crazy, and she did some good in the world, both for the people she made masks for as well as the people she helped through her donations. Good on you, kid.