Well, it has been a while! Besides what is happening in the outside world (the election and the light at the end of the tunnel, the pandemic) our lives have been very quiet. The kids are still doing distance learning and will at least until the end of January. After that, who knows? The COVID-19 […]
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Greetings from Anxiety-land! I have never been this nervous about an election. Yes, I know that the polls look good and one would hope that the nation would have come to its senses after the carnage of the past four years, but the fact that we were ever here in the first place makes me […]
It’s been two week since I last posted and I have to admit that I’ve been spending some time during the past 2 weeks evaluating things. For the past eight (!!) months, I’ve been viewing things as temporary. While I don’t think that things are permanent, I don’t think we can call it temporary. Now, […]
I had great intentions of posting something mid-week this week, but it just didn’t happen. This wasn’t an especially busy week, but it also wasn’t very eventful. I’m not sure what I would have said. I did toy with the idea of doing a book review (yes..I might tiptoe back into that world), but I […]
This post almost didn’t happen…because I forgot what day it was! The kids had yesterday and today off from school and it completely messed with my sense of time! It’s amazing how quickly those routines become ingrained and how it upends everything when they aren’t there. The first part of the week was pretty ordinary, […]
Just a quick post today as w are expecting guests soon and I want to get something up before they arrive. This week was very much like the past…we’ve been busy with school. Distance learning is going a bit more smoothly now, which is nice. Chris has also started writing clever little stories, which just […]
Once again, another week has gone by without a post. While I was at my computer quite a bit, I had very little uninterrupted time to sit down and write. Distance learning is going fairly well. Chris is still having tech issues, but I think it is more user error than anything. I don’t think […]
I meant to update at some point this week but distance learning is no joke! The good news is that it is much, much improved from the spring. I gave teachers a lot of grace in the spring–they were thrown into the distance learning world with no warning. I still give them grace–this is difficult […]
Well, this is it. The last weeknight evening of our summer vacation. I asked the kids what their favorite thing about this summer was. Chris said it was going to the zoo and Lillie said it was going to Dairy Queen. So, there you go. If you’ve been following the news, you know that summer […]
Another week gone and the last week of “summer.” I put that in quotes because “fall” is…different…this year. In a normal year, the kids would start school on Tuesday. However, 2020 is anything but a normal year. For that first week, it will be a “soft” start where the teachers will be contacting families and […]
