It’s hard to believe we’ve been home that long.
Life has mostly settled into a routine.
Breakfast 🍳
School 📚
Lunch 🍲
School 🧮
Some variation of the following:
-Outside 🌺
-Badge work (or Trail Life Home Activities) ⛺️
-Read, Read, Read 📖
-Snack 🍎
-TV 📺
Dinner 🥘
Documentaries/TV/Music 🎶
Bible 📜
Showers 🚿
Bed 🛏
Justin has his office hours. He writes notes, he films lessons, uploads digital exams.🖋📽🖥
Sundays: church online, call our parents, and small group by Zoom ⛪️ 📞 👥
Wednesday: Katie is working on her sign language badge by teaching a younger girl to sign The Pledge of Allegiance through FaceTime. 🧏♀️ 🇺🇸
Thursday night the girls Zoom meeting with their friends. 👩👱♀️👩🦱
When we can get a slot: Grocery pick-up 🛒
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Friday, March 27, 2020
Friday Funny?
🤮
E: I don't like the word puke. It is gross. I'm okay with the word barf.
N: I think the word vomit is cool.
Thursday, March 26, 2020
14 1/2
1. What is your favorite color? Ice blue
2. What is your favorite toy? Ellie's play tablet
3. What is your favorite fruit? Grapes
4. What is your favorite tv show? The Cosby Show
5. What is your favorite movie? Winter Soldier
6. What is your favorite thing to wear? PJs
7. What is your favorite animal? Gibbons
8. What is your favorite song? "Castle on the Hill” & “All f the Stars”
9. What is your favorite book? Keeper of the Last Cities: Legacy
10. Who is your best friend? I can’t answer that! You're mean. The Golden Quartet
11. What is your favorite snack? Oreos
12. What is your favorite drink? Vanilla Bean Frappe + Two pumps of Carmel
13. What is your favorite breakfast? Chocolate Chip Pancakes & Whipped cream
14. What is your favorite lunch? Cold Pizza
15. What is your favorite dinner? Spaghetti and Meatballs
16. What is your favorite game? Apples to Apples
17. What is your favorite thing to play outside? Camping—not pretend...really go camping
18. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas because we have food
19. What do you sleep with at night? My pillow
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Batman
Bonus Question (from Katie): what is you favorite phrase or quote: “I choose to run toward my problems because that's what heroes do.” -Thor
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
6 1/2
1. What is your favorite color? Pink
2. What is your favorite toy? Tent
3. What is your favorite fruit? Orange
4. What is your favorite tv show? Just Add Magic
5. What is your favorite movie? Frozen II
6. What is your favorite thing to wear? Pink heart sweater dress, leggings, & sparkly silver shoes
7. What is your favorite animal? Dog
8. What is your favorite song? "Rewrite the Stars”
9. What is your favorite book? Animal Encyclopedia
10. Who is your best friend? Chloe
11. What is your favorite snack? Briar's Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
12. What is your favorite drink? Orange juice
13. What is your favorite breakfast? Chocolate Chip Pancakes
14. What is your favorite lunch? Ham sandwich with BBQ Chips
15. What is your favorite dinner? Chicken, macaroni, & Brussels sprouts
16. What is your favorite game? Apples to Apples (big picture)
17. What is your favorite thing to play outside? Swing
18. What is your favorite holiday? Halloween ('cause I get candy)
19. What do you sleep with at night? I don't really sleep with stuffed animals any more, but I do like Wilbur—a stuffed toy pig
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? I will be a nail designer and work at Harbor Freight
Bonus Question (from Katie): what is you favorite phrase or quote: Nope.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Day 13
Locked in
Friend passed
Food scarce
TP disappeared
Meetings Zoom-ed
Library closed
Pantry volunteering
Mask sewing
School at home
Work at home
Church at home
Life at home
No fever—so we can serve at the local food pantry. They are in great need with so many newly unemployed.
Church...just pretend we’re in the second row on the left side of the church.
Climbing through to reach the last of the items on a shelf to pack fo those who need help with food.
Prepping fabric to make masks for those who need them.
Friend passed
Food scarce
TP disappeared
Meetings Zoom-ed
Library closed
Pantry volunteering
Mask sewing
School at home
Work at home
Church at home
Life at home
Saturday, March 21, 2020
If you are new, and temporarily, homeschooling, know this...
Most of us started with only one homeschooler. a kindergartner, who learned some math, a little reading and writing, read (listened to) a few interesting books, and played a lot.
We got to spend months pouring over just the right curriculum that fit our learner, family structure, and teaching style.
We, despite misleading title of homeschooler, don’t really stay home all the time. We go to parks, libraries, museums, plays, concerts, co-ops, tutorials, clubs, sports teams, churches, and lessons. Believe it or not, our children are climbing the walls too.
Even seasoned home schoolers struggle with balancing education, parenting, volunteering, and working. We just have a bit more practice at stepping over the pile of laundry and shoving the stack of books aside.
A bit of advice from the principal from when I first started in public education, “If everyone gets lunch and gets on the right bus by the end of the first day, it is a success.” Since none of your students needs to find the bus, I bet your first day was a success!
I hope you all make some great memories and learn a little something. Maybe it won’t be quite what you expected, but perhaps it will stick with the children forever because it was so different, because it was with you. Teach them something that is really important to you...the rules to a game, an important piece of history, an eye popping bit of science. May God bless your school at home, for as long as you are there.
Happy learning!
Most of us started with only one homeschooler. a kindergartner, who learned some math, a little reading and writing, read (listened to) a few interesting books, and played a lot.
We got to spend months pouring over just the right curriculum that fit our learner, family structure, and teaching style.
We, despite misleading title of homeschooler, don’t really stay home all the time. We go to parks, libraries, museums, plays, concerts, co-ops, tutorials, clubs, sports teams, churches, and lessons. Believe it or not, our children are climbing the walls too.
Even seasoned home schoolers struggle with balancing education, parenting, volunteering, and working. We just have a bit more practice at stepping over the pile of laundry and shoving the stack of books aside.
A bit of advice from the principal from when I first started in public education, “If everyone gets lunch and gets on the right bus by the end of the first day, it is a success.” Since none of your students needs to find the bus, I bet your first day was a success!
I hope you all make some great memories and learn a little something. Maybe it won’t be quite what you expected, but perhaps it will stick with the children forever because it was so different, because it was with you. Teach them something that is really important to you...the rules to a game, an important piece of history, an eye popping bit of science. May God bless your school at home, for as long as you are there.
Happy learning!
Friday, March 20, 2020
Overwhelmed
My kids are old enough to read my blog these days, so if you’re reading this, it will be after life has returned to some type of normalcy, not in the midst of the crazy.
What on Earth is going on? I have been watching stores for toilet paper for about two weeks now. I keep thinking, surely soon everyone will have enough to feel safe. Are they building forts out of it? I can’t even get paper towels. Bigger forts?
I got up at 5:20 this morning to get in early and find paper goods. They were announcing customers were limited to one paper good... Both aisles were empty. There were a few single packs of facial tissue and small packs of napkins.
Alcohol swabs. Really? I did find some today. One box. Just one. Anyone who takes injections needs these. Justin uses, at minimum, four a day. Usually I get two packs, and never even thought about not being able to find them.
Bread, milk, pasta. The shelves were bare in those sections. I grew up on n the south. I'm used to the snow panic, but again, I thought by now things would have improved, not gotten worse.
I had four cans of black beans in my cart—two for chili and a set to go with Mexican food when they announced a limit of three on any one item. I, begrudgingly, put a can back. I get it is to protect resources for all, but our family, by default, uses a bit more resources.
Is quarantine the right option for the healthy? How long will it last? Is this the first of many?
Then there is the virus itself. I know one of the people in my county with it. He is very, very sick. He's been in the ICU for days, respirator, dialysis, the whole nine. Last night his prognosis was listed as poor. Now his wife has caught it too. His grown children are quarantined elsewhere, away from work and family, because they came to help. And I feel powerless. I can’t make a basket to take to the hospital full of things to make it easier. All I can do is wait for updates.
I keep seeing that it isn’t that big of a deal for young people. Then I see a large percentage of the hospitalizations are young people. This thing or that thing will protect you. Only distance will protect you... Who knows.
Well, God knows. He has it. I just have to remember that He who made the sun, moon, and stars; cells, atoms, and quarks can handle this. He knew before the beginning of time about the toilet paper crisis of 2020. He knows how this will work for the good of those who love Him. I don’t get it. At least not yet, but He does. More family time, deeper faith, a change in the culture, a whole bunch of new homeschoolers (temporary or not), fewer commuters, more meetings turned into emails. Or something that seems so minute we all overlook it.
What on Earth is going on? I have been watching stores for toilet paper for about two weeks now. I keep thinking, surely soon everyone will have enough to feel safe. Are they building forts out of it? I can’t even get paper towels. Bigger forts?
I got up at 5:20 this morning to get in early and find paper goods. They were announcing customers were limited to one paper good... Both aisles were empty. There were a few single packs of facial tissue and small packs of napkins.
Alcohol swabs. Really? I did find some today. One box. Just one. Anyone who takes injections needs these. Justin uses, at minimum, four a day. Usually I get two packs, and never even thought about not being able to find them.
Bread, milk, pasta. The shelves were bare in those sections. I grew up on n the south. I'm used to the snow panic, but again, I thought by now things would have improved, not gotten worse.
I had four cans of black beans in my cart—two for chili and a set to go with Mexican food when they announced a limit of three on any one item. I, begrudgingly, put a can back. I get it is to protect resources for all, but our family, by default, uses a bit more resources.
Is quarantine the right option for the healthy? How long will it last? Is this the first of many?
Then there is the virus itself. I know one of the people in my county with it. He is very, very sick. He's been in the ICU for days, respirator, dialysis, the whole nine. Last night his prognosis was listed as poor. Now his wife has caught it too. His grown children are quarantined elsewhere, away from work and family, because they came to help. And I feel powerless. I can’t make a basket to take to the hospital full of things to make it easier. All I can do is wait for updates.
I keep seeing that it isn’t that big of a deal for young people. Then I see a large percentage of the hospitalizations are young people. This thing or that thing will protect you. Only distance will protect you... Who knows.
Well, God knows. He has it. I just have to remember that He who made the sun, moon, and stars; cells, atoms, and quarks can handle this. He knew before the beginning of time about the toilet paper crisis of 2020. He knows how this will work for the good of those who love Him. I don’t get it. At least not yet, but He does. More family time, deeper faith, a change in the culture, a whole bunch of new homeschoolers (temporary or not), fewer commuters, more meetings turned into emails. Or something that seems so minute we all overlook it.
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