Week Nine: Quarantine May 11-18

We are still in it to win it when it comes to the stay at home learn at home approach.  When we need groceries I am using the Instacart delivery app for Aldi or sending out Bob only to get what we need. The weather has started to warm up and we have been taking advantage of being outside for most of the day.  Our school district asked teachers to create a sign and take a picture for a photo montage to brighten their days...here is my photo that I contributed.  This is a saying that I use in my classroom everyday to remind students that even though life can be tough, we can do hard things!!

Homeschooling is a team effort.  Carter's advanced math has thrown a wrench in our days.  For the most part he can rock through it without any help needed but when he needs help it is "all hands on deck".  I will try my best at figuring it out, which often times requires me to watch a tutorial on you tube to refresh my memory on how to simplify mixed number fractions and then multiply them as decimals and then put them back into mixed number fractions...I know I am exhausted just listing those steps.  Bob has had to stop down between his work calls to be the set of fresh eyes to figure out the tough ones.


I have taken time to teach yoga with my students and yoga club students once a week.  This has been eye opening as many of them reflect on their current emotions of sadness.  Sadness that they can't see their friends, missing their teachers, missing all the fun they had at school, etc. It warms my heart as they bring their focus on themselves and find the calm within their day.  Leo often attends and sleeps on the couch behind or chews my yoga mat to shreds.


The boys have been bike riding with neighbor kids and this has been our saving grace.  He is a photo of Nolan with his "snack bag" that he wears sometimes while riding that he fills with his favorite snacks. 


Here are the neighborhood kids that have become our quarantine families and our kids have really bonded and are enjoying their time together.  This is our best effort at social distancing!

Summer is quickly approaching and I love seeing them outside playing together just like we did in the olden days!


Nolan continues to have some emotional struggles but can crack us up too!  Here is a screenshot while I was Facetiming with Maw Maw of Nolan vacuuming the concrete front porch.  As part of their daily morning chores they have to choose a room to vacuum. Nolan decided the front porch was going to be his "room of choice"...I spent several minutes trying to reason with him why the front porch isn't a place where we would vacuum.  Never a dull moment!

Here is a photo of me in the midst of a power struggle with Nolan on a walk.  He had his scooter and didn't want to ride it home so Landon helped to carry it home.  However the moment Landon got on the scooter he had a meltdown because he wanted it back and then when Landon gave the scooter back we started it all over again. The struggle is real friends.


While teaching my kinders about the life cycle of a butterfly I ordered caterpillars that we watched up close turn into butterflies.  We released them in our backyard together!


Another fun week together as a family!