Life without School (Week 4)...

This week was Lucius' second week distance learning and O's first week. Lucius' teacher changed things up a bit with her schedule, so although we had a nice rhythm with Lucius last week we had a few extra tears at the changes this week. It was hard giving Lucius enough one on one attention to help him get his work assignments finished while also trying to keep O on top of everything too.

But through the tears and all the frustration we managed to make it to Friday. Since Jerimy, Lucius and I had the day off from work and school, we decided to give O a day off too! Thankfully the schools and teachers have all understood how tough this is for everyone involved in distance learning.

I had to work everyday in the middle of the day to hand out food for families who needed it. So I left the house around 10am each day and came home around 1pm. It was a nice short break but it would be easier to just stay home so we can keep everyone calm. Jerimy's been trying to work from home, which is nice to have him here when I can't be but at the same time it's hard to have us both trying to manage the kids. It gets confusing not only for us but for the kids. Thankfully we're slowing trying to figure out how this should all work. Here's hoping next week is even better. It's sounded more and more like kids will not be going back to school before the end of the school year, which is rather sad for them to deal with.

I did end up making masks on Saturday because I knew I needed to wear one for food distribution. I ended up making two for myself so I could wash them overnight after using it. I also made one for each of my kids and Jerimy too.

I didn't actually take that many photos this week because of how tired and exhausted we all were to figure this all out. On Thursday afternoon, even though the weather was pretty cold and nasty, we gathered up all our sidewalk chalk and headed to the school I work at. A co-worker had a great idea of writing encouraging notes on the front wall of the school to let the kids know we missed them.  O was SO excited about this idea because they've been talking a LOT lately about wanting to become a street artist when they grow up. Lucius came along too and colored in a few letters with us, but soon found a nice spot to sit and watch us while listening to an audio book.

The kiddos have been reading a TON of books while we're home and listening to a LOT of audio books too. I love that they love reading so much.