First week

We met some friends at the beach last weekend to celebrate surviving the first week of school. We are trying to hold onto summer as long as possible. And also needed to get out of the house. This virtual schooling schedule keeps us home bound all day long. We all prefer the loose schedule they had back in the spring. But we are slowly getting into our new routine. 

After a week of cloudy skies and rainy weather the sun was greatly needed.

I think it was Joel who told me last week that even the skies are sad for all the school kids that week! Ha! 

I think that might be our last beach day for awhile of actually getting in the water. Fall weather has arrive and as much as we like having windows open and cool evenings I think we’d all like a few more weeks of summer back. 

 

Beach days

We didn’t make it to the beach as much as I thought we would but we had a few families we would meet for some fun beach days. 

 The bay sunsets never disappoint 

For Christmas I got a paddle board so that has been a fun addition.

We made it to Yorktown beach a few times. That’s my favorite place to paddle board. 

Getting ice cream at first landing beach looks a lot different this year.

If the kids want to go far on the paddle board I have them wear a life jacket. I think we are the only ones wearing life jackets on our paddle boards but do you see Colin? He’s inside the black circle. I don’t worry about them and they have the freedom to go as far as they want. So they prefer wearing the life jacket.

Ant Ant joined us at Yorktown beach too. 

We hope to get a few more beach days in this year before winter. 

 

First days of school

It has been the weirdest first week of school. The boys are starting virtual with the intent to go back in person as soon as the numbers are acceptable. Right now they are saying first nine weeks but they have a meeting next week to see if we will go back earlier.

The boys are hoping earlier.

They are so sad. This isn’t school at all. They miss their friends and being in an actual classroom. TheY have such large gaps between their meetings that there is a lot of down time. Yet not enough time to go do something. We are all slightly depressed around here. 

And this girl is being homeschooled. I didn’t want her to have to sit in front of a computer all day and then was afraid of the back and forth that I’m sure will occur at some point. She told me last night that she doesn’t like being homeschooled. That it feels like a sick day yet she has to do school work. 

We have done some fun science projects that she likes and I told her it’ll get more fun. This week has been getting the boys logged in at the right times. Most of her friends are being homeschooled as well so once we get the boys on their schedules we can have some fun play dates and field trips. 

It’s been a long week already