Wednesday: second day of school

Day 2 is in the books.

Kindergarten still went well.  Joshua had a bit more work than yesterday, but was still finished around 11.  He also made Grey Bear a hat to match his.

Isaac had a slightly more challenging time.  He had more work than yesterday, and there was a lot of writing.  He's slow at writing.  The non-writing parts went well, the writing parts were a struggle.  I'm also now talking with his teacher a bit about his spelling, because he's a bit behind.  It's a bit awkward, because I need to be involved more at a time I'd normally mostly let things run their course.  Everyone survived with minimal tears.  The teacher was also posting to-do items throughout the morning which felt awkward to me.  I think we need to change our way of thinking a bit and instead of following the to-do list she gives every day follow what is available and just make sure we've done everything at the end.

I even got the kitchen cleaned up.  Just in time for lunch, so it's a bit of a mess again, but at least the dishwasher was run.

Tuesday: first day of school

Welcome to the first day of school...at home.

Kindergarten went well.  Joshua was medium excited and all of his class stuff was well organized.  He needed help with the transitions, but that was expected.

Isaac's first day of  3rd grade went ok.  The assignments weren't quite as organized.  (There were a few times we were like, 'ok, he watched the video.  What is he supposed to do with that?')  There were a few links that didn't work either, although those got fixed pretty quickly.  To be fair, Isaac has more interesting websites that were used and classmates that can type, which fills up the chat window faster but also makes one page more cluttered.

The kitties enjoyed being back in the school room and honestly, made a small nuisance of themselves.  If it continues one or the other may be banished to a different room.  Oh, also shown is Isaac reading in our comfy cozy spot.

The chrome books were a bit annoying.  They go to sleep after about 30 minutes of inactivity and then you need to start everything over...any tabs that may have been opened are gone.  This only happened once today, but if it happens on a regular basis I might call the help desk and see if I can get it changed.  The chrome books were nice though in that they go right to a page with links.  We were also done around 10:45 (although Isaac had one more class at 11:45).  It was a bit earlier than I was hoping for, but it was also only the first day.  There's also no specials, so we might add some of those in ourselves.  I was able to get some work done, but it was rather interrupted.  I'm hoping Isaac will be able to eventually figure out a lot on his own, but I expect Joshua will continue to need help.  Which is fine, I just need to plan my work appropriately.

I'm expecting house work will suffer even more than it has in the last two weeks while I've been working.  As normal, I feel like I'm just adding things to my to-do list instead of actually doing them.

Monday: Grey Bear

 Joshua was not excited about going for a hike this morning so I said, "Bring something that will make you happy."  I had been thinking sunglasses or pants instead of shorts or something like that, but instead Grey Bear came with us!  I was rather excited...it's been a while since Grey Bear has joined us on an outing.

Sunday: meh

 Today was annoying.  The boys were bored and rather unwilling to be unbored.

Friday: missing

Things that are somewhat missing...

My pants:  I was getting dressed yesterday for work and felt like I had significantly fewer pants to choose from than normal.  One had a stain on them, but I don't think that any were in the wash.

Joshua's underwear: Joshua said "Did you know you can wear two pairs of underwear at once?!?" earlier this week, and there seemed to be a ton in the wash this week.

My beginning of school excitement: Joshua and I worked on the classroom a bit more today and we could easily start.  I'm sure a few things will change and there are some minor things I still want to move around, but it's pretty ready.

1 cup raspberries: I thought I had enough raspberries to make jam yesterday, but was two cups short.  I picked again this morning but only got one cup worth.  (I did get that last cup this evening, but it was too late to make jam.)

Thursday: week

 Well, this week is flying by.  I just realized I haven't posted since Monday.  I don't have any pictures so it's hard to remember.  Not much happened.

The babysitter started work and it seems to have gone well.

Isaac spent the night with Larry and Cheryl and had a grand time.  Joshua stayed at home.  We made a cat tent and had too much screen time.  We almost made raspberry jam, but we were about one cup of raspberries short.  There'll probably be enough by tomorrow.

My second class today finally seemed to get the timing correct.  I got through all the material and there was time for the students to practice.

I picked up Isaac and Joshua's supplies from school. It was uneventful.  I got Isaac's first week of school schedule and it doesn't look too bad at all, but the teacher also said that it will change the second week.

Monday: screen time day

 Isaac used his all-day screen time day today.  Although he wasn't feeling great this evening, so we moved tonight's screen time until tomorrow.

I got a lot of work done today because of this, although I relaxed a bit too.

In other news, Joshua made his next recipe: cup sandwich.  He had it for dinner, but the first thing he had to do was slam it out of the cup.  So I'm not really sure what the point of the cup was, other than to make it hard to spread the toppings.  He had Nutella, honey, and peanut butter.  The peanut butter was "to be healthy".  Oh, and there are three layers of bread, cut with a cookie cutter.