Friday: games

 We had games with our grad school friends!

This was my favorite T-shirt competition.

We also booked a vacation with them for this summer!!  Woo-hoo!!

Wednesday: Leprechan's Day

 Isaac finally pulled out some gummy Legos and made lots of things with them.  Before I realized it he had sent about six pictures to his teacher, which was a bit excessive.

Joshua was excited to find a piece of gold in his Leprechaun trap.  (It was a coin from an arcade that I had sitting around.)  He made a pot of gold to hide it in.

Tuesday: muffled

Sunday night was capped by the death of a coworker.  While I wouldn't call her a close friend, we did always stop to chat for a minute in the hallway when we saw each other and there was a relationship.

Grieving yesterday felt muffled.  I was at home and the family didn't know her.  They went about their day as normal.  I've noticed this with the few deaths that have happened this year.  It seems as though there should be more mourning, but it can be hard to do so when circumstances are already so weird this year.

Today all feelings felt muted.  Oh, except for the time Joshua spilled water on our good laptop.  Those feelings were loud.  (It is currently drying and I'm optimistic, but we'll see.)  It's been a hard few weeks, and so not having many feelings was a relief.

Every day is different, so we'll see how tomorrow goes.

Sunday: ...

I started the day out in a funk.

The day went downhill from there.

Saturday: made it

 The boys decided to do Lego fights with me this morning.  They always look a little different, but always consist of some Lego item coming upstairs to attack me.  Today I also got a lot of loot from them.  So much loot that it was about two handfuls.

At one point I started hiding in between attacks because...well, it isn't really a fun game.  Joshua decided to hide with me because at that point he was on my side.  So he took a blanket from the couch and put it in a place where it normally isn't.  Then he proceeded to put his head, but not his arms, under the blanket to hide better.  I just smiled and took a picture. 

Friday: eyes

 Isaac had his eye appointment today.  I remembered to go, so that's a bonus.  His eyes are great!

Yesterday I had a student who managed to hide their excel file while working on their exam.  (Instead of freezing rows.)  It took us five minutes, but we eventually found the file back.  The same thing happened today to a student while taking a make-up exam on zoom.  Her level of stress immediately went through the roof, but I knew what had happened and was able to walk her through it.  It wasn't stress-free, but I at least knew how to guide her.

Isaac is making a zoo-under-construction.  They let all the animals in too early.

Thursday: handwriting

 Isaac is learning cursive in school this year.  And by learning it, I mean he's doing a few pages in a workbook every week.

It has made me think about handwriting.  My grandparents' generation hand-writing was all cursive, all the time.  It also had a specific feel to it...handwriting between people is obviously different, but they were all taught it the same way.  It's a bit hard to read and a bit slanty.

I haven't really noticed much about my parents' generation, at least not that I can make broad statements about.  My mom had a wide cursive.  Dad...hmm.  I'm not sure.  The generation still writes in a lot of cursive I think, but I'm not as sure about that.

Then we get to my generation.  I've made my own print/cursive hybrid, which I think is rather common.  You'll notice on the chore list that I didn't even do "min" the same way within a minute.  Some words are print, some cursive, some a mix.  In school we had to write in cursive from 3rd-5th grade, if I recall correctly.  Enough to get it stuck in our brain, but not enough to make it stick well.  (I do tend to make my lower case l's in cursive though, because otherwise they look like 1's.  It's a problem in math.)

So I wonder about Isaac's generation.  Will he need to write in cursive in the coming years or is it something that is slowly dying out, with other things, like keyboarding skills, becoming more important?  What will his handwriting look like?  Will he incorporate any cursive?  For that matter, will his handwriting ever not look like a kid's?