Author Archives: Erin

Natalie did a research project on French pastries… so we made crepes this morning! Conor kept asking for more. Bon appetit!

Day 17. Nat amazingly reviewed Elliott’s time telling work (her idea – shocking) and Elliott responded great to the feedback. Day 18 stunk. We spent 2 hours cleaning off our groceries. E spilled lemonade on my laptop. It’s sitting in … Continue reading →

Elliott: Mom, is church today going to be on a zoom thingie or just a recording? Me: Recording. You can still wear your pajamas Elliott: ok, good Nat was also the Eucharistic minister and passed our Ritz crackers    

We treated ourselves to a movie night (the Goonies from 1985 won out over my suggestion of Richie Rich) and homemade ice cream sandwich cookies after a pretty good week of remote learning. Tip: make the cookies way thinner. They … Continue reading →

Beautiful weather. Lots of soccer, Frisbee, walks, etc.  The kids claim lots of clean-up too, but I don’t see a lot of evidence of this. We’ve reluctantly had to rely more on technology since the COVID crisis.  Elliott has an … Continue reading →

Aunt Leah Danger Ellis Busch from Alaska is teaching her nephews and nieces (including the Rob Marx cousins) about habitats and Jordan Linville is teaching piano. I get the fun tasks of organizing learning bins with the kids and making … Continue reading →

Day 13: COVID quarantine = All my favorite people are always around and have time to snuggle and play!!!!!! – Conor

Governor just announced no school until at least May 4. MA has 1,100+ cases. Conor is one guy who loves the Covid quarantine and is crushing this remote learning. He reads more books than any of us (he brought this … Continue reading →

Cribbage for Math time! Science experiment with Kaitlynn. Conor was loving a baby organic chemistry book because the atoms were balls. And COVID care package from Grandma  yay!!!

The stomach bug put me behind a few days. we had a renewed attempt at remote learning today and did much better. We were doing personal reflections at dinner and Conor was clapping for all of us! (Conor felt decidedly … Continue reading →