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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 →

Conor woke up feeling much better but is still crabby. We let J out of his room for dinner. Elliott joined me for 7 min of PE today!!!  Look at that impressive plank! (He was setting up for a push … Continue reading →

Day 4 was rough. Conor woke up in a bed of red kidney bean-puke and Jordan went to bed with a dry cough so we quarantined him in Elliott’s room for 20 hours (day 4 into 5). Natalie and Elliott … Continue reading →

Day 3 of 23+ It was a full day of conference calls so the family fun was considerably less. Conor is loving baths so that occupied him for almost 30 min while the other two kids spent time on technology. … Continue reading →