We had the meeting with the counselors today to try to figure out what Julie should be taking in her freshman year of high school. It looks like we need to make one small tweak to the results, but things look promising.

While Julie's school is now out until next Tuesday, K can go back to high school, as they just changed the COVID protocols to bring them in line with the new CDC recommendations by reducing the quarantine time. She could have, in theory, gone back to school sooner under the old rules if she had taken a PCR test (not a rapid test) with 48 hours of ( Read more... )

And the first shoe has dropped. Julie's school district will be closed for a week starting on Tuesday, because they have run out of healthy staff.

We'll see what the high school district has to say, if anything, soon. Or so I suspect.

Julie started back to school yesterday; K headed back to school today. There is a lot of tired going around the house right now. :)

And I made some good progress at work today despite a doctor's appointment. Still lots to do though...

No nibbles on the bunk bed yet, so I need to post it in a few more places and see if we can find someone who wants

Happy New Year!

Today is the next-to-last day of my vacation and there are still *way* too many things that aren't done the way that they should be. But I continue to work on moving the pile.

Today, I have washed two weeks of my shirts, which keeps me up-to-date there. I also have washed the lightweight comforter so it can be packed up until the ( Read more... )

This morning, I woke up and said to Gretchen, "I think we misplaced a present for the kids."

The very first thing that I bought for this Christmas was a copy of the Catan game, which had been placed in a safe place and then forgotten and not wrapped. So, this afternoon, we presented them with the box. Due to a small miscalculation, Julie had ( Read more... )

Christmas Day was a rousing, overfed success at our home.

Everyone got moving late, which was fine by us. Gretchen went out to get drinks while I showered. This took longer than anticipated, because apparently various McDonald's that were supposed to be open had a staffing shortage, which meant that coffee and hot chocolate were available at ( Read more... )

We decided to make a Key Lime pie for Christmas dinner, because it is a dessert that everyone in the family will eat. And the good news is that making Key Lime pie is really easy, especially because we have been planning to make one for a long time, so we had all of the ingredients in the house. Of course, it has to be prepared the day before and ( Read more... )

On the list of things that I need to teach to my children:

If someone is telling you that the thing that they are suggesting that you do is illegal, but you should do it anyway, because it is the right thing to do, you need to very carefully consider two things.

First, it is entirely possible that this person does not have *your* best interests at ( Read more... )

Some of Julie's friends are in chorus which led to Julie joining chorus. This is a good thing.

Last night, the school had their first band/choral concert in a *very* long time. Given the difficulties involved, all of the kids acquitted themselves well.

It was fun to be there.