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Category Archives: The Virus
Practice Thanksgiving 2020
This year the table is set for four, not eighteen or twenty or whatever ridiculous amount of place settings we try to squeeze in. Our moms, the boys grandmas, will not be joining us. No neighbors or friends will be … Continue reading
Posted in Food Glorious Food, The Virus
Tagged COVID can't stop us this, Creme brulee, Family, Food, Practice Thanksgiving, Traditions
9 Comments
Long Days
Oops. Apparently almost a month has gone by. As you know, I have been remote teaching my amazing, wonderful class of cheerful third graders. It is a lot of work and makes for long days on a computer. My typical … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Teacher, The Virus
Tagged COVID-19, In person learning, Life, Pets, Remote teaching, Teaching, Third Grade
4 Comments
Dining by Rapid Automatic Gunfire
There are many reasons I am looking forward to the school year starting back up, even if it will be done remotely. I am excited for Cody to start high school. I am glad Carter got his first choices of … Continue reading
Posted in Little Feet, The Virus
Tagged cats, Fortnite, Humor, Kids, NPR, Parenting, Pets, School, Teaching, Video Games
9 Comments
Order
Order. In our classroom (I say “our” because it is both mine and my students’) there is an order and a calm that comes with knowing. In the first week of school, my students and I discuss why we are … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Teacher, The Virus
Tagged Bitmoji, Bitmoji Classroom, COVID-19, Life, School, Stress, Teaching, Virtual Learning
23 Comments
Quarantine Conversations with Husband
Yesterday I used the last Q-tip in the package. (This is only a noteworthy feat due to the fact that the package is a Costco sized package and contained 625 Q-tips. In addition to this, it is one of three … Continue reading
Posted in Random Thoughts, The Virus
Tagged Costco, Humor, Husband, Life, Marriage, Q-tips, Quarantine, Quarantine Conversations
8 Comments
Wood Grain Paths
What do you see when you look at this? I used to just see a hard wood floor, one that typically needs cleaning. A hard wood floor that I try my best to keep dry when both two footed and … Continue reading
Eating (with) Grandma
Late last week as I was rummaging around in our freezer, I came across some leftover Practice Thanksgiving turkey. I really need to clean out my freezer more often. (If you are unfamiliar with our family created holiday, you can … Continue reading
Posted in Food Glorious Food, The Virus
Tagged cats, Cooking, Cooking with Cats, Food, Humor, Kids, Parenting, Pets, Practice Thanksgiving, The things kids say, Traditions, will this be a new tradition?
8 Comments
Making the News and Reopening Schools
When the state that you live in makes the national news, especially in these times, you can be pretty confident that it is not a good thing. This along with a virtual town hall hosted by my school district’s superintendent … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Teacher, The Virus
Tagged Anxiety, Arizona, Baby Yoda, Back to School, COVID-19, Kids, Parenting, Schools, Teaching
8 Comments
Colonel Mustard in the Billiard Room with the Wrench?
Weighing in at about six pounds and with a length of 20 inches, our billiard table is elegant and impressive. Cue sticks of 22 inches long, balls, triangle, and table brush all scaled to size, it proudly proves that good … Continue reading
Posted in Little Feet, The Virus
Tagged Amazon, Billiards, Clue, Clue book series, Colonel Mustard, Kids, Pool, Pool Table, Quarantine shopping
4 Comments
A Trader Joe’s Christmas in Spring
As like most things, shopping looks a lot different in this time of COVID-19. Husband is the main grocery store shopper. He goes out as infrequently as possible, using curbside pick-up whenever possible. The list of places we shop has … Continue reading
Posted in Food Glorious Food, Little Feet, The Virus
Tagged COVID-19, Dogs, Humor, Kids, Life, Pets, Trader Joe's
11 Comments