What Happened to Summer? (Living in a Pandemic in the Summer)

I am updating this blog like a boss today right?! It's August 12 so this post is on point with what we've been doing so far this month (spoiler alert: not much!)

Most of my days are filled with worries about the upcoming school year...

 The above absolutely sums up my feelings.

We had a big lead up to the governor annoucing the plans for schools and then his message basically left it up to each district. UGH! So, we waited for our district to evaluate and meet with the local health officials. And now we know the plan. It's a Hybrid learning situation.

I don't feel great about it. 

I wonder if it's worth the risk to send Ella to in person learning two (2) days a week.

Our district has cancelled all open house and orientation opportunities.

Yet, they want us to send kids to school in person.

It's hard for me to come to understand this decision.

First, we said we'd leave it up to Ella. Now, I'm not sure if we should!

The other part of the Hybrid learning situation is that they have split up to the student population by last name to allow for the 50% capacity in person learning threshold. Bummer for Ella since most of her good friends fall in the opposite group. 

She will start middle school this year. 

Will she have to meander the hallways to switch classes (she's never had to do this before because this is her first year at the middle school) and what about lunch? Will they even use lockers this year? 

So. many. questions. 

So, I'm waiting.

I'm waiting for more details and better guidance from our schools on how they intend to keep everyone safe and what happens if someone tests positive. Will we all end up distance learning anyway? 

I know nobody knows and everyone is dealing with this just like us. 

It's just scary and hard.

Recent letterboard...

Jay shopped for groceries and apparently thought we were feeding monkeys here! 

What in the world with all of the bananas!

School supply order arrived! I placed an online order for all of it this year due to the pandemic. 

So weird to do that! But, at the same time it was pretty sweet to open the box and have all the stuff there. In the store, it's hard to find some of the items!

Looking forward to reading the latest Grisham book on the deck this weekend 

Also on the agenda for later this week - working on trimming some landscaping!