Ok, my friends. We are wrapping up Day 2 over here in Larive Land. It was gorgeous outside today and we spend lots of time chasing each other over log piles and honing our Frisbee skills - so much time that I fully expected kids to be zonked out as soon as they hit the pillow. Ummmmm....no. The spring air has infused their spirits and they went down hard tonight. But I pushed on...because I believe in structure and because I needed to stress eat from my hidden Milky Way stash.
We did a fun (insane, may-regret-it, shoulda-looked-before-we-jumped) thing today. Last night, I set up the little kids with the FB kids messenger app on their Kindles. So now, they can call or message or send funny pictures to anyone I approve on their list. My logic behind this was that I wanted them to be able to have face time with their buddies and cousins - and I wanted to check in and entertain a few people we know that are on strict lockdown. (Looking at you Busia...) So now they have all their little friends and all our relatives that use the app at the touch of their sticky little fingers. AND THOSE KIDS CAN CALL US. AAAAAAANNNND kids do not know how to have normal phone calls. I went outside for an hour and came back in to thirteen missed messages from just one of my nephews LOL However....my kids loved it, pretty sure all the kids they called loved it as well, and it kept them incredibly entertained. I am going to stick by my original logic and just try and steer them into reading to each other once the novelty wears off in a few days. Feel free to send me a link if you have a kid that would like to chat with my 5 and 7 yr old. One day they can tell their kids how they made new friends over Facebook back in the old days...also, fair warning...my kids do not have the camera angle quite mastered and you will probably see a lot of weird things, including (but not limited to) my triple chin view from 3 ft high people, our cat looking annoyed at the camera in his face, the inside of Baby Girls nostrils, and the collection of plants/garden paraphernalia living all over the house as I pore over weather reports waiting to put them outside.
I spent too much time on Facebook today. I get too worked up about people posting 'calm down' messages that negate all the facts pouring in. I keep trying to do the responsible, adult-y thing and scroll on past, but inevitably I end up commenting RESEARCH FLATTEN THE CURVE! I guess I hope that if they have friends, they will see and wonder what that means and do their own research instead posting a toilet paper meme. Or at least research IN ADDITION to that tp meme. I am using a LOT of capital letters tonight....
Home School went fine today - we cheated a little bit this afternoon since it was so sunny and it is supposed to rain the next few days. But that is allowed. We still stuck with all our basics, reading, and drawing/writing in journals. We did however, add in the FB live feed from the Cincinnati Zoo - and all of us really enjoyed it. They are doing a live feed every day - I think at 3 - from a different exhibit at the zoo. They are all posted so you can watch at a different time, which is how we are doing it. So today we watched the hippo video and tomorrow we will be watching porcupines. By the way, did you know hippos can't swim? I totally did not.
Tomorrow we pick up education packets at the kids' school so that will be new and exciting. It has to be so hard for them to figure out what to send - some kids are home with parents to help, some kids are at a daycare or with family that might not be much help, some kids are on their own with the doors locked. How to create something equal out of such different situations? I am curious to see what kind of things they will have for them to work through. Also, anyone else pretty convinced they won't be going be back until May at the earliest? It will be a big job deciding how to put a school year back together for these kids.
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