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Pandemic journal: Day 4
Mar. 19th, 2020 07:30 amGood morning to who ever might actually be reading this. I'm back to Dreamwidth/LJland because a) posting to Tumblr often feels like shouting into the void, b) DW sent out the "Check your damn passwords!" email and duuuuuude, my password was prehistoric. I was still using my favorite password from *college*. *So* not secure!
So now, with a better password I'm going to shout into the void where my old friends are.
This whole Shelter In Place & Homeschool thing is something else. We're just about to start Day 4, which in the scheme of things is nothing. I feel like I'm writing the opening chapters to The Diary of Anne Frank, the ones where she worries about things that were important Before but won't be by the end of the book.
So far we've managed to start school and work by 10 o'clock. Drew has set up a standing desk in the library. Thank goodness it's tall -- we didn't have to move much furniture to make it fit, and it can stay there for as long as we need. Granted, the shoe rack is now under the desk, but we don't need our shoes that often these days.
Danny is doing his schoolwork at his desk in his room. The paper packets that came home from school on Friday (was it really less than a week ago?) are lame, set by grade level to what they could know in September, so Danny is diving head first into Khan Academy. His math knowledge is going to be shallow with sudden surprising deep spots, but that's ok. I told him he needs to write for 20 minutes a day and he has started writing a novel. It's remarkably good! I didn't realize that my hyperlogical kid who never met a metaphor he understood had such creativity and storytelling in him.
Becky is trying to do her schoolwork in her room too. Many days that's just Epic Reading (yay for online education) and iReady or Starfall for math. Although on Monday we did start tackling multiplication, which was fun! Danny's old recliner is now in Becky's room, and she's very happy to sit there. Speaking of Becky, it's her 8th birthday today! My littlest extravert is having a rough time with the idea of not having anyone at a birthday party, but we'll have cake and candles, and a couple of gifts arrived in the mail. So she'll be ok.
I'm working as hard as ever. I thought this staying home thing would give me more time to read and do crafts, but so far I'm just going going going. Between keeping the kids on their schoolwork, getting paid work done for the law firm I work part-time for, and keeping the house running, I haven't had much more than 45 minutes free any given day. Needless to say I spend that time on social media.
So here we are. Let's see where this goes.
So now, with a better password I'm going to shout into the void where my old friends are.
This whole Shelter In Place & Homeschool thing is something else. We're just about to start Day 4, which in the scheme of things is nothing. I feel like I'm writing the opening chapters to The Diary of Anne Frank, the ones where she worries about things that were important Before but won't be by the end of the book.
So far we've managed to start school and work by 10 o'clock. Drew has set up a standing desk in the library. Thank goodness it's tall -- we didn't have to move much furniture to make it fit, and it can stay there for as long as we need. Granted, the shoe rack is now under the desk, but we don't need our shoes that often these days.
Danny is doing his schoolwork at his desk in his room. The paper packets that came home from school on Friday (was it really less than a week ago?) are lame, set by grade level to what they could know in September, so Danny is diving head first into Khan Academy. His math knowledge is going to be shallow with sudden surprising deep spots, but that's ok. I told him he needs to write for 20 minutes a day and he has started writing a novel. It's remarkably good! I didn't realize that my hyperlogical kid who never met a metaphor he understood had such creativity and storytelling in him.
Becky is trying to do her schoolwork in her room too. Many days that's just Epic Reading (yay for online education) and iReady or Starfall for math. Although on Monday we did start tackling multiplication, which was fun! Danny's old recliner is now in Becky's room, and she's very happy to sit there. Speaking of Becky, it's her 8th birthday today! My littlest extravert is having a rough time with the idea of not having anyone at a birthday party, but we'll have cake and candles, and a couple of gifts arrived in the mail. So she'll be ok.
I'm working as hard as ever. I thought this staying home thing would give me more time to read and do crafts, but so far I'm just going going going. Between keeping the kids on their schoolwork, getting paid work done for the law firm I work part-time for, and keeping the house running, I haven't had much more than 45 minutes free any given day. Needless to say I spend that time on social media.
So here we are. Let's see where this goes.
