Just Like That...
10/24/2020
...and just like that - poof! - summer is gone. I guess it's been gone for a while now, but it has been such a mild fall that it has still felt like summer, with days in the high 80's and 90's, and then with our homeschool schedule, it didn't feel like we'd transitioned at all. And yet, we are set to get snow this next week. This weekend we will finish up winterizing the house, though there is not much to do. We do need to insulate some pipes and the new sump pump greywater housing. This year has been sort of a blur, with almost three-quarters of the year passed while we played at home. We have gotten so much done, just slowing down and staying home. I know I've probably mentioned it before, but it really is true. I'm grateful for the time we have and the projects we have done, the shared love of our family. It has been a rough year, yes, but in many ways I have felt calmer than most other years, the pressure of gatherings and holidays approaching, and yet I know we will just be at home. Less stress, more longing for company. I'm grateful for what I have, the company of my boys and my husband.
I was worried that we'd have run out of homeschooling material by now. I let my son pick what he wanted to learn about, and we had a list of five things up on the white board. We started with volcanoes. I roughly planned the lessons for a week... and we are just feeling finished with learning about them now, 10 weeks later. So, maybe our four remaining learning ideas left will last us the rest of the year...
With the waning of summer, and the preparation for winter, I felt like I should take the time to clean up my desktop and work on posting some of the photos that I've been meaning to, so here is a plethora of summertime-feeling photos, mostly of the boys, as they are mostly who I see. Playing in water, dressing up in costumes, investigating what we find - our summer summed up in a couple dozen or so photos, just staying home and living life - just like that.
I was worried that we'd have run out of homeschooling material by now. I let my son pick what he wanted to learn about, and we had a list of five things up on the white board. We started with volcanoes. I roughly planned the lessons for a week... and we are just feeling finished with learning about them now, 10 weeks later. So, maybe our four remaining learning ideas left will last us the rest of the year...
With the waning of summer, and the preparation for winter, I felt like I should take the time to clean up my desktop and work on posting some of the photos that I've been meaning to, so here is a plethora of summertime-feeling photos, mostly of the boys, as they are mostly who I see. Playing in water, dressing up in costumes, investigating what we find - our summer summed up in a couple dozen or so photos, just staying home and living life - just like that.
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When you asked mama to spray you with the hose one too many times...
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