I have really had a hard time posting. I've avoided it for awhile, really, because while there were some bright spots over the summer, we've also experienced some crazy hard times in our family. Some of the worst, actually. I thought maybe if I posted just a brief few sentences, it wont feel like this big looming 'I haven't posted in 2 months' feeling of dread.
The start to school was last week has been a little rocky. My son has come home every day from 1st grade and said 'It's awful'.... My daughter on the otherhand has come home from 4th grade and said she loves it. Both of them have been truly exhausted after school and it hasn't been pretty here. They surely will need some time to adjust to all day school again. The other issue is I am very concerned about covid. Our governor said no schools can mandate masks, so some districts challenged that and did it anyway, our school district did not. When we had the open house last monday I'd say 20% were wearing masks? On the first day of school maybe just 10%? My son said a boy in his clase wore his, but when he saw noone else wearing one, he took his off. I know that's exactly what my kids would do too.
I'll write more later, but I wanted to at least get the ball rollin back on here and say hello, we are ok, but things have been so, so hard.
