Off we go!

It was Reed's last first day at LCPS. Only two more to go for Amy. 

Didn't we just send them off to kindergarten?!

We did our traditional "breakfast for dinner" the night before school started, and this year we even remembered to include both their grade AND their names (we forgot for the last THREE years!). [Note: we also finally got good at it – Tod realized I had extra squirt bottles leftover from tie dying projects, and those worked perfectly!]

Of course this isn't exactly a normal school year. The kids will be doing school from home at least through the first semester, which runs into January. Who knows if they'll be back in school after that....fingers crossed.

Since both kids already have their own computer desk area, fortunately we didn't need to do much to prepare for virtual learning. Reed has his basement lair, and Amy is ensconced in the formal living room. I continue to work in my upstairs office (that is really a bedroom).

Reed even spent part of the first day doing class from the back deck – why not, the weather was great!

They didn't run into any technical problems yet, so that's a plus! Amy is uneasy with participating in the interactive parts of class, but hopefully she'll take some deep breaths and just give it a whirl. The schedule is a little bit weird, they have Mondays to basically work on their own (and get help if it's needed), and then on Tuesday/Wednesday they have their A day classes, and on Thursday/Friday they have their B day classes. Each day has built in time for doing classwork with the teacher available, so that's a plus. Hopefully they won't have to do much schoolwork outside of these hours, given that it's all "home"work at this point.

This is certainly not the year anyone was thinking would happen, but here we are. We will make the best of it, hopefully our resilience will do us good.

OH, and I almost forgot that THIS happened! Senior photos!!!!