Sunday, August 9, 2020

August Mini Break

Not to much going on around here. The A/C is fixed, and the our solar system is in process, so this place should be pretty perfect in a few weeks. We've continued to hit up the beach almost every week day, and after a long wait, our bike rack has finally arrived and the trailer hitch has been installed on the car. Once Tim finishes lunch we're going to borrow Grizz's bike and head out for a family bike ride. Let's all hope for the best - Adam still hasn't done much outside of the school grounds on his bike. However, I got a great used bike a couple of weeks ago and that's been awesome for me! 

School starts a week from Monday, and due to state restrictions, it'll be fully online (I wouldn't have sent the kids into a classroom at this point anyways.) The biggest downside is that learning is set to start at 8:30, and I am not pleased about the idea of having to set an alarm again. Since our first Zoom of the morning in the spring was 10:30am, we had very leisurely mornings. The plan for distance learning for the new school year is that the kids will do live learning at several points throughout the day, and then complete work on their own (versus in the spring, when Ellie's class did twice weekly Zooms, more about checking in, less about going over new concepts and being taught.) We'll see how it all goes. I feel for the teachers to have to get all of this figured out, and to try to control a bunch of new, rowdy nutbars over video learning. 

We spent last week up in Northern California with Tim's college roommate Bob and his family. Ellie and Adam are thick as thieves with their two oldest, Amelia and Bobby, and are addicted to playing Minecraft and facetiming together. We didn't do much outside of hanging in their house (we went to get gelato twice, was the sum of our adventures) but the kids had a blast gaming together, doing water balloons and scootering. For the adults, sometimes it's just nice to have another set of hands around, and someone else to play Bananagrams and have a beer with after the kids go to bed. We're trying to plan a bubble trip where we can get an AirBnB someplace in between our houses. Being in Northern California made me very grateful that we can go to the ocean so easily, and that we have the deluxe membership package at Thiel Resort and Spa. 

Tim and I also celebrated fifteen years of marriage at the end of July. We had to cancel our planned anniversary trip back in March, but still had a really great day - spent the morning at the beach with the kids, and then for dinner we got fancy take out, and ordered cake from the same bakery that made our wedding cake, and had dinner with our maid of honor and best man, and our neighbor friends. I told the kids I wanted once nice picture of all of us for fifteen years and got....

I'll take what I can get. 


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