August rolled around, without a reopening date, but what was another month or two while they figured things out? I enrolled the kids in a “learning camp” for September (quickly renamed "fake school"), thinking it would bridge the gap until the school district got organized. It was OK, but not great enough to justify the cost, and between the pandemic and recuperation from knee rebuilding surgery #2, Daddy would be working from home for the foreseeable future, so we decided it would be fine to spend October doing school at home. We're just hanging around the house, there's nothing to post about.
Brennan DID build a chair at Fake School. I’ve lovingly dubbed it My $1900 Chair.
It looks pretty good with the outdoor furniture I purchased so we could have friends over, when the air wasn’t filled with smoke from the catastrophic fires.
Also I bought a puppy, because by that point, I had pretty much lost my damn mind.
By the end of November, private schools had re-opened, Biden was elected, and Pfizer sought emergency use approval for the vaccine. And I thought, Can't be much longer now, I'll get back to posting in 2021.
We spent Thanksgiving in Palm Springs, which got us some sun and pool time without having to get on an airplane.
We also used Lucie’s 4th grade National Park Pass to visit Joshua Tree.
Then California cases spiked, school re-opening was delayed, again, and I had several time consuming projects: 1. getting vaccinated as a "essential worker" who didn't fit into the standard categories (healthcare? agriculture? other?) 2. surviving the deluge of housebound people who now had time for their pets, or time to get a pet; 3. writing angry emails to local politicians and school administrators; 4. 7th grade math. I'm too busy to post, so I’m just going to act like these months never happened.
Over the winter, we did get some skiing in, likely thanks to Governor Newsom’s business interests at Squaw Valley, but whatever.
February 2021, I completed my first project - getting vaccinated - allowing me time for a new project: 5. Protest marches and collecting signatures for school board recall.
By the time school partially, pathetically re-opened for elementary students, I wasn't sure I wanted to bother with the blog ever again.
But then I decided, if I never came back, it kind of looks like we didn't make it, or are lost to a dystopian future with no internet.
So here it, Lucie first day of in-person 4th Grade on April 22, 2021:
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