“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
– Robert Jordan
It has been a long week. But we get a reprieve from the insanity of simultaneously working and parenting from home with this four-day Easter long weekend.
The big change this week was T’s teachers are online and we are so glad to have their support!
T’s teachers give us a daily list of literacy, math and fun activities to do and it’s reduced the prep we need to do and T loves them.
We’ve played connect the dots (to 100) and counting games, learned about sight words and T is sounding out more words, made a spaceship and homemade tattoos & did more child labour, I mean, life skills.
We have short daily video calls with his teachers and it’s helping things feel more normal. We’re going to try a chat with his classmates next week. The teacher says it’ll be a shit show. Actually, the term he used was “gong show” but we know what he meant! T’s class is a gang of misfits and we can’t wait for the comedy!
As we told his teacher, we’re hanging on by a thread. It‘s still challenging to balance our work with T. Each day is not a consistent routine and it throws T off. But the hubby and I are getting better and we’re cutting ourselves more slack. No need for perfection, just need to get to the end of the day.
We spent a relaxing and quiet Good Friday at home. I mean, where else would we be?
We introduced T to the movie Home Alone and he loved it. He laughed out loud numerous times.
We also dyed eggs. We bought plastic eggs to be animal friendly but the dye didn’t stick well. So we sacrificed one egg for T to see what it was supposed to look like.
After dinner, I stood by the kitchen and enjoyed the calming glow of the setting sun as it cast a mesmerizing glow over the backyard.
The perennials are starting to poke out from the ground. The dull dead dark tones from the last few weeks are slowly being erased by greens and colourful accents.
I also reflected on the meaningful symbolism of Easter; of sacrifice, death, love and resurrection.
Nature is resilient. Through the death of winter and the hope of Spring. Everything passes. Through hardship, nature endures and blooms once again.
Wishing everyone a wonderful Easter long weekend and please continue to stay well and take good care!
Thanks for sharing! Love your honesty & hopefulness! ❤️
The “Gong show” sounds like it will be a lot of fun 🙂 Good job on the “life skills” too – made me smile 🙂 We’ve been digging into some old movies for the kids too. We’re on The Great Outdoors right now. Fun to watch (some) of these old movies again 😉
Will have to add Great Outdoors to the list! 🙂 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is also another classic we want to introduce to T. Have a good rest of your Easter weekend. Hope D enjoys every moment!