Feels like Saturday! Is it Saturday? Is every day Saturday? Could be, could be.

Poppy asked if she and I could write a book together. Can we write a book together? HELL YEAH. She was very excited when I opened it up in Scrivener, the program professional writers use for, you know, writing. And as it turns out, she’s an excellent writer. With a wicked sense of humor. And that’s gotta be nurture over nature since she’s adopted and didn’t get those writing genes from me. Check out a sample, which was 100% her (except I cleaned up the punctuation and capitalization).

“Oh, is that Fiona your bunny?” said Marley.
“Yeah, I got her for this birthday!” said Verity.
“Right, I don’t care as long as they’re not cats. I’m allergic to cats and they’re vicious,” said Austin
“Yeah we know. You tell us a lot,” said Verity.

Poor Austin. Massive burn from Verity there. Ouch. I’m looking forward to more adventures of Verity, Marley, and Austin. Yay writing! And I feel like that really counts for homeschooling, right? I mean, straight up ELA there. Creative writing. Fiction. It counts.

I think it’s interesting to think about what kinds of unexpected things are coming out of this quarantine. I had a video chat with a group of friends I have known online for 16 years. We’ve supported each other through thick and thin, and I’ve met a couple offline, but for the most part we’ve never had a real time group talk. So we did. And we all said that we couldn’t believe it had taken a global pandemic to finally get on the computer at the same time and chat.

I know a lot of people are playing board games on video chats too. I mean, I don’t think I ever would have thought of that prior to this thing. I wonder what else this quarantine is spawning that we never would have thought of before?