I cannot believe it’s been so long since I last blogged. I mean, it’s not like I had anything else to do with my time being on quarantine. Seriously.

Actually earlier I posted an entry that was overshare. So much TMI that I decided to take it down. Sorry. For the 2 of you who read it, my problem appears to have cleared up–hooray!

A big part of why I’ve been gone is because Thaddeus has been using my computer to play Minecraft and Roblox and talk to his friends, which… I suppose I’ll write more about later.

The adorable thing is that both Thaddeus and Poppy are learning a lot of new words from reading (okay, a lot of that from reading the screen on video games) but they have these adorable pronunciations of words they’ve only encountered in print. For example, “Queue,” which they are their friends pronounce “Kwee.” I have tried correcting them but to no avail. I just hope they don’t turn into adults who type “Walla!” instead of “Voila!” because then I will have failed everything that is important in this life.

So we’re at our 5 week mark here in quarantine. And it’s sort of like what they say when your kids are babies and they’re trying to make you feel better, “the days are long but the years are short.” Or in our quarantine case, “the days are long but the weeks are also long.” I have nearly given up on all the fantastic lesson plans I brought up here to keep Thaddeus educated. I mean, he’s probably going to fail 5th grade except that as a homeschooler I get to assign his grades so he’s earning a solid D-.

Poppy, on the other hand, is thriving. Well, she misses her friends, but primarily she does she school work on her own. Twice weekly she has a video chat with one of her teachers and it actually goes quite well. I’m just glad that one of my two children fall into the academically easy category because if I had two of Thaddeus, things would not be pretty.

How are you all doing?