I have to be honest – I have my hands full managing the boys, which means that Ane is really on her own when it comes to her classes. But that doesn’t mean that she is on her own.  The current situation has really illustrated which teachers are trying, which teachers aren’t, and which teachers […]

I’ve tried, but Tad’s heart belongs to marine biology.  There is no way I can get him deeply interested in history – especially drier, abstract concepts like the Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 under President Andrew Jackson.  But that’s what he’s doing right now in history. So, he’s drawing a comic strip. He is learning a […]

Thumper has a lot of work to do on his handwriting.  His fine motor skills overall are on the weak side, and his hand grip is very loose for a lot of things. His school OT pointed me to an app that he liked using at school, Writing Wizard for Kids.  So we bought it […]

There are too many Zoom meetings to keep track of, and inevitably, even though I have everything written down on a schedule, there was a Mom Fail. I forgot both Thumper’s PE and Music Zoom meetings, because they are quick back-to-back ten minute ones.  *sigh* So I took him for a walk to the coffee […]