Here we go again 3

We still have Sqk in school - his school class him as vulnerable plus Droroin is a health key worker as a pharmacist. But I am back trying to teach engineering online which is fun....

I’ve sent mine in this time... absolutely agonised over it...
keep them at home, can’t help my dad (care needs round the clock at the mo, little precious time left) teach them and look after mini-eat monkey.
Send them in, risk covid and isolation, and struggles with change and potentially have to isolate from my dad at a very crucial time..

It’s actually working for them at the mo... v small groups with a teacher/ ta doing virtual learning with them. Turns out this is there ideal schooling, v small groups, low pressure, v calm environment, removing complexity of whole class dynamics.

We’re taking it day by day

Glad you are still able to spend precious time with your Dad Choti and good that a quieter, less chaotic school environment is working for your minis.

We are rumbling on and actually doing fairly well - but the monotony is getting to us all.

How's everyone else?

Hard times.....we are all at home, and it is a struggle. My dear and spirited mum, 79, now comes twice a week to a gazebo(fortune tellers tent as she calls it)  -where we sit for 3 hours chatting away her last few months/years as she fades away ( alzheimers).  Lapwing and Peewit pop in to the gazebo now and again only able to do a few minutes of playing a guitar, showing some paintings, pulling faces as Nana strokes a pine cone instead of the cat...

I am trying to help my Mum and Stepdad sell their house, teach both children, watch as Lapwing becomes more and more despondant..

Upside? We live in Devon and there is acres of parkland, countryside, beach and moorland to ramble over - just like last lockdown Lapwing is regressing slowly to a younger self, which is a good thing, Peewit is amazing us both with his never ending glass half full attitude to life...he is a hero and keeps us all smiling with his endless projects and ideas. I can quite see how his sister despairs in the face of such unbendable positivity!

Such very hard times for our young ones and us all....xx

Sqk was coping well (in school thankfully) although struggling at moment as I was told yesterday I had a detached retina and need surgery in the next 2-3 weeks. Had to tell him as he bounce or jump on me. He struggles when I have a migraine so you can imagine how this has impacted. Dro and I have had a long conversation and agreed that although we will take him out of breakfast club for my pre-op quarantine period he will still go to school as he needs the routine and remote learning will not work for him. This came on top of the news of the death of a colleague (a week ago although we were told on Monday) who I knew fairly well. the Tuesday we got informed that one of our technicians (who I work closely with on several of my modules) is in a coma in ICU. So my news yesterday just put the icing on an already difficult week for the engineering team. Not that many people at work know yet - beyond those who absolutely need to.