After the first week of school was canceled due to the fires, we started out our week attempting to do online school again. We've begun a new tradition, the Monday Morning Muffin Meeting. We talked about the week ahead, anticipated assignments, made a shopping list of needed supplies and found solutions to some problems that cropped up. Hopefully coordinating together will help us all manage school better.
When the kids were settled into their first zoom classes for the day, Becky walked over to the Incident Command Post for the local fires. Since students and most teachers are working from home, the firefighters are using the middle school as their home base. The football field is covered in tents.
The post was mostly empty as everyone was out fighting fires. Becky spoke to a man who gave her a map from the morning's briefing and explained the fire situation to her. On Monday, our local news was still very spotty and this was the clearest, most reliable information she received since the fires started last Tuesday. She learned the Almeda fire to the south of us was out and the Obenchain fire to the north was still spreading east, but much slower than the week before. We finally felt comfortable enough to unpack our van.
On Wednesday afternoon Jason and Eddy came over and continued working on their shop projects with Gibson. They got all the pieces cut out for the desk organizers they are building. The boys used a jig saw, a band saw, a chop saw and a drill press.
We stayed inside the garage the entire time because the air quality outside was unhealthy. Gibson set up a camp chair to rest in while he waited his turn to use a saw.
Becky used her time inside to finish up another quilt top.
School is very portable right now. Gibson and Jason alternated houses for school, one day at our house, the next at Jason's.
Helen's friend, Aunika, came over to work on Friday. School is more fun with a friend!
We all took a deep breath on Friday when we could finally see blue sky.
The missionaries came to dinner Saturday night and one of the elders brought a cello so he could jam out with Gibson. They sounded pretty good! We currently have 4 elders serving in our area, the result of being reassigned due to Covid-19
Here's one more new tradition we've started for this school year. It's super easy to find fault with the current state of school. It's generous to call it a mess. But it's unhelpful to only see the failures. We're ending each week with a "Celebration of Success" where each person writes down a win for the week. Hopefully, we can think more about the positive aspects and the progress the kids are making.
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