2. We’re still dealing with Covid…how are you, has anything changed since you last covered this topic?
I know we’re all done with Covid. I’m tired of talking about it, I’m tired of reading about it, I’m tired of arguing about it, I’m tired of being chastised vaguely on Facebook about it…I’m. Tired. Of. It. And I don’t even have it. My poor niece is STILL suffering the aftermath of how that virus hit her. She’s truly over it. But Covid is not done with us apparently.
For me, the first official day of this pandemic was March 16th because that is when my kids came home from school for good. School was canceled, volleyball was canceled, we managed to make our annual camping trip happen and Pat and I took the kids out of town for a weekend of isolation in a different town (but at least it had jet skis). I believe our county moved into Phase 1.5. Salons opened, people can gather in very small groups…but I don’t think our bars and restaurants are open.
Apparently our numbers (along with the rest of the country) have gone up so we are now in a phase “freeze”, none of our counties may move into the next phase. My family has been very lucky in that we have not been hit by covid yet. And while I know that is the most important thing, I’m also keeping my ears perked for fall sports and the return to school. I’ll be honest, in March I thought for sure things would be under control and back to normal by mid-summer. I never would have thought the start of the school year might get disrupted.
And yet here we are. Midsummer and the start of the school year is already disrupted. Our school year always begins in the first week of Septemeber, but we have already received confirmation that our school district will be long-distance learning at the start of the year. I fall into the category of parents who really wanted the kids to go back. But I also want the teachers and kids safe.
Did I mention that I started doing some of Kainoa’s schoolwork during the last episode of long-distance learning? It really opened my eyes to what the expectations were of him and let me tell you…they were too high. I wanted to live a day in his life. I started by cleaning up his 600+ unread emails and then one by one logged into each class. The teachers were definitely overcompensating for the lack of in-class time by requiring work to replace it in addition to homework assignments. At one point I had at least 5 necessary tabs open to complete a single assignment. I hope it was a good learning experience and that adjustments will be made when the kids get back online this fall because I don’t know if I can commit to that level of learning again. ;)
Lastly, some of our fall sports have moved to spring. This includes volleyball of course and while it’s too bad the kids can’t get back to playing, I am glad it wasn’t canceled altogether. Fingers crossed things will be normal next SPRING. I’m having trouble seeing an end in sight at this point. If our country cannot function at this level of illness and there is no vaccine…when would we ever feel comfortable functioning at full capacity again? If there is a vaccine…will anyone feel comfortable taking it?
I hate this virus!
Beverly Nickerson says
Good you checked that out. Will the school take parental imput on that? The thing about on-line learning, even for college—-is a tendency to overload the homework aspects. I don’t have kids, but according to the local paper, schools here in our North Florida county were really caught off guard to have to flip to on-line. This fall 3 options are available: actually attend school or two choices of online school either thru the local school or through the county. (The county level was what was done during lockdown. )The paper said the schools promise online will be more challenging since they’re prepared now (as compared to whatever was thrown together back in spring.)
Kim says
Hang in there! Covid didn’t affect me all that much (other than making me terrified I’d catch it for about the first two months, and cancelling my summer of concerts – BOO! HISS!) but I know this has got to be really hard on families, especially with kids that are used to their routine and outside-the-home activities. We’ve entered a new normal for sure, but hopefully things will be better soon.
I hope your niece continues to improve. As an aside, I think my son and I had this LAST JUNE. Or at least what this current strain morphed from. We were both so, so sick, had all the main symptoms, tested negative for flu and strep. It took me about 2 months to fully recover, and my breathing has been worse since. I also got sick again in January pretty bad, but not as bad as the first time around.
The kitty is adorable, and I LOVE that chair! I’m trying to decide between a peacock blue or chartreuse velvet for my sofa reupholstery project. I love both colors,, but chartreuse is my favorite and it might go better with my orange and turquoise vinyl chair and ottoman than peacock blue. But the blue won’t stain as bad. Decisions, decisions!
madamdreamweaver says
Perhaps Kim of Storms & Stardust might read this, but otherwise perhaps you could let her know her comments reject an http and keep asking for “URL” so I can never leave a comment. Surely, I’m not the only one who can’t leave a comment?
Kim says
I’m so sorry….I had no idea that was happening. Others have been able to leave comments, but like you said – you may not be the only one who can’t. I have noticed on some sites that I can’t just use my url, I have to use a WordPress dot com profile, and if I sign out of wp dot com, it forces me to sign back in because my url info is the same. So I’ve had to resort to just hot linking my url in the comment itself. Is it something like that? I have jetpack, so some other options are twitter or FB profiles, but It sure is infuriating that you can’t leave a normal reply with your url. Again, I’m sorry. I’ll look into it, but honestly have no idea how to fix it.
John Holton says
Commenting really late on this. I ran into trouble trying to leave a comment last week, and I told myself “I’ll just go back and try again” and forgot about it until today…
Were you doing Kainoa’s homework for him, or just trying it out for yourself? Just curious.
I hope your kids do get a chance to go back to school before much longer. I’ve seen a couple of articles that seem concerned for their mental health (not to mention yours)…
How are the kittens, including mama, who’s probably one herself.? They’re so cute…