The debate all day long was if the kids could read for their 30 mins in the tree. Can we climb the tree? Can we do this in the tree?.... Do you know what happens when you kids don't have friends to play with. You join their made up fire club. I don't like imaginary play. I would play board games all day long...house, puppy, school, not so much. But after your 11 year old can only handle so much fake fire you step in get inducted into the fire club. Yes Grant made up the Fire Club. No there is no fire. At first he thought I was too old - you had to be less than 25, but since enrollment was down he decided to make an exception. Remember that pile of rocks that I gave the kids to move? Well I did with them what I wanted (see pictures below) but there were still quite a bit leftover. I thought it might be fun for them to stack the rocks. We had seen that by the lake in Michigan last summer. Grant wanted to make a fire ring and thus the Fire Club was born. What does one have to do to enter the Fire Club? 1) Toss 10 rocks into the "ring of fire" which is a pile of rocks, which mean they bounce off and it is actually quite hard. 2) Make a rock stand up to look a like a flame 3) Match two rocks together 4) Push the kids really high in the swing (I think they just wanted me to push them in the swing!)
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| My zen rock garden...it could also represent different homes - separate yet still connected |
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| Lots of math today for Grant! |
They did their schoolwork in the morning really well. Elizabeth's was a little light. Grant is doing better taking his class chats in an upright position. I actually left the house and ran errands, which seemed really weird. I went to the bank, Walgreens and the greenhouse and never got out of my car.
The request for dinner was meatballs. Luckily I had some in the freezer from when I made a batch last time. We have had tomato plants in the past and I started making homemade tomato sauce. However, last year because of the move we didn't have any and I am very concerned about the wildlife having a buffet if we create a garden here. I have found the San Marzan tomatoes are the best. A few months ago when we were in Eatly (wow when we used to be able to go places!) in Chicago we bought canned whole san marzan tomatoes. Well Brandon found some at Costco. He sent me a picture and asked how many I wanted. I said 6. They were #10 size cans! So we opened one of those up and worked on our homemade sauce - with non-home grown tomatoes. And all I can say, there is no reason for us plant tomatoes!
At 6:30 we said - wow this is too early for dinner. So Brandon and I walked around the yard looking at the landscaping, progress and beauty!
We ate at 7:30 :)
Grant just informed me there is a Fire Club meeting tomorrow at 3:30 - he hopes I can make it!
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| Eb figured out how to stack them. Also representing family togetherness...yet social distancing |
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| Brandon caved and said -Go climb the tree! |
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| Pici bread with homemade sauce! |
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