It's the End of the World as We Know It

and I feel fine...

Well, maybe or maybe not. I'm not sick or feeling sick, but it is tough to have 2 working parents at home who are attempting to do E-School.

We have officially been in the house together as a family for 4 full days and so far we have spent many hours watching "Don't Make Me Laugh" on YouTube and "How to Solve a 2 by 2 Rubik Cube" (also, YouTube). While these activities may be fun for the 8-year old, the parents are so OVER the YouTube videos. This is also a time to mention that we only have one TV in our house, so if YouTube videos are on, nothing else can be watched.

We are a huge sports family so not having sports to watch has really been tough on all of us.

So what do we do now?

Well, we tried to go to the basketball court hoping that no one would be there, but apparently, social distancing is a concept we don't really understand because there were probably 20-30 kids there.

So, home we go.

We set up an obstacle course in the backyard, and then it started raining.

We went for a walk around the neighborhood, but again, it started raining. Good thing we aren't made of sugar.

We pulled out some games. That was fun until the wrong person won and in our house, that's usually the dad.

So, I'm back to YouTube or jumping into E-Learning, even though it's a 'teacher work-day'.

All joking aside, it's been a great experience today for me to see how my kiddo does while engaged on a computer. He did a great job on computer-based practice and we did lots of reading.

The key to all of this is to be flexible. When working with a kid one-on-one, some of them need a specific schedule and some can be more flexible. We will be starting our official schedule tomorrow because Mama and Daddy have to work!