Homeschool

School looks a bit different this year. With the pandemic still in full swing, Diana and I decided that it wouldn't be a good idea to put Ledger at risk daily at school. So we made the difficult decision to enroll him in remote learning for this year. It's a huge commitment and challenge, but as a former teacher I figured I'd be better equipped than most to handle it. We are lucky in that Diana and my schedules allow us both to be home almost every weekday with Ledger.

In order to be able to do remote learning we needed to have a place for him to do his school work. We decided that we wanted to have a designated place for schoolwork, we didn't want him to use the desk in his room. The separation of school and the rest of life was going to be critical if we wanted to have any sort of success with this program. I went to the employee store at work and found some desk parts for a dollar each. I was able to fashion together a nice sturdy desk for him for 4 dollars- nice!

Even though the situation was going to be so different and weird, we also wanted to try and maintain some sort of normalcy for him. We continued to do our usual start of the year traditions: we went shopping for school supplies, got him some new outfits, and even had him pose out on the porch for his first day of school photos! One tradition that Diana and I have had since we first sent him that first day of preschool is that the two of us would go out for breakfast together! Since he was going to school at home this year, we brought him along! We drove through McDonalds and brought the food back home to eat because there weren't really any restaurants open at the moment...

And so begins this strange school year adventure!