Fine, so the kiddos here have been back in school for over a month, but August was a bit much, so here we are. The whole return to school is still more than a bit much, but I'm managing my anxiety about it a bit better than I was six weeks ago. I still hold that the nieces and nephew could all come over to my house to learn arts and crafts, cook, play Big Brain Academy*, Wii Sports, Wii Fit Plus, and Wii Sports Resort and they would come through just fine. Add in some Duolingo for the oldest niece to keep up with her foreign languages and we're soaring above the trees. If we're feeling especially ambitious, we can add in the less glamorous home ec stuff and do a bit of cleaning and laundry, and there will always be yard work that needs doing.
Ah, but that is not how we are doing things, and I understand why it is not. My inability to take care of them all five days a week not being the least of it. I'm mostly joking about keeping them all out of school, but with the way the world is going, I'm kind of not joking at all. Anyway, I do what I can, and I can make masks. I sewed a bunch and then sewed a bunch more for my older brother's friend's kid.
In the meantime, it's medical stuffs running amok, a bit. We were in the hospital last month (non-COVID) and it was wild and they wanted us out of there as soon as possible. I mean, he was admitted due to dehydration, and when they first got ready to discharge him he had unexpected vomiting, and if we could have found a way to get him to the car they would have had him go home, even though he couldn't even hold down a sip of water. Did I mention that we were one room away from one of the plastic-ed-off COVID units? The icing on the cake is that the unimportant (temporary--it was done and gone a day later) vomiting is now what some of the healthcare providers have seized upon as very important and they've changed up medicines and we have not had good results. It's all a bit tiring, and healthcare folks are tired, too. We're all just doing our best.
Anyway, in spite of it all, I think were doing decently okily-dokily. I'll be back soon, and I even have knitting. I'm just as shocked as you are.
*Did you see that their will be a Switch version of Big Brain Academy coming out in December? I can't wait!
