TGIF

At this point, I'm getting excited that there are only two weeks left until school is out for summer.   I approach the end of school with a fair amount of trepidation largely because I don't know how I'm going to keep my blind child entertained and/or occupied through the long days of isolating summer.   Perhaps we'll be more together soon, but the amount of hesitation from everyone coupled with us wanting to stay safe for the sake of my in-laws and I'm not sure how much longer this is going to go on.

The thought of sleeping in and letting the children get their own breakfast multiple days running sounds like a nice respite from school, but the lack of activities is going to come in to play fairly early on into summer.  

For my daughter, it will be sooner than my son—if we were to let him have his fondest wish and spend all day on screens, going from watching videos to playing video games and back.   It's been raining for I think over a week now, which the dog dislikes because we won't let her stay out and get muddy—something she would happily do.

We've been planning activities and school over summer work and have asked the teachers for some assignments, but I think we're going to have to wait until the second week of summer to really see the impacts from school being out.   Maybe I should buy stock in Audible...

The Big Boy Update:  My son put together two Tinker Crates from KiwiCo today.   He made a walking robot and an automaton.   They really are neat little cardboard boxes with activities in them each month.   My son wasn't into them at first, but now he looks forward to each month's mailing.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter is currently squealing outside in the rain.   She loves the warm rain of spring and has had her rainboots and raincoat on standby every day.   Her gear is pretty useless though because she comes in drenched every time.