It’s starting to feel like fall here, except of course it feels like bizarro-fall. My husband (a HS teacher) is back at work, attending zoom meetings while wearing a mask. His students arrive in cohorts next week. I’m waiting for the email with my first grader’s teacher assignment, realizing I forgot to initial the COVID forms from my son’s preschool, making and re-making lists of things I can cook for dinner while I’m also writing a book. My kids will be in school in opposite shifts (AM preschool; PM elementary school cohort) and so I’m also trying to figure out how to compress the things I do for work (teaching, writing) and fun (running) into a small window or how to make them young-kid friendly. (For example, my five year old is an emergent [I think that’s the official term?] reader, so she can practice reading while I make a rough outline for my class if this happens while her little brother is at school and so she’s not also competing with him for my attention. Or, I can run with my son in the jogging stroller [WHY did I give away the double-version last fall?] while my daughter is in afternoon school.)
The Air in August
The Air in August
The Air in August
It’s starting to feel like fall here, except of course it feels like bizarro-fall. My husband (a HS teacher) is back at work, attending zoom meetings while wearing a mask. His students arrive in cohorts next week. I’m waiting for the email with my first grader’s teacher assignment, realizing I forgot to initial the COVID forms from my son’s preschool, making and re-making lists of things I can cook for dinner while I’m also writing a book. My kids will be in school in opposite shifts (AM preschool; PM elementary school cohort) and so I’m also trying to figure out how to compress the things I do for work (teaching, writing) and fun (running) into a small window or how to make them young-kid friendly. (For example, my five year old is an emergent [I think that’s the official term?] reader, so she can practice reading while I make a rough outline for my class if this happens while her little brother is at school and so she’s not also competing with him for my attention. Or, I can run with my son in the jogging stroller [WHY did I give away the double-version last fall?] while my daughter is in afternoon school.)