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The Bunch Finish Week 1 of School and Build a Fort

Things have been getting back to a more normal pre-pandemic level at our house now that school is back in session. Nothing about how we do school has changed except that we have no sports practices. I am so glad that the new homeschooling issues that have plagued my public school counter parts has not effected us at all. We already knew what to do and have been doing it for the past 12 years. I don't want to say I am a pro at it, but I definitely have not had any where near the stress level that other parents are having. The kids and I really hope this homeschooling lesson will give people more insight into what homeschooling is really like and stop some of the insane questions we use to get. The kids did really well at school this week and begrudgingly adjusted to doing school again with less complaining than I expected. A is super excited that her math class is Consumer Math. After all the issues she had with Geometry last year, her senior year is pretty relaxed. Most of her harder classes that are required are done and she only has 4 classes to take. Physics is her hardest class this year. She was pretty happy about how little time her school takes this year. She was done by lunchtime everyday this week. 

Given how busy we were with school this week we did not really draw anything from the jar. One thing we did draw from the jar was make a fort. We had a lot of fun turning our living room into a giant fort. T makes forts all the time and really has his fort making technique down pat so it only took us about 10 minutes to make our fort, but we had lots of laughs while we did it!




We are slowly expanding our pandemic bubble. We started out only going to visit my parents once a week and now we have seen my in laws a couple of times plus this weekend we are going to visit another homeschool family that we use to do several things with. We aren't going to have a big party anytime soon, but it is nice to see family and friends on a small basis. We miss seeing everyone! 


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