Long Weekend / No School
This long weekend had a different feel. It still felt like a long weekend as we didn't do school and Brian didn't work. Plus we got outside to do some yard work. My flower garden is weeded and new flowers are planted that I got with my grocery order. (A perk. They gave them to me for free with my large order. This happens when you can only do online pick up orders every two weeks). We cleared up some brush along the tree-line of fallen trees that we will use for future backyard campfires. Hadley drove the lawn tractor for the first time as we collected the brush, she drove down the tree line for us to put our collections in. She was pretty excited to do this! Plus Brian also got the lawn got cut. I love spending time outside when there is beautiful weather. It wasn't all wonderful weather thought, so on one of the rainy days we watched Back To The Future for the first time with the kids. Such a good movie.
On Tuesday the government announced that there would be no return to school in June. So, we will continue with at home learning. The teachers have been fantastic about providing learning opportunities and we work away each day at learning for about 4 hours. Today while the kids were working away at projects I decided I would give making home-made donuts a try. I think they were a success!
Also in the governments announcement was a decision about summer camps. No over night summer camps.
So, while we will take a break from school for the summer, the summer will look much different this year as we embrace all that is our backyard. Today, Hadley went into the wet area to the west of our house, she was knee deep wet with her running shoes, and she was happy to do it, to rescue a frisbee, we went skipping and biking down our road. I am sure more adventures like these will be what we experience over the coming months. We have already done kite flying, baseball, built forts, and balance beams and other such things in the backyard, but there are so many things we can explore!