DAY 27

We started off the day with a Scholastic story about a young woman, Veronica Watson, who won a contest making her a master model builder at Legoland Discovery Center in Yonkers, New York. She worked there for two years after college and then left to study architecture at Colombia University. We talked about how Lego bricks can be used in math, and did an activity that involved calculating the volume of a Lego building. (Length x width x height = volume, in case you are wondering). We then created new species of bugs that have never before been seen on the planet. Kind of like this corona virus bug. Miss Nine wrote a note to her teacher explaining how this story and activity connected with her own life. We took pictures of our bugs and also sent them to the teacher.


Next came art class, which today meant painting a rainbow on the dining room window. We posted it to the Facebook page Rainbows Over Michigan. https://www.facebook.com/groups/714162149389867/ Miss Nine kept saying, "I can't believe you are letting me paint on the windows!" I am allowing a lot of things these days that I normally would not.

We had about a dozen apples that were on the verge of getting too soft, so we made applesauce. It's so yummy when it's warm. A little cinnamon on top makes it even better.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to maintain any semblance of good mental health. Weeks of isolation is wearing on all of us. This little girl is trying hard to understand why her world has been turned upside down. It's heartbreaking to listen to her asking when it will be over, will she be able to have her birthday party in July, when can she see her friends and her cousins. This afternoon she was very sad, and seemed so depressed that I reached out to the school counselor. I am hoping that she can Zoom or Facetime with her in the near future. Today she said "I don't know how to feel about any of this". I told her that whatever she was feeling was the right way. I keep reassuring her that we are all having a hard time, and that it is normal to be confused and sad. She and Papa are camping out in the t.v. room. Papa thinks that a campout can fix anything that ails you.

Oh, and thanks to whoever left the Easter surprise in our Little Free Library! Chocolate is good medicine, too!