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Saturday started out great. I slept in, then had Council Fire / breakfast on the porch, then Lloyd and I spent the rest of the morning cleaning and organizing the upstairs. Whew! t Then I took a shower, came downstairs, and dropped my iPad – edgefirst – onto my little toe. Ouch! Ouch ouch ouch! […]

We are using a bleach solution for much of our sanitizing, since we are doing even more cleaning than we usually do, bleach solution is pretty safe to use around kids. The trouble is that it has to be mixed up daily since it breaks down quickly. I told everyone I would do the daily […]

Great, great, great, good, good, ok, not so good, crabby Mrs. Sommerer, not so good. It was fine. It was like the first day of VBS – everyone is shell-shocked with the newness of the situation and on their best behavior. After lunch it was like day two, where they figure out the ropes and […]

Today the child development center opens after being closed for 2 1/2 months. The staff has been working hard to get protocols in place so that everything is as safe and routines go as smoothly as possible. There are a lot of restrictions for us: class-size, staying in one space with one class, staff wearing […]

I forgot to write a post last night, so I’m catching up this morning. Today (Friday) is the last day before we re-open. I am super-great at procrastinating and denial, so I’ve been doing lots and lots of jobs around the building, but meanwhile, my room is the last thing to get ready. I spent […]

Out in my tiny garden, there have been some mysterious holes. When I first noticed them, I thought they might be vole holes, or maybe snake holes? Maybe toad holes? Giant spiders? I tried looking inside with a flashlight, and gently poking with a stick, but I didn’t want to poke a giant spider snake […]