It’s About Day 520 of the kids being home due to the Corona virus pandemic. The last two weeks have been spring break, virtual school started back up on Tuesday for six weeks of Tu-Th Elearning. They’ve moved the last day of school to May 21. May 21 was supposed to be Jackson’s Senior Jazz on the square. Oh the things we all took for granted and will now miss. We heard from NHS this past week and for now, graduation is still on for June 6. And therefore Js party is still on for June 5. We’ll wait and see. But NHS is trying to salvage some of the Senior events for our Class of 2020. 🖤💛

Izzy has been doing amazing through the past month. She has her moments, we all do, where we are just sad, or angry, or bored to death. But we’ve stayed busy with crafts and games and puzzles and of course our phones. The Elearning has been so so hard for her. But with the schedule we created (with lots of break time) and alarms on the phone, she really knocked it out of the park this first week back. She got to Zoom with her TOR and BSD class today, and her math teacher was on there with them also. They did a kahoot together and it was so wonderful to hear her interact and laugh with them. It actually made me sad…because they all need that interaction so much. But I shed my few tears in the bathroom so I didn’t make her sad. Iz won’t FaceTime her school friends because she’s just sure they don’t want to hear from her. Her friend Lainie is the only one she’s talked to and hasn’t even been able to talk to Lainie much.

She learned to ride her bike over spring break and is very much enjoying the freedom that comes with that. She has hit a couple parked cars, a mailbox, a garbage can and several bushes. And went head on into a bridge that is on one of our bike paths, but each time has brushed off the minor injuries and gotten right back on that bike. That’s impressive.

We had a tough session with Brad this week. She was doing great and then got ticked off and stopped communicating. It’s a mixed blessing when that happens when we’re “with” Brad. I don’t want our sessions to be tense and stressful because I feel like it’s wasting our session but if it’s gonna happen, I guess having it happen when Brad is fully available to us is a good thing.

She’s pulling like crazy now that school is “back in session.” She pulled two quarter sized bald patches on day one and continues to pull as we work through assignments.

This past weekend Jackson surprised us by choosing Purdue for his college days. And then Izzy had the extreme pleasure of helping Jackson announce his College decision to his family and friends via Facebook Live. He asked her to make yellow and black whipped cream and then put a pie tin full of it in his face to show his new school’s colors. She took that very seriously and prepared the perfect product. And wow how she enjoyed putting that whipped cream in his face and his hair! She has no idea how much she is going to miss him. 🖤💛