Family is still working and doing school remotely. But trying to have fun.
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| Finally got around to making the gingerbread house |
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| Mary made a hat, booties, and little sweater for Maddy's polar bear family |
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| Played monopoly with the kids (Mary ended up owing the railroads & utilities) |
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| Snow leopard at the zoo (don't think we've ever seen it up that close) |
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| Maddy made dinner for papa's birthday-French onion soup and hot cider |
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| Mini raspberry and hazelnut pies for pie day (March 3.14) |
Despite lockdowns and remote work and school, life goes on as we're happy to stay healthy and employed. We're lucky to celebrate Easter, do virtual school and summer camps, have Maddy do her red belt test online (she wouldn't let us take any pictures), go to the zoo, and play mini-golf, start school again (online), celebrate the kids birthdays, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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| Graffiti reminder to wear your masks |
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| Home schooling |
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| Learning how to cook with papa |
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| Easter Egg hunt |
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| Found one on the porch |
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| Sidewalk chalk art |
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| David got into mowing the lawn |
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| Summer camp in a box |
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| Virtual lessons to go with camp |
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| Beach in Hull, MA |
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| Wakefield lake |
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| At the zoo |
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| Driving range (and ice cream) at Kimball Farms |
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| First day of 5th grade online! |
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| First day of 7th grade online! |
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| David wanted ice cake just like Uncle Bill's |
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| Maddy made her cake-yellow with white icing |
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| Animal encounters with a porcupine |
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| Snake handling |
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| Maddy wanted a grown-up chair for her room |
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| Still not TOO big to sit in the box the chair came in.. |
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| We carved pumpkins for the first time (rather than draw faces) |
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| Steam punk and Kakashi costumes |
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| It wouldn't be Christmas without chocolate advent calendars |
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| Making gingerbread cookies |
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| Glacier polar bear |
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| New head phones |
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2020 can be neatly broken down into BEFORE and AFTER the onset of the corona virus (aka covid-19).
The before: New glasses and a red belt test for David, Holiday party for Mary & Laurent, Winter concerts for both kids, cub scout first aid demo at fire house, field trip at MIT for Maddy, Kung Fu demonstration for both kids, Maddy selling lots of girl scout cookies, and the LAST outside activity before the pandemic shut-down on March 15, 2020.
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| Looking so grown up... Jan 18, 2020 |
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| Tracelink Holiday party January 24, 2020 |
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| Red belt test-passed! Jan 25, 2020 |
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| Learning first aid at the fire house Feb 6, 2020 |
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| Learning about circuits at MIT Feb 7, 2020 |
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| Kung Fu Demonstration- March 8, 2020 |
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| Girl scout cookies waiting (still) to be given out at Mary's work March 12, 2020 |
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| Last day of "normalcy" March 15, 2020 |
