Quarantine Day 61: Meets, Zooms & Meetings

Tuesday, a teaching day for mom, a work day for dad, a zoom day for Juliet and a meet day for Naomi. This morning I was up and at 'em rather early. My alarm is set for 7:30 but I was up at 7 - I had to pee! (TMI?) I showered and got dressed and headed downstairs and found Juliet down there looking at old photos on the iPad. Her morning routine. I got Pip and walked him and as I was coming back towards the house when the kid came running down the street towards me yelling something. It turns out Naomi had a tick behind her ear. So we went inside and she ended up taking it out herself. She got the whole tick and later in the day it looked fine.

After we got settled and had breakfast, everyone dispersed into their separate corner of the house. Naomi to the family room to do her google meet, Juliet to her room to do her zoom, JP to the office and I sat in the living room to teach my first class. It seems that whenever I'm teaching the dog feels the need to bark his head off. And right on schedule, as soon as we all were in our meetings & classes Pip decided to bark his head off.

After our morning classes I decided to run to Needham to pick up my computer which is now ready for me to use at home. So Juliet and I took a drive. Once we got to Needham, she put on her mask and didn't touch anything when she came inside the school with me. We were in and out. She liked driving in the car the other day because we listened to a bunch of story podcasts from Circle Round. We should put them on more often I guess! I thought we timed it pretty good because I had a class that started at 1:40 and well we got home at 1:45. I ran in the house and logged in to the class and they were all making fun of me for being late to my own class. All good natured of course. Juliet was interested in talking to me during the afternoon classes, or playing legos with Naomi right next to me, rather loudly. Again, always when I have a class, does it seem that the kids are extra loud or needy!

Once my classes were over the kids wanted nothing to do with me.

JP finished work early so we went for a walk and got out in the sun. It was actually a bit chilly in the sun! Juliet was riding her bike with the neighborhood kids, first the two wheeler, then the bike with training wheels. Naomi then had her Spanish tutor where she played guess who with her teacher. While every kid was occupied I went and finished oiling the Adirondack chairs. I think this is the final coat and after that they're good to go!!! They are looking pretty good if I do say so myself! Next up the deck table and chairs!

Juliet had a virtual play date this afternoon with her friend from Woodside. She was so excited about this and ever since she woke up every 10 or 20 minutes she asked me if it was time for her play date. It was not time for her playdate. And she was over the moon. I think she really needed this. Her virtual play date over google meet was 2 hours! Both kids had so much fun. It was so cute how much they missed each other.

I did a bit of work on the Needham Senior awards program while JP got dinner ready and the kids were again occupied.

After dinner we played games. JP and Juliet played guess who and then battleship while Naomi and I played Dragonwood. The evening ended in tears for Naomi because she didn't win and I got the dragons. So we headed up to bed.

JP spent the rest of the evening watching Phish's Dinner and a Movie show while I worked some more on the senior award designs, specifically the  certificates. This took 2 hours to do. And honestly it was great to be able to do it uninterrupted. I typically do the graduation work during a class a few minutes here and there or in between classes a few at a time. Being able to sit down and get it out in one pass was nice. And it makes it easier for me to track the amount of time that I spend on design work too! I'm keeping track of it to charge design time as they are going to give out the programs this year digitally.

We headed up to bed after the Phish show and then I had to write this blog post, so we turned on movie 3 of our Harry Potter Marathon - Prisoner of Azkaban!  Oh and by the way chapter 3 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is out if you want to listen/watch it. Eddy Redmayne (Newt Scamander) reads it!