We had some cake ingredients leftover from Clara's birthday party, so Brynn decided to make and decorate a Harry Potter cake this past week. It was delicious!
It was announced this past week that Fargo Public Schools would start this school year at level 3. From what I've gathered in reading through the 84-page document outlining the plan for each of the levels, that it the hybrid approach.
So, Clara will attend in-person classes Mondays and Tuesdays and every other Wednesday. Thursdays and Fridays she will be distance learning. Brynn will have a similar schedule, I believe, but only through September. After September, secondary students will be completely virtual.
We're anxiously awaiting more details as we anticipate receiving additional information from each of the girls' schools. I know Clara won't know any differently than how this year will start out for her as a kindergartner, but it still certainly feels strange. They will try to distance as much as they can at school, keeping pods or classes together as much as they can. But, they are supposed to wear masks the whole time.
We can only hope that it goes as well as it can. Regardless, Clara is very excited to start school! She asked Brynn if they can eat lunch together because she thought they were going to the same school. 😠I actually was surprised that she thought that as I had never heard her mention it before and she has been to the playground at her school and been with me when we've dropped Brynn off at the middle school several times. It's hard to keep everything straight though!
Several people have asked me Brynn's reaction to this school year's plans and I don't know that she's really formed much of an opinion yet as everything has been so fluid and so much information (that we still don't know yet).
Nevertheless, we still needed school supplies! So, we all loaded up and hit up Walmart this past week to check everything off the girls' lists. I think we actually did find almost everything which usually never happens!
The girls decided to have a sleepover in the spare bedroom the other night. That bed has a duvet on it that buttons at the bottom. If they unbutton it, and blow a fan into it at the end of the bed, it creates this whole balloon effect.
Brynn was showing Dad her earrings while he was setting up her new speaker for her iPod. :-)
I almost stepped on this little crayfish while on a walk on Saturday morning. I wondered how much rain we must have gotten for this guy to be hanging around!
On Saturday we brought the girls to Dead Lake to stay and had lunch there with my parents. Clara was flexing her muscles and challenging all of us to arm wrestling.
We came back from the lake and left the girls to stay for a few days. It was a gorgeous evening out last night for some patio dining at Granite City.
Our hydrangea tree is looking so pretty. I guess the butterflies think so too. I can only see two when I look at this pic now, but when I took it, I think there were three on it.
Of course the girls are having a good time at the lake. Thanks, Grandpa and Grandma!
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