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Summer - Week 10

This week brought some answers for school - or at least 1 big answer.  The first day of school was moved to Sept. 2 - a 2 week delay!  This extra time will hopefully allow for more planning to be done collaboratively among staff. It will also allow for extra time for supplies to arrive and to prepare the space for the students coming back. On Thursday, our task force met to begin the work of reopening plans.  There were at least 20-30 staff members at the meeting (either in the building or online), and we looked through the Navigating Change 2020 document from KSDE.  After that initial meeting, I began to wonder if 2 extra weeks will be enough to get everything done!

In other news, the girls and I went to visit the animals and Addi at Tanganyika on Tuesday.  She was stationed at the giraffes and the kangaroos that day.  It was fun to see her at work, and the girls had their first experience feeding the lemurs!  Bonus - we actually saw the otters swimming around!










What kind of eggplant did I plant???

Caiden and Chelan finished the rather large job hanging the porch swing. We are enjoying it, and Chelan can check off yet another project finished!

Some of us tried a new thing on Saturday night!  Delaney had a date with us at the Starlite Drive-in Theater!  Kung Fu Panda was showing, which the other 2 had seen several times.  For several summers I have wanted to go, and now I can check something off of my bucket list!  Delaney and I, especially, had a great time, I think.


And maybe in an effort to do something else a little different, Chelan rigged up his rope-making apparatus again.  It took some doing, but 2 ropes were made!


This would have been the weekend for our trip to S. Dakota.  I'm not going to lie - this has been a tough realization for me.  I am struggling with the sameness of each day and the uncertainties of the upcoming school year.  Time away would have been a blessing, but it just wasn't meant to be.  I will keep trying to find joy in the little things.  Perhaps that's a lesson I am supposed to be learning. . .

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