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2020 Recap

 2020 - what can anyone really say about it?  We sent S back to Harding for her second semester.  She and a friend came home at Spring Break and then never left!  The covid pandemic and quarantine changed a few things, like cancelling co-op and changing music lessons to zoom.  Other things didn't change - dad still went to work and we still had school lessons.  

Our year started with a strawberry birthday cake for H. and a little girl enjoying riding her rocking horse while playing her piano.

 


We also got a dusting of snow.......................... enough to build a small snowman.

 

 

We also created an indoor fairy garden.....

 

 

S came home and helped R play.

 

Because co-op was cancelled, our chemistry teacher mailed some experiments.....

 

 

 


Having fun in our front and back yard 

 

 

We took our guest to visit Grandma and showed her how to fish.

 

 

For a 2nd birthday, Z decided to build a sandbox for R

 

The train coming out the new tunnel


A pretty princess playing in her new dress by her sister A

 

We took S back for in person college classes.  We stayed for the weekend and visited a local hobby store that has cabooses on tracks out front.



Welcome to Fall 2020!!



The little train running the track


And a new big girl bed for a big 2 year old.  Yes, there are actually 2 mattresses.  They are from her crib and one that we used when we had a toddler bed.  The toddler bed went to a new home several years ago with a different toddler mattress.  So, we used the bed frame from a twin bed, which is very close to the ground, put some soft stuff on the bunkie board, and then put the other mattress on the floor.  Yes, we roll when we sleep and have been found on the lower mattress a few times.



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