Sequestered 2020: It's not all bad, weekend update

It occurred to me that my poor blog has become a place I simply rant about the stupidity of online school, where I am to deliver a cobbled together curriculum I have not created.  I promise all my posts on the sequestered theme will not be about that!  So - today!  I wanted to come here and point out things that fall into the category of 'it's not all bad'.  I will cultivate my optimistic side (do I have one?  *looks under arm, tries to see back in mirror*)...let's see if that part of me grows! I also miss the photos, so there will be some of that too!

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First of all - we are doing some laughing here.  We like each other =)  It's nice to spend evenings playing ball together in the yard, talking at all the meals and being silly together.  This weekend was amazing - no technology and no screens!  

We will!!  

Yesterday we hiked over 6 miles on the IAT.  I'm out of shape!!  But it felt oh so good to out, doing what we would normally do on a spring weekend!  Not only that, but I think I forgot about all the quarantine stuff for a few hours.  

Tired puppy after a long hike!

The teenager and I hate online school!!

We bought stamps and have already written a few notes to people.  On Saturday we participated in a worldwide/online 'jump around' party...(For those of you that don't know about this tradition... read about it here!  Dave and I were at the game where the tradition started.)  Anyway, today is another day of distance learning from home and I needed to find a way to make the day fun.  It would have been the NCAA men's basketball championship tonight.  According to the BPI, the Badgers would have won!  I saw championship t-shirts for sale and laughed!  This is the time we are living in...things are happening virtually, in theory, and we're making shirts like we always do!  I might buy one, but for today, I am pretending that they would have played Duke (my favorite!) and the Devils would have been underdogs, so I put my #32 jersey on and decided to cheer for the underdogs.  

She's still tired today!

We've been playing a bunch of games in sequestration too.  I've been keeping a list!  We might need to borrow some games from friends to change it up when we get sick of our usual ones.  So far there's been a lot of Catan since we just picked up some different versions.  No complaints!  I set up the board randomly so it's always different.  With the new versions we've been trying out some different board setups for Seafarers.  WHOA - it's been interesting!  We even did the one where the tiles are added after you reach that part of the board, sort of a mystery board.  Good stuff!  See, I can put out a non-ranting post!  Tomorrow is national coffee cake day so I am planning a bakery visit.  You should too.