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Pandemic Homeschool Milestones

May always sneaks up on me. Planning ahead, it looks like a routine month, but as it gets closer my calendar fills up with late school year special events. This year, for obvious reasons, that hasn’t really happened. The trade off for a peaceful May is the loss of some milestones that are pretty meaningful for my kids. Lockdown already has enough in common with Groundhog Day without ignoring milestones, so even if substitutions are just vestigial acknowledgements of old systems, we can’t afford to ignore them. We’re passing milestones during the pandemic, they just aren’t marking the same road we thought we would be on.

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Garbage Pets

Anyone who has talked to me in the last four years knows that I think getting rabbits as pets was a Big Mistake. Rabbits are a lot of work, and they don’t really act like pets. They run away from you instead of to you and don’t like to be picked up, even though they need daily brushing. They’re kind of garbage pets.

I didn’t stage this photo, though. Rabbits would never stay put if you place them for a photo. He just decided to jump in this waste basket all by himself. So I guess that’s kind of cute, at least?

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A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear

I’m terrible about starting book clubs and reading challenges and never finishing them. But the idea of a “reading around the world” challenge has been going around the internet for a few years and it really appeals to me. So the last time someone’s Reading Around the World book list popped up in my feed, I looked at it a little closer.

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Pandemic Homeschooling Dal Segno

I complain about not being able to find the gifs I want often enough that I should probably learn how to make them. Lately, as I try to navigate pandemic homeschooling, I’ve wished for a gif of Rosencrantz telling Guildenstern (or was it the other way around?), “We’ve been here before.” The sense of circling back on topics already covered has been growing on me the longer pandemic homeschooling drags on. Lately, it seems that we’ve been homeschooling dal segno.

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Music I Like – Icelandic Singles

I usually don’t like listening to singles. I prefer to put on an album and let it run. But mostly thanks to the Reykjavik Grapevine I’ve stumbled across a few emerging Icelandic artists who only seem to have a song or two posted online. And I’ve liked what I heard enough to make a note of it.

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