Back to School

[nanila]

The children went back to school today for the first time since March. They were thrilled to go in, and they had a brilliant time.



Today, parents who have been working from home since March be like:

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Comments

[soliano]

They have gotten so big!

[nanila]

They grew a lot over the summer, Keiki especially!

[antisoppist]

My sixth former went today but the secondary school is not until next Tuesday! Mind you, since her birthday the now 13 year-old has been sleeping until the afternoon and then playing Animal Crossing so it is not as if she is any bother while I am working exactly but I feel she needs more of a life.

Also lockdown growth spurt is a thing. I thought it was all the lying in bed but maybe not going by your two.

[nanila]

I hope the secondary schooler is doing well! Humuhumu loves Animal Crossing too.

Lockdown growth spurt was definitely a thing. New shoes, new everything needed. Legs: getting so long.

[askygoneonfire]

Wonderful! Must be such a relief for the children to be back in school and have all that interaction again - I imagine they'll be exhuasted this weekend! Hopefully this is the turning point of your year of stress with house now finished and bit more space for homeworking as well.

Also: what a lovely back to school photo!

[nanila]

They were knackered on Saturday. We went for some morning exercise and then they were just in their onesies all aftenroon, and they still went to bed early.

My home working space is so good. So good that I am not even that bothered that I don't have an office at uni yet. Well, that and the steep rise in covid cases.

[hilarita]

Fingers crossed they stay safe at school and that there's not a sudden plague shutdown...

[nanila]

Indeed. I'm not that worried about the primary age children, honestly, they're all super proud of following the rules. It's the adults...

[annofowlshire]

Welcome back to school, Nanila-kids!

They look great ♥

[nanila]

They are so happy about being back at school. :) They love their new classes.

[cmcmck]

Very smart.

I'm so glad a little sanity has returned!

[nanila]

Me too, thanks! We will be savouring this taste of normality for as long as it lasts.

[silveradept]

They both look eager to go and continue learning.

(There may also be a smol jealousy about you living in a country where it's possible for the kids to go back to school and for it to be anything other than a vector for disease transmission.)

[nanila]

They're loving it, and it's so nice to see how happy they are when we pick them up.

Honestly, the children are really good about the new covid-safe rules. At this point this mode of living and behaving has actually taken up a significant proportion of their lives.

[silveradept]

That's going to make a longitudinal researcher very happy some day. Or very aggravated on all of our behalf about all of the things that we've lived through that were definitely generationally shaping.

[emelbe]

\o/

im so happy for them! and for you!

[nanila]

*\o/* Thank you! They're very happy.

[ljravengirl]

LOL I guess so! Man, I hope it works out well longterm. It's not going so well in this country LOL ahem. I know that's not funny, but I laugh and cry a lot now, whether or not it makes sense.

[nanila]

It makes sense. What else can you do in the face of what amounts to deliberate sabotage of a proper public health response?

[lorigami]

oh that photo!!!!! <3

[nanila]

♥ I treasure it. :)