Day 5 corona staycation

On Sunday, all schools in the state of Iowa closed for a month.  My kids like going to school.  Not necessarily for the homework, but for their friends.  I sent them from homeschool to public school eight years ago.  So they've had eight years of social conditioning.  This is only day 5 of social distancing.  I've been practicing mostly social distancing for a couple of years.  Thankfully I have one friend to talk by text to everyday. 

NO we are not homeschooling.  If the public system had treated my student with a little more respect and gave a hoot about her well being, maybe I'd be more likely to do something.  But are we doing school at home, no.  The school is shut down.  Not in session.  The middle school kids turned in their books.  Not sure if the highschool turned in books or not.  Doesn't matter though.  School is not in session in the state of Iowa.  So they can not be required to complete anything teachers send out.  I'm certainly not going to add more stress to myself or them for a system that doesn't recognize schooling at home.  And I am not their teacher.  They'll do some sure.  They'll keep the journal that one or two teachers that kindly ask them to.  The state does not recognize homeschool kids as human beings.  So asking them to do school work at home isn't something I'm going to hold them to.   I'm still working with my preschooler a little but in no way a full homeschool situation.  My special needs daughter is watching fun videos from her teacher and online.  She's not handling this well.  There's just no way to help her understand why she can't go to school today.  Or tomorrow.  Or the next day for 4 weeks. 

Last night I acidentally made my own ramen noodles.  No one would tell me what they wanted for dinner.  So I just threw some noodles in the stock pot with chicken broth.  Ooops.  Oh well.  They all ate it. 

It rained and froze and snowed overnight. Hopefully the kids will go outside after lunch.   Except today we all had lunch at 10a.m.  Does this mean I have to make three meals today?  Nope!  Dinner will just be at 5:30.