Random Stuff

• School! Big kids found out their "teams" and teachers. They are getting excited about going back to school (that would be after Labor Day)! They are figuring out which of their friends are in which classes with them...
• A few new teachers - including a new orchestra teacher (for E) and a new math teacher (for H). Hopefully they are good and tough...
• H is on the same team as E was last year.
• All kids took covid test today - all tested negative. H is convinced she still has covid and is feeling pretty anxious. She is loads better than she was a couple of days ago (back when she had super congestion and runny nose) but is complaining about sinus pain and is asking to go see the doctor. I am hoping it will all clear up... 
• I looked up Maine on Atlas Obscura (because we are going to Maine in a week)... and then looked up our own state... This reminded me that I really wanted to do day-trips to local destinations this summer and we never got around to it.
• H and C started taking piano lessons with my mom. Because their regular piano teacher was selling her house and cancelling lots of lessons and potentially moving far away... and then she took the house off the market and is now not moving anywhere... but I think we'll just stay with my mom for the time being. But we do need to make a nice card for the old piano teacher and give her some nice stuff... My kids really liked her and made good progress.
• Hebrew school may or may not happen this year... because they are having a hard time finding teachers...
• Work has been frustrating and stressful. Not the work itself - the set up... the lack of support... and sense that everyone is overworked and disgruntled.