December

December started out business as usual with piano practice and school work, and Nate's book hit the shelves at Desert Book, which was exciting. And we celebrated my mom's birthday at a party Steve planned with my sisters and Ryan and Heather. And then Nate bought a few additions for our yard and the field for Christmas. After he added the llama to the field, a few other things mysterious appeared in the field courtesy of our neighbors. It was pretty funny. And then everything hit the fan. Laura got covid, and then Josh, and then me. We spent the last two weeks of the school term doing online school--the worst two weeks of the year (other than the last couple weeks in May). Megan missed her Christmas celebrations at school, and Josh, Laura and Lia had to take finals and finish projects at home. Nate was out of town that first week, which was good for him, but it was a hard week. Someone melted down everyday about something. Laura was sick for a few days and Josh was sick for a week. I felt pretty good for the first few days, other than a bad headache, so I tried to think of some things that Megan could do while we were stuck at home. All the other kids had lots of homework, but Megan didn't. So we made a gingerbread house and sugar cookies and played with Ollie.