Another Return to School!

The girls were definitely due for haircuts - they both had slight trims at the end of summer, well over six months ago.

That's better!

We finally returned to church, for the first time since Christmas Eve and the second time since the world shifted last March. L.A. County's Covid numbers are low enough that the sanctuary reopened in March. We chose to sit outside, far enough from other people that we could take off our masks.

It filled my heart to look over and see Violet snuggled into her sister's lap. If you know Cora, you know she's not a snuggly kid, but she didn't push her sister away. Seriously, these two hardly ever fight anymore. I love their relationship!

On Monday, Cora made her long-awaited return to her junior high campus. All year, the district has had a block schedule for junior high and high school, with three longer classes per day. She starts at 8 and ends at 12:15 - and now, on Mondays and Tuesdays, she goes in-person. (Everyone is online only on Wednesdays, and the second half of the alphabet is allowed to attend Thursdays/Fridays.)

It's not anything like last year - no brunch or lunch to hang out, her good friends aren't there the days she's there, and you're supposed to keep your distance and wear a mask all day. But, considering we feared she wouldn't make it back to her junior high at all before promoting in June, we'll take it!

She said it's definitely a better learning environment to be in the classroom, with fewer distractions. But she does miss her friends. I'm hoping hard that the district will relax a bit, and allow the students who want to attend in person, to attend every day instead of two days per week. 

We received the wonderful news that Violet's district will return to a normal, full-day schedule on April 19!

Violet has been creative again, lately. Here is her painting of a dragon's eye, surrounded by scales, and a seawing dragon, in the ocean.