by Schneider | Apr 24, 2021 | Day in the Life
Friday brought the end of a week that had us all feeling pretty exhausted. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’m not even certain why…it wasn’t any more busy or nuts that most weeks, but for some reason we’ve all been feeling pretty...
by Schneider | Apr 22, 2021 | Day in the Life
On Wednesday morning, I was zeroed in on work when Amelia came into my office with an assignment. They had been told to write a story, and then read it aloud to someone else in the house. So Amelia sat down and gave me a personal reading of her story. She did a...
by Schneider | Apr 21, 2021 | Day in the Life, Parenting
I remember way back on Day 76 of this blog, being incredibly rattled by the death of George Floyd and writing a post about it. That was obviously a galvanizing event in a country already struggling through a scary pandemic. It set into motion a summer of protests and...
by Schneider | Apr 20, 2021 | Day in the Life
Monday was a big day in the Schneider Haus. It was Asta’s second birthday! Of course, that didn’t make it any easier for the kids to get up and get into their weeks. There was the usual Monday morning grumbling, but things loosened up as the day went...
by Schneider | Apr 19, 2021 | Day in the Life
Sunday wasn’t much more energetic than Saturday was. It was a low key morning, and then I dropped the kids off at their grandparents to spend some time with them.That afternoon, Erin went off to get her first COVID vaccination, and that went nice and smoothly...
by Schneider | Apr 18, 2021 | Day in the Life
It was a pretty low-energy Saturday for the grown-ups in the house. As noted yesterday, I couldn’t say for sure whether my overwhelming feeling of exhaustion was from my first shot of the Pfizer vaccine on Friday, or just from being alive and being a parent. I...