August

 Something I am sure I will never get tired of is listening to the boys play together. Like when they were building a ramp together for their cars with the box from our new vacuum. Nathan was helping with the tape and handing the scissors to Everett when he needed them. Nathan kept cheering Everett on saying "you did it Everett, you did it!"

We have been taking our days very slowly and simply. With the quarantine and covid going on this year it has taken us four months to adjust to our new slower pace of life and I am finally feeling comfortable with it and almost enjoying the simplicity of life.

We are loving our new scooters and the boys are really good on them. I have been really impressed by how well Nathan got the hang of it. Lately we have been taking them out every morning to the duck pond.

We have also been doing a lot of resting around the house since I've been so pregnant and miserable from the heat.

I love that the boys are always wanting to know where the other one is. When we dropped Everett off for his first day of school Nathan asked me a couple times during the day where his brother was.

I did cry once the week that Everett started kindergarten. But not because I will miss him while he's at school. School is the best thing for Everett and me. I cried because Everett isn't getting a normal school experience. It breaks my heart that the kids can't all sit together on the floor while reading a story and that in the gym and at recess they have to stay on their x and stay six feet apart.

It broke my heart when Everett said all he does at school is learn and no playing. Of course he feels that way when he can't even get close enough to another child to talk to them.

I am grateful that this hopefully won't last forever and that with this being his first experience at school he doesn't know any different. He has such a wonderful teacher and aide which I am grateful for. He has been saying that he enjoys school and especially loves riding the school bus.

The playgrounds have been closed since March and I finally couldn't take it any longer and brought the boys to the playground a few times. I can't stand how much children are suffering this year because of covid with school, socially, and physically not being aloud to be children and play on something so simple as a playground. There is just so much not right about this year.