september 9th - first day (542)

All smiles for the big first day of school. Alex is pumped he has a male teacher, Mr. Rodos. Gemma is on a rinse and repeat with a second consecutive year with Ms. Hale and Señora Rodriguez….no she didn’t stay back:).  The weather was really crappy so we didn’t get to do our family walk for first day drop-off. 

Even bigger smiles for Mommy and Daddy as we are officially counting this as a return to normal life (with masks).  Today marks the 542nd day after our lives were initially impacted by the pandemic and the first day they were sent home for “remote” learning. Never thought we could hate a word more than we have come to hate the word “remote.”  Thankfully, Mommy’s influence has changed everyone in our house over to calling it “the tv box”…scrubbing the word from our vocabulary. Crossing our fingers that this really is the end.