Napoleon Dynamite Zoom

Here's a copy of the latest school photo - we got it in an email this morning, along with some possible backgrounds to go with it.  It was okay - the three of us liked the one we did last fall much better.  So much so that we didn't even order this one.  Daddy snapped a screen capture of it, and that's good enough for now for posterity.  

School keeps moving forward, with assignments and tests and the usual things going on.  It's all just done from home, and how remarkable that our county was so prepared in this regard.  Other counties were not so blessed, and in fact we've heard some elementary schools are doing the whole year over again.  I personally find that hard to believe, and can't even imagine that generation of students actually graduating one year later.  You're saying that there'll be a year in your school system where no one graduates at all?  Interesting, especially since the kids were in their classrooms from August until mid-March.  

Anyway, we've been working along today.  Daddy was writing today as well, and also getting involved with some meetings online.  Yep, that means virtual backgrounds and costumes again!  For meeting number one, Daddy was a Pizza Planet employee.

But our second meeting was probably one of our favorites.  We were both seated on the couch with Napoleon Dynamite here.  This shot is towards the end of the meeting, after about twenty people dropped out at the end there.

Mommy's hair looks great, doesn't it?  She arranged it to look like Deb, and of course she has the "Vote for Pedro" shirt on as well!  Madison snapped a picture of us just afterwards.

We had a few meetings today, and those tend to take up some time.  But we got a lot discussed, and in fact we'll be doing a few new things this week.

Afterwards, Daddy and Madison went out to the front yard, and this time we did this ring toss game that we got for Christmas.  We had a pole in the ground, a short one, and the two of us took turns trying to get ringers, or at least get close enough to get a point.  If you were three feet from the post, you actually lost a point.  That made the game last a little longer.  The first first game went to Daddy, but when Madison discovered a different way of tossing the rings, more of a frisbee toss, then she started to do well, coming back to win the second game.

Madison did her piano, and she practiced her form as well, and as a reward, there was chocolate chip mint ice cream for everyone.  This helps to offset a gloomy sort of week, where conflicting reports of success vs. ominous forecasts have battled to dominate everyone's collective mindset.  Will we have faith or fear?  Is it okay to be optimistic and full of cheer despite the circumstances?

Tonight we were watching our regulars streaming programming, including those old "Clone Wars" episodes and a few "Kickin' It" episodes we haven't seen yet.  We read from Narnia, and we said our prayers.  It's a dark time in our nation's history, that much is certain.  But we can still be the light of the world.