We had an unfortunate start to our new school semester this month. Our new school was supposed to be ready for the students when we got back to school after break. The entire last week of last semester was spent moving into the new classrooms. But when the time came, there were some issues that kept the new facility from passing inspection for the kids to be there.
The old classrooms were already in the process of demolition. There was nowhere for the students to go.
BOOOOO.
The first week of classes was outright canceled. The second week was online.
Poppy having a cheerily-named Brain Break, which pretty much means an opportunity for the kids to get up and move. This was some weird video where they were hopping around trying to avoid a Yeti.
The house always looks a little bare after the Christmas decorations are put away, so I put out some Mardi Gras decorations I had.
The latest re-made candles were, coincidentally, purple, which is perfect for Mardi Gras.
I didn't have very many Mardi Gras decorations, so I decided to add something to them. I had seen randomly online somewhere the idea of a Mardi Gras tree, which is just a Christmas tree decorated in the Mardi Gras colors of green, purple, and gold. I liked this idea, so I bought a foot-tall tree, some additional beads, and a dozen small ornaments.
Poppy and I spent some time fluffing up the tree, adjusting the ornament strings to make them smaller (the long strings were ugly and made the tree look sort of hairy), and strategically draping beads.
Poppy asked what we would use for a star. I didn't really have anything, but as she was playing around with the extra gold string we had cut from the ornaments, she discovered that if she pulled along them, they unraveled and got kind of fluffy. She did this to all of the extra strings, and then I took them all and tied them together to make a sparkly, fluffy decoration for the top of the tree.
The finished tree.
I am not a "decor" person, and this is definitely silly, but I love it.
I particularly like how it reflects the candlelight.
I needed just a little bit of tomato for some chicken corn chowder I was making, and I didn't want to open a whole can of them. I remembered a bag of whole tomatoes I had stuck in the freezer just before we left for New Orleans. They were the last of the small garden tomatoes that had been ripening in the kitchen, and I didn't want them to get wrinkly and gross while we were gone. I just rinsed them off and threw them in a bag to put in the freezer.
A taste of summer.
It always seems like it won't be worth the bother of putting such a small quantity in the freezer, but they always get used.
There you have it! My life, snapshotted.