What a year, 2020….

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What a year. I admit, it’s been hard to balance it all… a pandemic, homeschool, full -time remote work, living upstate for March-August, moving back to Brooklyn, repeat working from home and hybrid/homeschool… all of it….AND I wouldn’t change how our family has done it or handled it together for the world. Grateful beyond belief for Kyle Page and all that he’s done for us both at Pond Place and back in Brooklyn.

Here’s a one year catch-up from where I left off in December of last year (Otis’s birthday, 12/5/2019)

Christmas 2019

January 2020

February 2020

  • Pre-Pandemic Shopping

March 2020

  • Theo turns 4!
  • The Taylors stay with us during the first two weeks sheltering in place.

April 2020

  • Easter!
  • Homeschool (1st Grade)
  • Gravel delivery
  • Stacking wood with Daddy
  • This noodle.

May 2020

  • Yoda!
  • Luke Skywalker
  • Blue Morpho Butterfly
  • Teacher Appreciation
  • Otis learns to ride a bike! (In one day!!)

June 2020

  • Garden!
  • Strawberries with Gaga
  • Mask Ninjas
  • Lunch with Mazz
  • Planets

July 2020

  • Kyle builds the kids a BEACH!
  • Summer fun with the Taylors
  • T-bird the biker
  • Side Eye always
  • Rocker

August 2020

  • Bernice! She spent July and August helping us with the boys!
  • Back to Brooklyn!

September 2020

  • First day of Pre-K and 2nd Grade!
  • Park days (Wednesdays) with classmates (Camp Joachim)
  • Beach day?!
  • Otis & Jo

October 2020

  • VOTED
  • Our Kate
  • Otis & Doris
  • Halloween with Solomon and Sophie! (Otis was Minecraft Steve and Theo and Enderdragon – also Minecraft)
  • Buddies

November 2020

  • BIDEN/HARRIS WIN!!!!
  • First tooth LOST! (At Thanksgiving dinner no less!)
  • My boys!

So much to catch up on…

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Family and Friends- so much to catch up on.  We are safe and well.

My last post was from Otis’s 6th birthday in early December. Wow was that a lifetime ago!

Then came the whirlwind of the holidays, early winter, and then of course Theo’s 4th birthday on March 11th and the fast and uncertain days that followed when Covid hit New York and the country.

We headed upstate on Monday, March 16th (when public schools closed – at that time till mid-April and remote work was ‘ok’) and have been homeschooling and juggling full time remote work ever since.  We are as grateful as ever that we can do this all safely here at the Pond House.   It’s been fun to see the seasons change and while we miss Brooklyn dearly as well we are so glad for this time together in the country.

I’ll try to back track to post a catch up photos- so many wonderful memories.

Also focusing on continuously teaching kindness in respect to these boys.  That’s what this world needs most.

These boys are the brightest spots.

Love to all,

Hardy, Kyle, Otis, Theo, and the Mazzdog