Sarek celebrates his last day of middle school and the end of almost 15 months of distance learning with pie for breakfast. He is starting to resist my requests for pictures of milestone moments. You can see the clash between his developmentally appropriate ambivalence and his nature to be a good sport in the pictures.
Hi, it's Nola! Even though it was during a pandemic, Halloween was still pretty fun. Sarek and I both went to small-group masked hangouts. Sarek went to Pacifica, as usual, to see his all-time bestie, Dexter. I went to my friend, Calla's, backyard with my friends, Zoe and Margaret, to have a masked/candy hangout. We played on the aerial silk and played with the dogs. Sarek was a unicorn (he just got a unicorn onesie from Target) and I was a purple (of course) M&M. I did my hair and makeup by myself, which I was very proud of. But it still took a while. (In the picture where I'm sitting in the silk, you can see I'm eating M&M's. Margaret said it was cannibalism. It was.)
We're in a pandemic, and school started online for Sarek. Nola starts in two weeks. I forgot to take the perfunctory first day of school shot given all that is going on. Bet you never saw a third day of eight grade shot, eh? Thought so! Does it even matter these days?
Sarek turned 13 during COVID. Here he is with his quaranteen cake, which he apparently managed to eat without arms. We celebrated in the garage and handed out cake in a socially distanced fashion.
Indian summer in San Francisco inspired us to bring dinner to the beach around sunset. We may complain about the pricetag, but we are so lucky to live here.
Nola, 2 1/2. Sarek, 4. Brett, 43. Deena 39 3/4.
