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Sep. 16th, 2020 09:26 pm-My kids are now both in in-person school. E's school is tiny (her class is 4 people), and having seen the likely state of school back in the summer, I pulled A out of the school he was going to attend (the large local public school) and enrolled him in E's school. (His class is 9 kids, up from 4 last year, but I suspect other parents were making the same calculation I was.) Our county has too many cases for schools to open in general, but E's school, since it is so tiny, applied for and got a waiver and just opened up. All the families seem pretty committed to being a pod, so I think this will work out.
All the other kids were all visibly and extremely relieved to be back with other kids (A was happy, though this was tempered, I think, by a bit of trepidation, as he'd never met these kids before, as the usual pre-school meeting events were of course canceled), but although E seemed happy about it, she wasn't particularly overjoyed or anything. But she's been much more even-tempered and less irritable today than she's been in weeks. A. seems to have enjoyed himself as well (though we were pretty much expecting him to, he actually likes people).
-We don't usually lock the door until we go to bed, and the air JUST got OK enough today that we could open the windows without worrying about smoke inhalation, so we did that; so the front window was open. I was writing email on my laptop on the couch next to the window and heard someone through the open window walking on the sidewalk, singing softly and tunelessly. The singing got closer, like the person wasn't on the sidewalk anymore, and then stopped. I looked out (thinking it might be someone from church bringing a treat or a card for the kids or something, which does happen every once in a while) and didn't see anything (it was dark, but I still probably would have seen a friend walking up to the door), and went back to my email. And then the door opened and THIS GUY WALKED IN AND STARTED MUMBLING AT ME. I yelled for D (who was thankfully home and not working late as he often does, though in the other room), and he came and ordered the guy out, who meekly mumbled that he must have made a mistake. He still just stood there, so D actually physically pushed him out the door, and he went.
On one hand: he only stepped a couple of steps into the house, he didn't come at me or anything, he seemed to be trying to talk to me (though I couldn't understand him). Maybe he was drunk? I am terrible at figuring out when people are drunk. It's possible he had the wrong house. On the other hand, he didn't come up to the door when I looked out, as I would have thought someone would have done who had legit mistaken me/the house. He must have been able to see me fairly clearly when I looked outside, and he would have seen I was alone in the room (where D was in the other room, he would not have been visible to someone looking in).
I'm not a big person. He was a lot bigger than me (about D's size, bigger in girth but D was taller). If I'd been alone I would not have been able to get him out by myself. (I also probably would have not thought of pushing him out the door -- I am completely useless in situations like this.)
...I guess now I have to lock the door in the evening.
All the other kids were all visibly and extremely relieved to be back with other kids (A was happy, though this was tempered, I think, by a bit of trepidation, as he'd never met these kids before, as the usual pre-school meeting events were of course canceled), but although E seemed happy about it, she wasn't particularly overjoyed or anything. But she's been much more even-tempered and less irritable today than she's been in weeks. A. seems to have enjoyed himself as well (though we were pretty much expecting him to, he actually likes people).
-We don't usually lock the door until we go to bed, and the air JUST got OK enough today that we could open the windows without worrying about smoke inhalation, so we did that; so the front window was open. I was writing email on my laptop on the couch next to the window and heard someone through the open window walking on the sidewalk, singing softly and tunelessly. The singing got closer, like the person wasn't on the sidewalk anymore, and then stopped. I looked out (thinking it might be someone from church bringing a treat or a card for the kids or something, which does happen every once in a while) and didn't see anything (it was dark, but I still probably would have seen a friend walking up to the door), and went back to my email. And then the door opened and THIS GUY WALKED IN AND STARTED MUMBLING AT ME. I yelled for D (who was thankfully home and not working late as he often does, though in the other room), and he came and ordered the guy out, who meekly mumbled that he must have made a mistake. He still just stood there, so D actually physically pushed him out the door, and he went.
On one hand: he only stepped a couple of steps into the house, he didn't come at me or anything, he seemed to be trying to talk to me (though I couldn't understand him). Maybe he was drunk? I am terrible at figuring out when people are drunk. It's possible he had the wrong house. On the other hand, he didn't come up to the door when I looked out, as I would have thought someone would have done who had legit mistaken me/the house. He must have been able to see me fairly clearly when I looked outside, and he would have seen I was alone in the room (where D was in the other room, he would not have been visible to someone looking in).
I'm not a big person. He was a lot bigger than me (about D's size, bigger in girth but D was taller). If I'd been alone I would not have been able to get him out by myself. (I also probably would have not thought of pushing him out the door -- I am completely useless in situations like this.)
...I guess now I have to lock the door in the evening.
