We are officially a home school family. It wasn't what we planned, but I don't think anyone planned for 2020, so here we are. I decided to start on September 1st. Ross was already back at work, we needed some structure in our day, and it also meant our first week would only be four days long. That seemed like a bonus. We spent the week prior talking to Sawyer about school and trying to pump him up about getting started. I wanted to make it feel like a first day of school. We bought supplies, talked about things we'd be doing, and I let him choose the dinner menu for his first day. He picked cougar. I SAID cougar. One of Ross' friends gifted him a cougar roast and some stew meat. We're so lucky. And I got to figure out how to cook it. I'm so lucky. I cooked it to its second death. Cougar leather. We called it brain food, and the boys demolished it. I hope it works. Day 1: I got up at 5:45 so I could get breakfast started, lunches made and