Montgomery County Public Schools opted for at home learning through January 29th due to the COVID-19 pandemic still raging throughout the country. That’s five months at home, and that was too long of a time to sit at the dining room table again. So we shifted some furniture around and created a tiny version of John T. Baker Middle School in our living room. Yes, for those of your counting he is now in 6th grade. Can you believe it?!

In early August, Greydon and I chased down a desk from IKEA not available at the College Park store but in stock in the Baltimore store because they had a few left. On Saturday we bought him a gaming chair from Costco. We hung a floating shelf so he could make his “classroom” cozy. We picked up a monitor and a cheap-o rug, too. We got him a couple Baker Bulldogs t-shirts and a new hoodie. We even got him a little bulldog stuffed animal mascot to watch over him. The cats are fascinated with the new “classroom” and Greydon has set up a spot for them to hang out next to him on the ottoman.

As of this morning, he’s really enjoying himself. He really likes his teachers and is having fun seeing some old friends on Zoom from Rockwell E.S., the school he attended prior to our move in 2017. He even saw his second grade crush in his math class. :-)

It’s a new schedule and should be very interesting to see how this fall will pan out. But Fletcher and I are both at home and are ready to jump in to make this as fun as we can. Day 1 - SO FAR SO GOOD!