2020 is going to be a crazy school year trying to navigate through COVID, but the kids are excited to be back in school.
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Taylor wanted to buy some make-up for 6th grade
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Addie wanted her hair curled for the first day of school
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Crazy to be picking up the kids from school and see them in masks
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The first day of school was really rough! Once the girls were in the car, the tears started coming. Because of COVID, the girls are only with their classroom throughout the entire school day. Unfortunately, the girls did not get any of their friends in their classrooms.
They break the playground into 5 different groups, so there is no interaction between the classes. Addie said that she was on the playground looking at the other area and watching her 3 best friends play together. She said she hung out with her teacher during recess and just had tears in her eyes because she was so jealous and sad watching her friends play together.
Camryn was sad and felt very alone during the day. She was sad but didn't cry too much.
Taylor was probably the worst of all. She cried in the car on the way home, and she just sat at dinner with tears streaming down her face. She said that she wanted to do virtual school since she didn't have any friends.
It was all pretty sad for Jason and I honestly. But we started doing a quick bible study as a family at the end of dinner, and that evening we were studying about Abraham. The prayer for that evening was "Lord, help me to have faith even when I don't understand what your plan is and what you are doing." It was the perfect timing, so we really talked about having faith even through tough times. We encouraged the girls to just make one friend the next day. It didn't need to be a "best friend" but just someone to talk to and have as a friend.
Luckily, the next day was 100% better. Each of the girls made a friend at school and were much happier. We celebrated with getting a donut at Rick's Bakery after school!
