Quarantine - Day 30

Abi's Doodle

While hope springs eternal, often in Chicago it seems as Winter does too. Today it snowed sideways with the white stuff being whipped by winds for much of the day. Ella dutifully finished her remote learning assignments then proceeded to learn more songs on her ukulele focusing of selections from The Greatest Showman songbook. Abi started dialing in on a rather unique thesis for her Education class looking at the underlying nature of what is an education with a fresh perspective. Laura wrote articles for the next issue of the Illinois Arts Council monthly publication, while I resumed reaching out to CPS in the hope of finding out if classes might possibly resume or not resume as of May 1st. No one knows or know one is saying for sure although that is the official date.

Later Abi created doodles while chatting online with friends. I tucked Ella into bed and she wanted to know when she might be returning to school. She was surprised to learn she had been out of school for an entire month. I told her I had been tracking the numbers and they were looking better, and reminded her that this won’t be forever and that someday we will look back on all this as a long ago memory. A million dreams is all it’s going to take.