and so it begins

 

Well this has been a weird week. We got the call to shelter in place and the school I work at has closed the classrooms. We're all scrambling to figure out what the next step is and I'm super happy we made it to the library before the call came it. I had a written list and ran around looking for anything I could find at our branch. Seven books in twenty minutes ain't half bad. Only two of the titles were not on my list. Score! 

I placed an order for some puzzles and until then we have this classic farm house puzzle. I remember when I was a kid, we had two or three jigsaw puzzles on the top shelf of the closet in our den that we never used a gathering room. It had a desk in it and my mom's old underwood typewriter, and there was a sewing table and two enormous cabinets full of fabric. Later it became a storage unit for anything and everything, but those first few years we lived there, I remember sneaking into the closet to see what I could discover and there were these two puzzles. One was a farm scene, the other Big Ben, of course. We never put the puzzles together, and I think I just liked to put m hands in the pieces to feel how they felt. 

Stay safe everyone! Wash your hands! What song do you sing for your twenty second wash? At school I taught the children to wash together while we sing the alphabet song all the way to the end. Suds fly everywhere! It's fun! So now, of course, I still sing the abc song in my head. I'm gonna need to find a new one.