Unfortunately, our Google Meets have been cancelled until further notice, due to security reasons. We will NOT be meeting this Tuesday. I will let you know if and when we can resume. Please continue to send work for me to see. I will be checking in with phone calls to see how you are all doing.

To my families and friends who are celebrating Ramadan, I wish you a peaceful and blessed month. May you continue to be blessed with good health for you and your loved ones.

You may have fallen into a new schedule of school assignments, managing household needs, taking breaks, cooking more meals than you ever imagined, laundry, and hopefully, taking time for yourselves. You also are probably discovering things that you ABSOLUTELY need for your family and many things that you really don’t need. I know that my husband have realized this. I also have created a huge pile of items to be donated to charity when donations are accepted. Outside our church is a “Little Library” where books can be donated and shared with others. We now have temporarily removed the books and filled the library with food items. Last evening we donated many items, even in the “Overflow” box. If you are in need of anything, please swing on by our church and help yourself. If you need something else that is not there, please let me know and I will gladly share what I have. I am serious…just let me know.

The church’s address is 22124 Garrison, behind Buddy’s.

While it is very difficult not to be with my kids, missing time on Google Meets is adding more heartache. I will be glad when we can be together again.

I will end with this from another teacher friend of mine…

“Everyone is applauding everyone but our children! These little heroes have stayed indoors more than they’ve ever know in their lives. Their whole worlds have literally been turned upside down. All these rules they’ve never known. A life they couldn’t have imagined. All the things they love, like sports, being with friends, going to school, or just being with kids have all been taken away from them. Adults talking about others becoming unwell, news reporting death after death. Our poor children’s minds must be racing. Every day they get up and carry on, despite all that’s going on. So here’s to our little heroes-today, tomorrow, forever.

Love you and miss you all,

Mrs. Smith