Hey,

Quarantiners. Today is Wednesday, May 13th. I didn't talk about it last week, but the Governor of New Jersey

officially announced that we will not be going back to school

this year.

So that happened.

It wasn't a big surprise, I guess, but still. They asked us to send in pictures from homeschool for the yearbook, which I guess

makes sense. I mean, this is definitely what I'm going to remember from sixth grade,

what we're all going to remember. I feel like someday our kids are going to learn about the

pandemic of 20 in history class. They'll ask us what it was like to live through it. I don't know what

my answer will be, but I hope it's something like it was sad and stressful at times,

but we got closer with our families and took care of our neighbors, and it wasn't all bad.

Even the quarantine birthdays.

Speaking of which, which,

Happy a birthday to Lily Madsen

from Hurricane Utah, who is nine today,

and Ivy Moore from Waco, Texas who's turning 13.

Aveya House who's also turning 9 today.

Hi to her sister Talia!

Happy belated to Anna Tomo's friend Ella,

Ella, Elie Bertadette, Ers' Cannica Sharma, and Gwendeline Ellis's cat cricket.

Do I have cat and dog listeners now, too?

And a different kind of shout out to our pal in the hazmat suit, Gabriel Augustine.

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