November brought a huge pause to out lives. Covid entered our lives closer to home than any of us would have ever wanted. Basically, everyone in the family contract some form of the virus. Some of us lost our sense of smell, some of us were down with cold symptoms, some with flu symptoms and others with just a slight fever. Unfortunately, covid took two of our family members to the hospital and one didn’t come home. The kids lost the best grandma ever on 11/23/20. Grandma Stroh lost her fight to Covid and it shook our family and it was hard to focus on anything since that point. We were all shocked that the rock of our family was taken out by a virus that had a 99.9% survival rate. She was sick, went to the hospital and was gone in 3 weeks. Needless to say, it’s hard to share any other news at this point as we are all just trying to get through the holidays and make it to 2021 at this point. There is a vaccine starting distribution so there is an end to this in site, but our lives will never be the same.
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Saturday, October 31, 2020
September/October 2020
September came in and school continued, and we were super
happy about that. Crew is adjusting to
Kindergarten like a champ. He loves
coming home and showing us what he learned that day and telling us all about
his adventures. Wednesdays are our
remote learning days and the school has a program that Crew can participate by
logging into the IPAD. He does pretty
well. He has about 2 hours of work each
Wednesday and can do a lot of it on his own as the directions seem to stay
pretty much the same but the numbers and letters change each week. We look forward to the day when we are in
school full time and not wearing masks.
Just wish we were able to move forward with all the activities we take
part in during the fall like football games and homecoming events, etc. I just hope and pray that our lives will get
back to normal soon as I feel we are all suffering in small ways.
We felt the fall come in but took one more family camping
trip to Dawson Lake before harvest began.
The weather was chilly but we still had some family time kayaking,
playing at the playground, watching movies outside and sitting around the
campfire. It was a great way to close
our summer as this was defiantly an interesting summer for all of us.
Milestones: Crew was
BUG Award winner for November
Monday, August 31, 2020
June/July/August 2020

July tried to get us back to normal. We started off with our annual camping trip with the Johnson’s. Since the Sibley 4th of July celebration was cancelled (for the first time ever) we spent 4 days straight at the lake. We had awesome weather so it was a great time. The Vetters were also able to join us on the 4th which was nice too.
To wrap up July we made our annual trip to the Lake of the Ozarks. This year we brought a babysitter with us (Olivia Hawthorne) and the boys really enjoyed having her there and mom and dad liked the extra help. Grandpa and Grandma Stroh also came down for a couple of days to see the boys ski and do their stuff. The weather was hot and we only had one big rainstorm while we were there….which we got caught in. Crew also learned to ski this trip. 5 years old and a skiing machine. Makes us proud and the smile on his face was the best part!
August we sat on pins and needles seeing if school was going to proceed. About 2 weeks before the start date the school came out with the plan of eLearning on Wednesdays and in school the remaining days. We were very happy to hear that we would be attending in person and that we would be there 4 days. The rules had changed, of course, but we were will to go with it since it meant being able to see our friends and learn. The kids first day of school was the 19th, so they got up, packed their bags and put on their masks and got on the bus to go to school. It was a great feeling to see them go to school this year. One I hope I never take for granted again. Crew’s Kindergarten teacher this year is Mrs. Laughery and he is a frog. He was very excited about going on the bus with his big brother and seeing all his friends. A few in his class this year are Liam Hornstein, Emmi Lange and Audrey Killian.