Like many school kids in Central Maine (and the nation), our daughters are fully remote this week. Why? The concept is to provide a quarantine time for families that may have left the state, or had large gatherings, over the Christmas and New Years' Holidays. Honestly, I think it makes for a really chill transition between vacation mode and school mode. While I am glad I made it through my childhood without a global pandemic, I think it would have been cool to have a transition period between vacation and school. Anyway... On Monday, their first day back in class, my wife had set both 9 year old Denise and 7 year old Annie up with their "classroom corners". They were separated so that they would be able to participate in their classes without interfering with each other.