First day of school!

First day both kids have been in-person at school at the same time in two and a half years. And it was so amazingly quiet, afterward. It used to be like this all the time, I dimly remember.

Anyway, I have plans for the extra time, but today was not a day to explore those plans. Today was a day to clean up the living room to the point where I could navigate it. And to eat fried dumplings. But mostly to explore the sounds of silence.