It’s looking more and more like the kids will be having some sort of on line learning in about 100 days when school starts. Funny to talk about school starting when it’s not even over yet. Anyhow it looks like college will be in person in some fashion but schools like Ty’s could be in for a much tougher go of it. We’re anticipating distance or at home learning for him as of now. Knowing this, us and other parents are questioning paying such huge tuition for an at home experience here in Vail. We called our good friends Rick and Devon Smith whose son Cooper has been doing on line school for years. Rick is the Head of HR for Vail Health and Devon is a mortgage broker. Coop has been going or learning through Colorado Connections Academy which is a Colorado accredited school that has schools nationwide and has had kids go to colleges from Yale to UCLA to Stanford. Best of all, it’s free! The kids have face to face classes with each teacher once a week and then work on their own the rest of the time. With all going on, Ty is looking at this as an option. We told him it might be smarter for us to put the money we’d spend on tuition money in a savings account for him instead of paying our school for on line learning when CCA has been doing, and more importantly knows how to do on line learning already. If we’d been in on line learning all along the kids would have over $300,000 plus whatever it earned right now in a savings account! Of course it wouldn’t have replaced what they learned or their experience but the point is it’s now a different time. More to come soon.
I’m getting some work done on the truck today, just regular maintenance. Work is crazy with lots going on. The house is coming along and we made some decisions yesterday on a few things that saved some money. Jag is doing well even though his and every kids World has been turned upside down. We feel so bad for the kids as it shouldn’t be this way, especially for those graduating.
Lori’s head might be getting a little better. We’re keeping our fingers crossed. We’re racking our brains to come up with the new business idea in these new times to adapt to the new normal. We have a couple thoughts in mind and will keep you posted. I’m picking up some bone in steaks today at Edwards Meats in Wheat Ridge for our neighbor and us tonight. I also need to order the bbq for the house and decide which 65″ tv we’re getting. Last thing is a hot tub for outside but we might need to wait on that depending on the cost.
That’s it, Mothers Day is Sunday. Send flowers and candy now! Here’s a call to action for the day, think of a comment to write this weekend about your mother, no matter how old you are! Be well, be safe and God Bless.