Friday 20th March-Thursday 26th March.
So a little photo catch up diary of what we’ve been up to while isolating at home and how we’ve been getting through this weird time as a family.
On Friday 20th March we all finished school and work and came home and that was it- we were not to leave again except for essentials. Boris Johnson closed schools and therefore my business (as a dance studio running from schools) as well as all non essential businesses before putting us on a lockdown on Monday 23rd where we were only to leave our house for food, medicine or 1 exercise per day.
We were up and ready every day for PE with Joe Wicks at 9am-the kids did it while I planned the day or logged on to work emails and got a few bits done. We tried to get ourselves into a little bit of a routine as we knew this was going to be a little strange for us all. The children coped miraculously well, being generally upbeat and getting LB to do his school work was easy enough. LB is quite a homebird anyway like his dad and they are always quite happy being around the house and chilling out. I worried I wasn’t offering LB enough and I sat with him while he did all of his schoolwork, trying to work out if this is what he needed or whether I was going to be able to set the work and get on with other stuff I wanted to do. P roamed around playing and I always had a few activities for him to join us at the table for too. Thank goodness for friends who facetimed us each day with new challenges including a dragon mosaic, hand picture, a Harry Potter word challenge and more.
We baked Shortbread biscuits (a Halloween prepack that I found in the cupboard) and I even started reading a book that a student had lent me last year saying it was fabulous and I’ve been utterly rubbish at getting through. We spent Weekend mornings cuddling up In our PJS and I started to see little moments of beautiful bonding between the boys. I’m not sure it’ll last but it was lovely to witness.
I went our for our first Food shop in Lockdown and man is it strange out there. Queueing outside so there are only limited people in the store at one time, wearing gloves and masks and keeping 2 metres from everyone. Not that easy if I’m honest. Its quite anxiety inducing and we are trying to limit our shop to once very 7-10days. We baked Banana Bread and tried to fill our days with a real mix of school/work, housework and trying to get the kids to join in, outside time and fun things.
Its helped me to get some photos each day to show that we are doing something. I am an anxious person and have a tendency to think I’ve been lazy and done nothing, therefore I am generally stupidly busy and always feeling guilty. This is my way of realising that even on those slow days or the ones I feel a bit rubbish I can see that we’ve actually done more than I think and I haven’t wasted all that time.
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