Yesterday was a really lovely day. I'm pretty sure that's the first time since Lockdown started that I've said that. And it's rained all day!
It's come at a really good time as we have just received a call to say Cub has been added to the UK's vulnerable list - which basically means we need to take extra measures to ensure he remains home and is 'shielded' from the virus by all of us.
So to have a good day was important as we may be facing Lockdown for a lot longer than everyone else.
I asked myself what it was that made it good and I realised we had no cross words, no raised voices, and we did all of the important things.
Then it struck me. We got up at the normal time and the kids actually went to bed a little later than usual (as we kept them up to Clap for Carers at 8pm) and yet we had only done the things that had real value. Family value. We had not pushed ourselves to complete loads of school work and I had not completed any paid work.
We just did the basics and spent the rest of the day in shared activities to keep the kids amused (and in fairness, educated at the same time as I did use each as a learning exercise where I could).
So we built spider tegenariums, we watched a moth hatch from it's chrysalis, we found out how hail formed (prompted by a hail storm), we built train tracks and we baked rice pudding.
Daddy was working all day so it was just me and the three, but we enjoyed our day and all went to bed calm and happy inside.
So this is the way forward for us. Perhaps I'm finally winding down enough to see the lesson in all of this - if I focus on what really matters, spending time doing so much less can give us so much more.
WM xx
It's come at a really good time as we have just received a call to say Cub has been added to the UK's vulnerable list - which basically means we need to take extra measures to ensure he remains home and is 'shielded' from the virus by all of us.
So to have a good day was important as we may be facing Lockdown for a lot longer than everyone else.
I asked myself what it was that made it good and I realised we had no cross words, no raised voices, and we did all of the important things.
Then it struck me. We got up at the normal time and the kids actually went to bed a little later than usual (as we kept them up to Clap for Carers at 8pm) and yet we had only done the things that had real value. Family value. We had not pushed ourselves to complete loads of school work and I had not completed any paid work.
We just did the basics and spent the rest of the day in shared activities to keep the kids amused (and in fairness, educated at the same time as I did use each as a learning exercise where I could).
So we built spider tegenariums, we watched a moth hatch from it's chrysalis, we found out how hail formed (prompted by a hail storm), we built train tracks and we baked rice pudding.
Daddy was working all day so it was just me and the three, but we enjoyed our day and all went to bed calm and happy inside.
So this is the way forward for us. Perhaps I'm finally winding down enough to see the lesson in all of this - if I focus on what really matters, spending time doing so much less can give us so much more.
WM xx
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