Half term.
I can’t quite get my head around the fact that we’ve spent the last half term at home.
Most of the time we’ve just sort of been getting on with it all, to the point that it all feels quite normal for us all to just be at home. Then I actually stop and think about it and realise quite how mad this situation is.
It does make me feel better about the days when I struggle and the children struggle.
This is such a bizarre time we’re living through. I don’t think any of us ever thought we would experience something like this, when our children would be out of school for such an extended amount of time.
Of course we’re going to have hard days. Or course we’ll struggle to process it all.
What is so surreal about it all though is that, a lot of the time, things are good. We’re happy. We’re incredibly lucky to be together, and to be healthy. Days have lost all meaning, in the best possible way. We can go for walks through the park, as a family, on a random Tuesday afternoon.
We can sit out in the sun, listening to the birds singing louder than ever, noticing the seasons changing around us.
The thought of going back to the old routine of school days and clubs and swimming lessons is really strange now to be honest.
I still don’t know when the schools will open up again here in Wales, and even once they are open I’m assuming it’ll be quite a while before the school week is anything close to ‘normal’.
I do wonder how different life and the world will look when we do start coming out the other side.
Nerys quite often talks about the things she wants to do ‘when this is all over’, and I do find it quite strange to think about. At the moment I just can’t imagine going out and doing the things we would normally be doing.
We went out to the supermarket yesterday and I noticed when we got home that I instinctively pushed the kitchen door open with my elbow, feeling like a surgeon on their way to theatre having scrubbed their hands clean.
We all wash our hands as soon as we come home from a walk, even if we’ve not touched anything while we were out.
The whole family now naturally cough into our elbows instead of our hands like we used to.
I wonder how long it’ll take before those kind of new habits start to fade away.
Do you think they will?
Do you think that we’ll all revert to our old habits quite quickly, or will we always now be more mindful of touching our faces and washing our hands?
I feel exactly the same about all of this! I can’t imagine ever being in a crowd of people again, but I’m sure eventually we will all just forget and go back to normal. So hard to imagine though! #livingarrows
I can’t imagine large crowds – it’s quite scary really. I’m not sure whether life will ever quite be the same again but LOOK AT THOSE CUTE SMILES!
I feel so sad spending school holidays at home. This last week we should have been having a little road trip around Wales followed by a weekend in Liverpool. We’ll do it next year instead! x
I am really struggling with it all now. But I can not see the normal being normal again for a long time. We should have been off in Croatia this half term and the kids have been asking about going to the beach for the longest time. I do think habits will drift back but probably not for a long time.
Its such a strange time. We should’ve been in Guernsey this week and I’m not sure when we will be going away again. x
They are such strange times we’re living in aren’t they. Gabe often starts sentences with ‘When corona virus is over…’ – I wonder how much of the time pre-covid the little ones will remember? I still wonder if we will get a vaccine any time soon and if we do will everything just go back to ‘normal’?
We aways spend half terms at home but normally with lots of day trips and meet ups with friends, so that was a little strange to us. This post really resonated with me tonight after having an emotionally draining day today. I can’t imagine just going back to the hustle and bustle of daily school routines either now. #livingarrows