Living Arrows 2020 – 47/52

Well last week was a bit of a washout wasn’t it!

As a general rule I quite like the rain, but it just felt relentless last week and doing the school run in the rain just really isn’t fun.

Although saying that, it did make me laugh on Monday when I went to pick the children up in a woolly hat and a face mask that covered so much of my face that no one recognised me.  The poor teachers had to come right over to check it was me before letting Rhys and Nerys leave with me.

It was funny at the time, but did make me think afterwards about how hard it must be for the staff to keep track of everyone now we’re all wearing masks on the school grounds and lining up all the way across the yard to keep a safe distance from each other!

We did have a little break from all the rain on Sunday luckily, which made things a bit easier with the children’s swimming lessons.

Last week it was pouring down which really wasn’t great when they’re meant to arrive at lessons ‘beach ready’.  Which meant they were in their swimming costumes and dressing gowns with coats over the top and crocs on their feet, dashing across the car park.

So it was much nicer this week to do the routine in the sunshine.

When we got home Nerys was sitting on our bed waiting for her turn in the shower and the light coming in the window was just perfect for a few quick photos.

I can’t remember what Steve and I had said to her, but she really got the giggles about something and so we ended up with these photos which I absolutely love.

She has such a great sense of humour this one, and just gets our sarcasm and silly jokes and when she gets the giggles like this it is almost impossible not to start laughing along with her.

I’m impressed I managed to get these photos in focus to be honest, the amount we were both laughing when I took them!

The children have got an inset day today which has come at just the right time.  They’ve both seemed tired lately and really in need of an extra day to just relax a bit.

So they’ll be mainly having a slow start to the day while I have the strange experience of doing parent-teacher consultations for both of them over the phone.

Then we’ll head out for a walk in the afternoon and pop up to visit Pops to celebrate his birthday.  It’s also our 13th wedding anniversary today so we have that to celebrate too!

Later on this week the children need to dress up in their Christmas jumpers and wrap themselves in tinsel to record their videos at school that are going to take the place of the usual Christmas concert.

Nerys’ class are reciting a Christmas poem and Rhys’ are singing ‘step into Christmas’.  Except they’re not singing.  They’re lip-synching, because they’re not allowed to actually sing in class together.

It’s such a little thing, and the children won’t even think anything of it really, they’ll still have a blast dancing and mouthing the words to the song.  But it feels like one more little thing, after a year of things being different and uncertain, that the children have had to adapt to and it just reminds me again of how resilient they are, how they’re just, somehow, taking things in their stride.  And I’m slightly in awe of them to be honest.