The kids returned to school last Monday. There was a little anxiety the day before and that first morning was a bit nerve racking because we’d forgotten how our old routine went, how to get up and out of the house so early... also, I happened to have my first gig in months (other than those little YouTube recordings) and had to get into town super early that day for a recording. Isolated, of course, just me and and a few others at a distance, outside. They actually only needed me for the visuals, the sound was pre-recorded by another cellist. Check it out🐝🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsLiNMk6iDg
Lucy and Molly seem to have settled back into school pretty well, and Emma seems to be enjoying kindy, even though her first day back on Wednesday she kicked up a major fuss before we went. There was quite a bit of screaming. Some of it was from me. I was having a bad few days for some reason and found my patience threshold was a lot lower than usual so I may have thrown the tweezers across the room, after wrestling with her little foot (where the offending splinter was) for some time and then being kicked in the face. It took a VERY long time to calm everyone down, get out the damn splinter and drive to kindy. Emma was happy enough to go in but then an overly enthusiastic (but well meaning) educator greeted her at the door with a thermometer aimed at Emma’s head and frightened the hell out of us both. More screaming from poor old Emma. (They now check all the kids for fever when they arrive.) I had to hang around for a bit but eventually she remembered that she has good friends there and it’s way more fun than being at home with boring old mum. (Though she and I did have a pretty fun picnic on our driveway on Monday, because it was freezing cold but it was nice and sunny out there in the morning.)
It was quite strange to be at home with no kids, just Scott in the bedroom tapping away at his computer. Lunch was very quiet. I had wanted some time alone for so long and then it was here and hard to get used to.... we really had a rhythm going with our homeschooling life. But this is good. Life had to go back to normal eventually. Scott is still working from home for now so it’s not totally back to normal.
There are a lot of thoughts spinning around in my head about what our normal will be, and can we keep some of the SLOW from lockdown life when we fully return to our regular busy life... I really don’t know how... I gotta think on this some more. I think maybe because the kids were gone I was finally able to think about everything, a little too much....made myself a bit crazy... was a weird week.
Our favourite local cafe is still closed but is doing takeaway so today Scott and I went and grabbed a coffee/hot chocolate and sat in the park nearby. Lucy babysat. I sent her this photo while we were out:
And she sent this one back:
When we got back Scott and I attended Molly’s Lion King Festival that she’d been working on all day. I think that needs its very own post😍
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