Hello again, how are we all doing on day seventy billion of lockdown? Like a lot of people I think we have good days and bad days, or rather ups and downs every day. We’re plodding on though…. what else can we do really?

Happy Easter! I hope you all managed to have an enjoyable weekend even if it wasn’t the one you had originally planned. We were supposed to be in Yorkshire until Friday but then would have had a quiet weekend at home anyway so it wasn’t much different for us really!

I don’t know about anybody else but time seems to be going at least three times slower than usual now we don’t have anywhere to go or anywhere we need to be! Last week was just more of the same for us – a bit of school work, a lot of Lego and plenty of time outside in the garden, although the weather wasn’t quite as kind to us last week.

Morning all! So how was week 1 for you? After I wrote just a week ago that we had come up with a vague timetable for our days it became clear after one day that it wasn’t really going to work for us!

I don’t really know what to write this week. Like the rest of the country we are at the start of a very different time in all our lives. So far the boys have taken all the news and school closure in their stride but as we all try to find our new normal I think there will be lots of emotional times to come.

Well it’s been a funny old week hasn’t it? There’s so much uncertainty about corona virus at the moment. We’re trying to keep things as normal as possible for the boys but also trying to prepare them a little bit for what might be coming if schools do close.

This last week has been all about World Book Day for Toby and Gabe. As well as dressing up for school on Thursday they also had a book swap at school. In the afternoon parents and carers were invited to go in to ‘share a story’ so I went in with my mum to read with the boys.

So February is over and I’m really hoping we’ve seen the back of the horrible weather that we seem to have had for the whole month! The first week back at school went pretty smoothly all things considered, and now the boys are just counting down until World Book Day later this week!

And just like that half term is over and Toby and Gabe are back to school this morning. We’ve actually had a really good week off – the weather has been pretty horrible but we managed a good mix of going out and staying in, and hopefully the boys are feeling rested and ready for another six weeks of school before the next holiday!

We made it! It’s half term and I think we are all ready for it. The boys survived the last week of term without any drama though, apart from having to start wearing their new school shoes and Gabe complaining that his ‘felt funny’!