TORRES HOUSE

What a strange time we are finding ourselves in! It’s a time where we are making memories as families, good and bad ones…and a time where history is written. The words Coronavirus and COVID-19 are the oficial new words added to the dictionary as of March 2020. One day, in many years when our grandchildren will study about Covid-19, it is our children who will tell on the stories how we spend time in lockdown. Our job is to make sure, they are lovely and happy stories…To quote one of my favourite books and authors, Charlie Mackesy: “The storm will pass.” (from The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse)

Now the “honeymoon period” of – yey, no school, no work, we can stay at home – is over, I hear more and more people saying that they are struggling with the monotony and boredom. However as a parent of small children, you probably don’t even have boredom in your dictionary. You do breakfast, tidy, TRY to work from home, prepare lunch and before you even finished tidying everything away in-between trying to referee between the kids, its already dinner time. I think we all found ourselves in a situation where we felt lost…lost in the day, week, time…And as mums we always try to be the balance scale and the good mood creator. Whenever I feel that my husband is getting a bit snappy, I send him out on a bike ride haha. I am telling you, I will need social distancing from my family including dog when this is all over…

In the meantime, like everybody else, I am trying to make the best out of the situation. We get up early, get dressed! (no pyjamas all day long days here), I even put a bit of mascara, blusher and jewellery on just to feel better. I exercise every day. It gets all the negative frustration out and just sets me for the day. We eat all our meals together which we absolutely enjoyed doing. And we go for long family walks, in the woods, in the South Downs or in fields.

I created a few to do lists (for myself, hubby and the kids) and everyone needs to do at least one job a day. On my to-do list I have for example:

ME:

• clear out kitchen cupboards (declutter)
• sort out the utility room.
• clean oven, dishwasher, washing machine
• clean windows upstairs & downstairs
• sort out the girls wardrobes
• sort out my wardrobe (declutter)
• put away winter clothes
• sort out my jewellery box
• sort out our paper work, sort out kids pictures
• finally sort all all the wedding pictures

HUBBY:

• Clean under the stairs
• Clear out shed
• Clean car
• get rid of garden weed
• seed new grass seeds
• sort out wardrobe
• tidy the loft
• build BBQ area
• back up phones etc

The lists are endless with jobs which have been due for a long time and to be honest with you, I am a little scared it’s all going to be over to soon and those jobs will remain on the waiting list…To make it fun, we try to do different meal nights, Mexican night with nachos & fajitas, Indian night with a home-made curry or Italian night with pizza and pasta. It’s been fun and the girls love it. The sun is shining and so far we are all in good spirits. What is more important than this really?! And like my eldest daughter says: “the world is healing, Mummy!”

Love, Lena

xxx