I know so many parents out there are trying to keep it together whilst in isolation and I just want to let you all know, your doing all such an amazing job considering the circumstances!
We don’t have our village to ask for that physical extended help but just think for a moment how resilient we are going to become after this.
We are teaching ourselves a new way of living, some of us have had to make huge adjustments and others only small. But in the end we would have had to change something to accommodate what’s going on in the world.
Some are home schooling, some are working ridiculous amounts of hours to keep up with the essential services, some are working from home and others just can’t bloody socialise face to face like we used to (me, thats me… hanging for that first family/friends group wine o’clock catch up in person)
But just because we are locked up to an extent doesn’t mean we have to have a spotless house and reorganise everything like the memes have been telling us we should OR that we gotta bake like we are super productive in the kitchen, because I can assure you, I am not that person even before this out break.
Instead, I’ve been doing the things that make me feel somewhat mentally ok.
I’ve been getting out walking 2 times a day, doing yoga when possible and making it a fun time with the boys.
It’s really amazing what physical movement will do for the mind.
This whole isolation made me feel really terrible in the beginning and I was watching the News way to much, I was feeling the weight of the worlds problems through the TV. People loosing there jobs and people dying, it was making me so sad that I had to just stop watching it all together. Not that I didn’t care for those people or take in how serious this virus has been on the world but I just didn’t want to keep contributing that energy out into the universe.
I needed to tune into a new way of thinking and how I was going to survive through this time and hopefully spread some optimism rather then fear.
So I’ve decided to make patience my best friend through this time, especially with the kids and on that note my eyebrows lol.
Because this will pass and when it does, we are going to be different. And it will be a good different and I’ll have better shaped eyebrows and I’m so exited for it 🥰
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