I love these threads. Back in March I was terrified of what was going to happen, with two medically vulnerable little boys at home and an nhs worker husband - but every night I would get into bed and read these threads and they made me feel a bit less alone. Still check in sometimes and came back tonight because I can feel the world is going a bit crazy again. This year has been so weird for me - my parents split up and I haven’t seen or spoken to my mum since July 10th. My nan came out of hospital yesterday after falling and breaking her hip in August (she’s 88 so to come through that is amazing) and these threads are still strangely comforting.
So to join in with my positives -
1) I feel a lot more ok with staying home - it used to drive me nuts and I’d feel like a caged animal but now, I take things a bit slower and realised it’s actually ok and the world won’t end if I don’t have a huge adventure everyday
2) after struggling with disordered eating and a massive fear of putting on weight, I actually put on some weight and I’ve realised that too is ok, it doesn’t matter
3) I found the courage to move my little 5 year old to a different school, after he just didn’t settle, was having trouble with the other kids and not learning much - he started in September at our local school and he is loving it!! He can read, gets full marks on his spellings each week and comes home full of what he’s learned AND the head keeps stopping me to tell me how funny he is
4)I feel a massive appreciation for my home and garden and where we live
5) I am so proud of how my kids have coped with it all - they all said they loved lockdown and being at home, eldest 2 jumped at going back to school to see their friends for their last weeks of year six and have gone off to their secondary schools with no issues
so thanks tattlers, I’m going to keep coming back to this thread