5 Things I learnt during lockdown

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Lockdown has been tough. Honestly at times I wasn't sure how we would make it through, but we did bit it’s definitely been a learning curve.

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Here’s 5 things I learnt during lockdown:

  1. I’ve learnt to appreciate the quality time more - yes it may seem we have been inundated with ‘quality’ time with those we live with around the homeschooling, working and the other daily tasks but I never really appreciated it, until it was just us. The long evening walks, the weekends spent in the garden, creating new memories, new traditions, some which I hope we will keep once all of this is a distant memory.

  2. I need to look after my mental health much more - Lockdown had a huge impact on my mental health and by week three I was struggling immensely, heading back into the dark clouds that had fogged my early motherhood. I realised that the tools and strategies I had in place pre-lockdown had massively been helping but most of these were no longer accessible (childcare support, time alone, spinning) and so we had to find alternatives.

  3. My bond with Isabella has grown - I’ve always felt a struggle with our bond, and it’s taken a long time for it to develop but lockdown has definitely strengthened that bond and brought us closer together.

  4. I’ve enjoyed the slowing down of life - I was always so so busy pre-lockdown, always doing but I’ve spent less time doing and more time being. I’ve always kept myself busy, filling every minute of every day, always looking for the next thing to do, the next place to go to, but lockdown forced me to slow down. I’m not saying it’s been easy, and I’m still working on ‘just being’ but it’s definitely getting easier to just sit and do nothing.

  5. I’m scared for the future - Lockdown and Corna-virus changed our world and everyone’s experience of this time will be completely different but I worry for how the world will be going forward, for Isabella and the decisions we may need to make as parents to keep us all as safe as possible.

One more thing I learnt was not to buy a house during lockdown! But that being said, I would have been devastated to still not have been in our own place.