For the second time in two months, we are in quarantine. Thus far, we are well, and that’s something to be happy about, but it’s feeling a bit much at the moment. School hasn’t even started yet, and I’ll be taking yet another bout of leave (which isn’t leave — no one does my job…
Tag: covid
Birth in the time of covid
Some of this post could be triggering to those who have experienced birth trauma. Please be mindful of this if you choose to read it. I need to stop following covid case numbers. They aren’t changing anything for me beyond a creeping anxiety that every slight cough my children make is a sign that something…
Déjà vu
It is Christmas, or nearly so, and we are yet again wearing masks in shops and watching case numbers climb as we go about our merry way attempting to buy gifts and see family or friends and pretend it isn’t happening all over again. Thanks, covid — best gift ever. Sarcasm aside, this is life…
Quarantine games
Around the house we go, creating games to pass the time. Hide and seek, capture the flag, obstacle course… Any excuse to run wildly. Pull some weeds, rake the earth, cover our fingers in dirt, plant some seeds we found in the cupboard somewhere. Picture a meadow of flowers. Listen to the rhythm of the…
Here, we wait.
“Where do you want to go today?” I ask my oldest. She has a thing for the Northern Lights, so we spend a little while trawling YouTube for videos before doing another few laps around the house. She put together a rainbow obstacle course for part of the lap, just to mix things up, and…
The pandemic continues
We’re in our fourth Saturday in a row of covid testing and quarantine. I’m a bit over it. Daycare / school bugs caught us the last three weeks and now, it seems we may have crossed paths with someone with the omicron variant. And so we wait, again — this time, with the knowledge that…
Trajectories
If you had told me back in late 2019 that all the places I loved would burn that year while a pandemic raged, I would have thought you were mad. And yet, here we are. Two years later and we’ve gone through months of smoke, catastrophic hail, two lockdowns, and now, the slow march towards…