Welcome to Groundhog Day.

Get up...check

Feed the baby....check

Chill out on the couch together before the others wake...check

Have breakfast with the rest of the family...check

Have a shower...check

Try to convince the 2.5-year-old to also have a shower...sometimes check Go for a walk...check

Get a coffee...check

Go to the playground...check

Put the babe down for a nap...check

And now the time is 9.30 am...well shit...

The days are blurring. The days are the same.

Then we get a warm day and I think all has resolved itself.

Then back to groundhog day. Wet. Cold. Lonely. But never alone.

Finding things to occupy a 2.5-year-old with no day naps, no playgrounds, no childcare, and a lot of rainy weather has been very hard. We are losing our patience with one another. I hear myself yelling and it makes me cringe.

I am sending so much love out to all the parents and carers doing home schooling, working and juggling it all. I don't know how we do it, but we do the best we can in our way and that's ok!

Personally, I've been spending 4 hours + on my phone and getting sucked into the black hole of horrible news. Covid, case numbers, exposure sights, Anti-vax, Death, kidnapping, missing persons, crime, covid.

On Wednesday I put down my phone and didn't pick it up for most of the day. I felt lighter and much happier. The day had no yelling or lost patience. It all felt a little less groundhoggy.

If you're feeling this, turn off the news, limit your screen time and stop being so hard on yourself.

Ps. Love ya Bill