I’m hoping that I will be able to keep this blog for a long time to come, so that 20, 30 years later, I can revisit my blog and remember this crazy crazy time that we’re living in.
It’s been such a shocking year, the rules no longer apply and all norms have been thrown out the window. It’s a year of setting new norms, the new norms of working from home, having meetings via little windows on your screen, where muting your microphone is now the new work etiquette.
The kids are also settling into their new norms. A daily routine where there is no longer school, no weekend outings, no trips to the shops, no family gatherings. Their world is now a small small world which consists of our little home to their Gung Gung Mah Mah’s house. When we bought my parents’ home a couple years back, we never knew how handy living in close proximity with them would be. Now the kids look forward to their daily walk from their house to their grandparents’ house.
Their playground is now the playground set that their GGMM installed in their backyard.
We go through Saitaoha’s class exercises online, she and her teacher exchange sweet video greetings to each other.
We are trying to do cosmic yoga exercise everyday, Mei Mei is an active participant too.
I’m glad that they’re too small to fear COVID or understand the mayhem that the world is facing. I just hope that this situation won’t last forever that this new norm of very limited social interaction will scar them for life. I hope they remember this time as a time when they got to see a lot of their parents, when mummy and papa ‘going to work’ meant they didn’t actually leave the house.
R has been struggling during this time too. He is recovering, thank goodness. But his work hours have been cut drastically, our trip to Adelaide to visit his family and new born niece has been cancelled. I know he was really looking forward to the trip so I can feel his sadness and disappointment. I’m lucky I have my parents right next to me and my siblings close by, he doesn’t
This new norm of COVID will have lasting repercussions on work for a long time to come I feel. My once super urgent project has come to a halt in light of COVID, we needed the extra time so I’m not too sad about it, but I wonder whether we will ever gain back the momentum when this is all over, or will the moment be lost forever? It was a once in a lifetime project, hampered by a once in a lifetime pandemic.
There will be moments of frustration and stress from being cooped up for so long, but for now, I’m glad my nearest and dearest are safe and sound and we still have our cocoon of a home to shelter us during this tough time.
Happy Easter folks!
daitaoha 