I love to start the week by writing the Monday Happy List. It’s a chance for me to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s usually a post I love to write but obviously life has changed considerably for us and everyone else in the UK over the last few weeks. It’s a bit of a cliche but I do love this quotation by Alice Morse Earle: “Every day may not be good…but there’s something good in every day”. Life is hard at the moment for everyone but I still want to try and record some of our happier moments.

Monday Happy List {Week 285}

First up is I changed my blog header from the winter version. Ok it’s a really small thing but we have officially started Spring and the clocks went forward.  Winter felt long so I’m trying to channel positivity about Spring and being able to spend more time in our garden. I spent my birthday money on some seeds which should hopefully arrive this week.

We managed some school work, Maths and English in the morning but science, history and geography in the afternoons. We supplemented the work that school shared with us by joining in with PE with Joe Wicks (exhausting!) and my son was able to enjoy his weekly art class with Blank Canvas Art Club via Zoom. This week we need to squeeze in some karate too as I really don’t want my children to forget everything.

My daughter loves the idea of everyone putting rainbow pictures in their windows (I have a free rainbow printable here). We’ve been looking out for them when we go for a walk every day. Thankfully the walk has been a real highlight of our day, except for watching the daily news briefing. We haven’t managed to get another online delivery slot so will have to consider bigger shops although neither of us want to risk going to a large supermarket right now.

We’ve walked everywhere. We are so fortunate to live on the outskirts of London with Ruislip Woods a 10 minute walk away. We have plenty of spaces to take our little pup for a walk and more adventurous places to take the children on their bikes if they need a more challenging walk. We’ve loaded Pokemon Go onto our phones which keeps Little Sis busy too.

My son’s birthday party had to be cancelled so we spent Saturday playing computer games and enjoying delicious Baby Yoda cupcakes my friend had made. We played Frantics, Uno and Ticket to Ride which was fun. It’s going to be hard separating the weeks from the weekends so we might be doing a lot more of this!

Stay at home, protect the NHS and stay safe.