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 months. Life is strange at the moment for everyone but I still want to try and record some of our happier moments.

Monday Happy List {Week 295}

We are making a huge effort to get through the weeks when they all feel exactly the same. We focus on home learning in the morning but it usually spills into the afternoon too. We play games, play outside, go for walks and try to keep busy. Weekends are more fun with longer trips out and no home learning!

So what made last week feel any different to the one before? Before lockdown began we sent away for our BEAR Grrreatest Games card keeper and stickers and they finally arrived. The children love playing with their BEAR cards so this has kept them busy, sorting them out, playing with their cards and putting stickers on everything. We even made a little video about them.

Our week is filled with Zoom meetings and the children both look forward to their Cubs meeting more than anything. This week they did a Kahoot quiz and they loved learning something new – in fact we’ve done a few Kahoot quizzes at home now too! They were challenged to spend 2 nights in a sleeping bag as their Cub Camp was cancelled. They managed one night out in a tent and one indoors!

We had our first McDonalds in 10 weeks! I’m not a huge fan of McDonalds but we’ve been treating ourselves to one takeaway a week (which is an amazing break from constantly preparing meals). We had our last McDonalds on Monday 23rd March, the day they shut, so it was fun to have another one. It gave us all a little boost, although I can’t say I want another one anytime soon!

As usual we’ve been on lots of dog walks and found lots of geocaches. This is a great way for us to explore new places and over the weekend we re-visited the Battle of Britain House in Ruislip Woods, as well as Bulstrode Camp, a bizarre Iron Age fort encircled by a housing estate in Gerrards Cross.

Over the weekend we finished putting together a story book sign. This was a challenge from the children’s school and something my son wanted to make. We cut 5 finger posts and he decorated each one with in the style of a different book. He enjoyed it (although it all felt a little last minute as homework does!) and we will be dropping it at school today. I quite fancy making my own literary garden sign post.