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. 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 286}

It’s been pretty hard trying to get the children to do much school work at home. The teachers have given them plenty of work but it has been hard to motivate them. We’ve been concentrating on Maths and English and then made sure to learn in other ways. We’ve played games, sat around colouring or crafting and played in the garden and even washed the cars. We’ve baked a lot too, last week included Easter biscuits, bread, sausage rolls, brownies and bread and butter pudding!

My son was really excited about pranking us all on April Fool’s Day this year. He carefully planned some jokes so I decided to plan my own April Fool’s Day joke. I presented the children with a plate of brown E’s, yes brown cardboard letter E’s, instead of the brownies they thought they were getting!

We’re looking forward to Easter this weekend. It will be sad not spending it with the family but we’re still going to try and have a good time. This year we’ve shared some new Easter crafts including our recycled cardboard Easter chicks, Easter Egg Hunt sign and personalised Easter bunny holders.

I finally finished my Shipping Forecast quilt. I bought some gorgeous Liberty binding and hand stitched it. I feel a bit deflated now I’ve finished it so I need to start on something else!

Yesterday we had a BBQ as the weather was so amazing over the weekend. We’re lucky to live on the outskirts of London so have plenty of access to green spaces. We’ve been discovering all kids of fields and tracks we never knew existed which is amazing (especially for our pup). After two weeks of no social contact we’re all beginning to feel the strain though. The kids decorated the table with Dutch flags and pictures as we decided The Netherlands was our happy place after our lovely holidays at Duinrell. Hopefully we can make pancakes or some other Dutch treats with them.

Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.