It's been another ordinary week in our household, if you ignore the current crisis of course. Day to day life has been largely uninterrupted for us, we've both continued to work as normal so, on the face of it, life within our own four walls seems very much the same.
I'm enjoying the slower pace of life, there seems to be more time for everything. The urge to clean the house that I felt so strongly at the beginning of lockdown has waned, the housework is still getting done, just not to the my-Mother-is-coming-to-stay level of recent weeks. And whilst I'm waiting for my concentration level to get back to normal, my motivation is back. I'd had periods of needing to just sit and be quiet, feeling anxious, but my need to get stuff done has returned, I just need to concentrate on one thing at a time, and prioritise work over thinning out my Amaranthus seedlings a little more.
Whilst I know the situation is still very serious, I'm feeling more hopeful and I think this can be attributed to the flattening of the curve. Lockdown has begun to do what it set out to do. I know there is still a long way go, and life will continue to be affected by coronavirus for months to come, but it feels like we're going in the right direction.
Soon we'll know the plan for easing the restrictions of lockdown, and I have to admit to feeling a little nervous about this. Depending on what they say the anxiousness may well return for a while afterwards, maybe I'll start cleaning at Mum-is-visiting levels again, it all depends on how sensible and safe the plan appears to be.
I'd be happy with another three weeks of lockdown, perhaps even another three after that. But I know that's easy for me to say when, for us, it's business as almost usual. I know how lucky we are that the disruption to our daily lives has been comparatively minimal so far.
I hope you're keeping well and sane in these strange times. How has your week been?
xx
