A day in the life

Thursday March 25^th

Today felt like a typical day from hot season stay-at-home last year.  Ground hog day or family tradition? The first time around it seemed like a surreal time, but here we are doing it again.

Soeun had people from the neighbourhood doing some yard work for us. It was a win-win. We got cement down, pond dug  etc, while they had paid work, during this weird time when schools are closed the main industry of the town basically vanished.

And inside our house our children are consuming paper and pens as they draw, draw, draw.  Creating a whole other magical country which looks only 2D to me but holds their attention like it is real.

Time seems to pass differently on hot days. Instead of a straight line the day kind of meanders. Or maybe it’s that we are on school holidays.

Friday March 26^th

It is the time of year we get out the wading pool. Soeun already cleaned it and looked for the holes to fix, but it seems there are too many. Blow up pools are more trouble than they are worth, I think next I want to get a huge plastic or metal basin instead.

During “nap time” (that period of time after lunch when the kids used to nap but now watch youtube) Daddy interrupted  our children and asked them to come outside with him. The first I knew of it was all the screaming and running. I thought something bad happened, but it turned out that the kids were so excited. In the process of renovating the duck pond, Daddy had created a huge shallow swimming pool. Less than 20cm of water but  a couple of meters down in the ground.

So much fun. Water guns came out.  Both the kids were sooo happy. “We don’t need to go the ICF wake park anymore, we have our own.”  

I went for the first bike ride in a week. Rode to some of the roadblock on the borders of our commune as we have a travel ban at the moment, partly just to see them and partly to find where I could meet someone from in town if I need them to buy meds for me. The barriers weren’t at all where I thought they would be so it was a bit more interesting than I thought.  Also wanted to see the market, still open, but a bit quiet and the chemist where the covid patient went was taped off with police tape.