This evening my daughter went out to sing Christmas carols with neighbours on our estate. The first time this happened was in 2020 (slightly differently), so this post is both #DecemberDecisions #Day19 and #FiveYearsOn (which I’ll be reprising for a while in January).
My #FiveYearsOn posts were reflective note-making on my reflective notes from daily activities. I’m so glad to have this, and am kind of missing it. #LTHEchat #A6
Today I did my last regular #FiveYearsOn post. I also discovered what I did on this day 29 years ago, as my daughter found, and read out loud to me, a babysitting diary I kept as a teenager! #SemanticSeptember #Day6
On Sunday 6th September 2020 we:
Played a pretend poker game (son),
Cleared drawer & put away school uniform (me & daughter),
Tidied bedroom (daughter).
3/9 activities.
My last day in the 1st lockdown recording my children’s activities. So the last of these posts for a while!
#FiveYearsOn #Day168
Saturday 5th September 2020 included:
Teddies game (son and daughter),
Poker trick (son, with daughter and husband),
Shopping in town (me and daughter).
3/9 activities.
#FiveYearsOn #Day168
On Friday 4th September 2020 we:
Went to the playground, and played football (son, daughter, Grandad and cousin),
Planned chess tournament in a notebook (son),
Played poker (husband, son and daughter).
3/10 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day167
On Wednesday 3rd September 2020, we (well, not me!):
Played Pitch n Putt /mini golf (both children, Grannie and Grandad),
Made apple jelly (daughter and Grannie),
Played in an online chess competition (son).
3/6 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day166
On Tuesday 2nd September 2020 we:
Packed suitcases (daughter & me),
Went to Grannie & Grandad’s (both children),
Sieved roots & stones from soil where the Pampas Grass (bane of my childhood!) had been (daughter, cousin, Grannie & Grandad)
3/6 activities listed #OnlyaFewDaysLeft
#FiveYearsOn #Day165
On Tuesday 1st September 2020, we:
Read How to train your dragon (son),
Read The Week (magazine passed on by a neighbour) and did puzzles in it (daughter).
2/2 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day164
On Monday 31st August 2020, we:
Travelled home from Nanna and Grandpa’s (husband and both children),
Played Fall Guys on the PlayStation (son and daughter).
2/2 activities listed in my notebook.
#FiveYearsOn #Day163
Again on Sunday 30th August 2020, I have no idea what educational activities my children did. My notebook just has the date, and I know from the previous days that they were away without me, I presume I spoke to them… but maybe not!
#FiveYearsOn #Day162
On Saturday 29th August 2020 we (they - my children and husband were away without me):
Played lots of Canasta (likely both children and Nanna, alternating in a 4th between their dad and Grandpa),
Played computer games on the television (both children).
2/2 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day161
On Friday 28th August 2020 we (well, they):
travelled to visit Nanna and Grandpa (husband and both children).
1/1 activities listed.
I, I think, had time to myself for the first time!
#FiveYearsOn #Day160
Thursday 27th August 2020 was a second day in a row where I didn’t record any activities. (Don’t worry - I won’t keep this up when I actually get to the point where I stopped recording!)
#FiveYearsOn #Day159
A mostly bland notebook page, with just Wednesday 26th August written at the top.
I have no idea what we did on Wednesday 26th August 2020!
Getting near the end of my regular record-keeping of my children’s activities during and beyond the 1st Covid lockdown…
#FiveYearsOn #Day158
On Tuesday 25th August 2020, we
Had friends over to play (not seen since before March) (husband & both children),
Played Pie Face (children I presume - I was getting slapdash in my record keeping at this point!),
Played cricket in the garden (children?).
3/6 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day157
And now I'm halfway through my sixth year of the outside world seeming like a massive threat - oh, because it is - and my world becoming very small as a result. #StillCoviding #FiveYearsOn
On Monday 24th August 2020 we:
Were in the garden (both children),
Played Fall Guys on the PlayStation (son, husband and daughter),
Monopoly pieces competition (son).
3/6 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day156
On Sunday 23rd August 2020 we:
Read a chess magazine (son),
Set up our new laptop - the old one was completely broken (me and both children),
Wrote up Monopoly pieces competition results, and plans (son).
3/8 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day155
On Saturday 22nd August 2020 we:
Took pancake orders (daughter),
Played the piano (daughter, auntie and cousin),
Sorted bag of clothes from neighbour (me and daughter).
3/18 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day154
On Friday 21st August 2020 we:
Played Word Scramble (me, both children and Grannie),
Collecting Acorns (and other things) in Highgate Woods (me, both children, grandparents & cousin),
Played Mexican Train (me, both children, grandparents & uncle)
3/15 activities
#FiveYearsOn #Day153
Thursday 20th August included:
Sudoku (daughter),
Go Ape! At Ally Pally (both children, with me, Grannie and Grandad watching),
Boules in garden (both children, with grandparents).
3/9 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day152
Wednesday 19th August 2020 included:
(Telling us a?) story about hot air balloons when at the station (son),
Played Rummikub (me, both children and Grannie),
Made name labels for the table (at Grannie and Grandad’s) (daughter)
3/13 activities listed
#FiveYearsOn #Day151
With today being #Day150 of #FiveYearsOn (and especially knowing that I wasn’t doing these record keeping posts by day 200…) I thought it good excuse to share my post about this daily project looking back at the past, in and out of lockdown.
On Tuesday 18th August 2020 we:
Went to the shops to buy shoes for daughter (me and both children),
Watched a YouTube video on using an abacus (me and daughter, son a bit),
Practiced using the abacus
3/8 activities listed
#FiveYearsOn #Day150 !!!
On Monday 17th August 2020 we:
Had my friend and her baby over,
Played Mind the Gap (me, both children and friend),
Made chocolate chip ice-cream (me and daughter)
3/16 items listed
#FiveYearsOn #Day149
Sunday 16th August 2020 included:
Monopoly pieces competition (son),
Cricket in garden (son and daughter),
Fall Guys on PlayStation (both children and husband).
3/12 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day148
On Saturday 15th August 2020 we:
Played Lego Friends Bake-off (daughter and son),
Had a zoom call with Grannie and Grandad (me and both children),
Made banana ice-cream in the ice-cream maker (daughter and me).
3/8 activities listed
#FiveYearsOn #Day147
On Friday 14th August 2020 we:
Built Lego Friends Bake-off (daughter and me),
Had an Indian takeaway (all four of us),
Was writing something while on the settee (son - I don’t know what it was!).
3/14 activities listed.
#FiveYearsOn #Day146
Thursday 13th August 2010 included:
Park, with friends, including the climbing (me and both children),
Monopoly pieces tournament (son),
Transferred information into new diary (daughter).
3/11 activities listed
#FiveYearsOn #Day145
