(If you missed the original Christmas mouse hole post, read it here first.)
We checked on “our” mouse hole this week, and discovered a gift had been delivered to the mice.
Mouse Hole Update
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What a Week: Half Term, Halloween, Election Day, Bonfire Night, and Lockdown
As we anxiously await the results of the election in the Divided States of America, here’s what else has been going on for the Walks Between the Commons.
Last week was the half-term school break. We’d had flights and a place to stay booked in Italy, but obviously that was cancelled. So the challenge became: How can I give the girls a normal-ish fun half-term/Halloween/4th birthday in a pandemic?
We started by borrowing a car from a very generous friend for a couple days, so we could do some day trips out of the city.
I chose places that were all outdoors, and which claimed they were capping the numbers of visitors allowed in and had staggered entry times and all the other measures attractions are having to take now to make them seem safe.
Continue readingKeep Masked and Carry On
Well, the kids are back in school (hallelujah!) and life is taking on some form of return to normality, or what counts as normal in Autumn 2020.
There are many things we still can’t do, or shouldn’t do, or just don’t feel personally comfortable doing even though other people are; but then there are some things we can do again, with certain precautions, that we haven’t been able to do since mid-March. You follow?
Day 80: The End of Our Captivity, Sort of / Black Lives Matter
And on the 80th day (which was this past Tuesday), R went back to nursery school, effectively marking the end of this period of isolation for our family.
She was so excited. We had talked about how things would be different there, and she seemed fine with it, as long as she got to go back and see her friends and her teacher. Hearing my 3-year-old ask about seeing her best friend again, “Can I touch her?” was just heart-wrenching. Continue reading
A Fun Quarantine Project
My kids and I have often walked past this house on our road and wondered about this curious little hole next to the front door.
It’s not connected to a drain pipe or anything at all. Is it some sort of coal hole? The place the milkman left the milk bottles? A Floo Network portal to the Ministry of Magic, house-elf service entrance?
The girls and I decided a while back that it must be a very fancy mouse hole, for a very posh mouse.
So last week, we made a mouse and some decorations and moved him in. (Free pattern and instructions for a hand-sewn felt mouse found here.)
