Locked down in Hornchurch

Locked down in Hornchurch for 12 weeks with our lovely family,what did we do?

 We lived by the children's routine,getting up early and napping early afternoon.Scruffbag cooked amazing meals and baked biscuits, cakes and pies with Freya, two and a half.

We went out once a day with the children often to the country park at the end of the road. We built dams in the stream. We made harbours and raced paper boats. We climbed trees.We picked flowers. We played poo sticks and dropped stones.

The weather was great so we went in the paddling pool and the hot tub. We sowed a wildflower garden. We did crafts. We found rabbit poo and molehills.One day we found a dead mole so we talked about "dead".

We had barbecues. We found a company that delivered cocktails so we drank cocktails.

We read books. I knitted jumpers and cardigans for the children.

We watched Millie grow from a bottle fed baby who couldn't be left alone when sitting into an almost walker who could stand  alone, loved nothing more than to be on her feet and drank from a cup and ate anything put in front of her with relish.

When restrictions lessened a little, we drove further afield and explored new areas of the Essex countryside.

Finally we heard were allowed to fly to Portugal. We were sad to leave but glad to go at the same time. We bought goodbye gifts for the girls.

Freya looked lovely in her Moana outfit. 

We said goodbye to Jo, Jack and Andy in their garden and met Lauren in the park to say farewell

And off we went to the deserted airport all masked up and off to Porto and Erica.