New Decade

the year is 2020.

we now have a 10 year old, 8 year old and a 6 year old.

we are in quakers hill ward and living in the ponds.

jevan is working for a building company called BUILT

and I am working in admin at Riverbank Public School.

we are currently living through a global pandemic,

there is virus called Coronavirus (COVID-19) that has spread throughout all the world.

it has caused the world to close not only international borders but state borders as well,

we are in social isolation which means not going out unless it's classed as "essential" so basically if you don't need it to survive it can wait.

when out you have to be 1.5m apart from other people,

you need to hand sanitise on a regular basis,

trying to find toilet paper, pasta, hand sanitiser, or even soap is ridiculously hard.

parks, reserves, national parks and beaches are all closed.

you can get fined for driving to far away from your residing suburb.

church is cancelled,

saturday sport is cancelled for the moment,

NBA, NRL and basically any sport is cancelled

we are doing online schooling (most hardest thing I've ever had to do)

and if you don't have to go into the office you work from home.

a have never ever lived through anything like this

and although we are missing some things

(like sending the boys to school)

there has been so much good to come out of this.

the amount of quality time we have spent together is amazing,

we go for bike rides daily and are finding so many great tracks around our area

and a bunch of hidden tracks that if you don't go riding you wouldn't know are there.

we have fires and roast marshmallows,

we have weekly movie nights,

jevan and I get to work out with each other,

i am cooking/baking more than I have ever done

and we have been able to go through the boys memory boxes and show them things we have kept.

which leads me to why I am blogging,

we showed the boys my blog books my mum gets printed every 2 years fo rummy birthday,

we realised while reading them how precious they are.

they are our families history.

those little moments that didn't seem like much are so important to us now.

Jevan told me I need to start blogging again because 

"when he's 80 and sitting in a nursing home, he can sit down and read all the adventures and memories we have made."

as our boys get older we are realising how special and 

precious those memories we have made are to us.

so here I am beginning my blogging journal again.