Not sure what this second lockdown is doing to my daughters social skills (or mine) or how they are going to react to granny when they actually see her in person!
Category Archives: Diary of a Housewife
Mood
The five year old was on form this morning..
Trying to concentrate but..
At the moment I have no idea how long I have before one of us gets sick, someone in our bubble gets sick and we have to quarantine, or Belgium goes into full on lockdown mode again and we have no more help with childcare.
Airpods
Also airpods always remind me of this article https://www.vice.com/en/article/neaz3d/airpods-are-a-tragedy so its a doubly annoying situation.
Wear a mask
My hypochondria anxiety levels have been going through the roof over the past 6 months as presumably so have everybody’s. I’m feeling better right now, but during April/May I felt quite breathless a lot of the time – no idea if I had a really mild case of Covid or if it was all inContinue reading “Wear a mask”
First cartoon of the year!
The baby has started at creche 3 days a week and so I have some time to start drawing again. Our four year old is somewhat melodramatic in the mornings…
Ink paintings
As part of my cartoon course I’ve been experimenting with using ink and a paint brush instead of the usual pen and ink +watercolours. The colours are super vivid which I really like and I have to be a bit looser with my style because I have less control of the paint brush.
Flying Less
I still don’t talk about this decision that we have made to not fly very much as it’s just too awkward.
Nights out
Sometimes I get a bit down that all I seem to talk about with my mum friends is our kids when we should use our free time to talk about something else, but then I remember all the work nights out I’ve ever been on that always degenerate into talk about work. And it beatsContinue reading “Nights out”
Third trimester blues
I’m 34 weeks pregnant and it’s uncomfortable to sit and uncomfortable to stand and I can’t sleep properly.. SIGH.
