CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN: A MUM'S VIEW ON HOW TO COPE WEEK 5

Lockdown haircuts are the worst, I am so terrible at it, my boys look horrendous. I mean most people’s kids look the same to be fair and it’s not like we’re going anywhere, but I feel so mean doing it to them but it’s that or visibility. The five year old told me he ‘looked rubbish’ and is concerned about people seeing him on FaceTime.

I got some actual hair cutting scissors off of Amazon and I am still terrible plus I cut my own finger. I feel the kids are going to look like this for quite some time too. 

Like everyone we had new fencing after the pre pandemic apocalyptic storms, so we got some paint and turned it into a family effort. The boys enquired about using the black paint which was a flat no but instead they improvised with water and paintbrushes. I have never seen them have so much fun for so long. That was until they started to paint each other and all their clothes and then the already painted fence, that got a firm smack down from daddy. 

The one thing I’m really enjoying now is the close relationship that’s developing between our two youngest, don’t get me wrong we have our fair share of tantrums, strops and meltdowns, but the two year old spends a lot of time following the five year old about. So much so, that he has kind of become his evil sidekick. When the five year old is showing us a ‘magic trick', which normally involves us being told to turn away whilst he hides the object, the two year old likes to chime in with an ‘ooh where’s it gone?’ Then a ‘ta da!’ sort of like a rubbish Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee with a more appropriate age gap.

The five year old has got wise to this sidekick situation and is super pleased to have someone he can boss about for most of the day, he has also taught him to power slide. This is a key life skill that will come in super handy at every school disco but will make mummy despair at the sheer amount of trousers we will now get through. There’s a reason when there are no trouser hand me downs from age 3 onwards.

Find out more about our guest weekly blogger, Sara Witham owner of Evil Empire Marketing by visiting her website https://www.evilempire.co.uk.