Another change...

Right now I feel cheated. I feel like I played by the rules and didn’t make a fuss only for the goal posts to be moved. Yesterday we were told the girls would not be returning to school this term and homeschooling will continue. This is after it had been suggested for the last couple of weeks that we would be returning to school on the 11 May!  Having a date for this to end made it bearable except now it doesn’t end. I was looking forward to going back to Monaco just to get some kind of normality back into our lives. Husband would go to work, girls would be at school and I would shape a new kind of routine around the limitations of the virus.

Despite the lack of school we will return to Monaco just to have a stricter structure on school days. At the house it is too tempting to leave the books and enjoy all the other things the house has to offer. This is what got us through the lockdown when we couldn’t go out but it cannot become our daily life. This is our weekend and holiday home we have nicer food here, we sleep in, we try and relax, we have a treat cupboard and a lot of wine! I don’t want our little haven to become associated with endless school work! There are less distractions in Monaco and less cleaning too! Plus everyone has lower expectations when it comes to the meals produced in our tiny Monaco kitchen!  It means a cheese and tomato sandwich becomes a perfectly acceptable lunch instead of our the range of dishes we seem to be producing twice a day!

I have no idea how the next few weeks will go but I have accepted the latest situation and am really trying to just go with the flow instead of being resistant or angry about it. It is what it is. I am hoping the school will come up with better ways of teaching and producing school work as the girls’ studies are definitely suffering. Doing an exercise on a subject/topic supervised by me is no way the same as a whole lesson being dedicated to explaining a topic by a teacher trained to teach said topic!

We will get on with it all, we will adapt and be flexible to the new normal. I will smile and try and be positive. I will get on with the school work. I will do what I need to do and feel blessed that we are all safe and healthy but deep down in the pit of my stomach I wonder what the future really holds for all of us because I don’t think our comfortable lives will ever be the same again.