If you have read my blog series on ‘Moves and Miracles’, then you’ll know that we had to move out of our home and into a friends flat during the full covid lockdown in 2020. This resulted in lots of stories that are often recounted around our dinner table. Everyone has covid stories and so I thought I would put all ours, in just one blog post! We don’t want to dwell on that season anymore than necessary!

Some of these stories result from six of us living in a two bed flat and only able to leave once a day! Initially we had all four kids in one bedroom, it didn’t take long for us to see this was not going to work! Tom then moved into the living room, sleeping on our mattresses, that were acting as a sofa!

The night Tom moved out of the shared bedroom, he thought it would be fun to set an alarm on Millie’s Alexa at 1am! That night, bedtime was a little fraught as Abbie was snoring and so when Millie went to bed, she stopped on her way to slap Abbie in the face and tell her to ‘shut up’! You’d think this might signal to Tom that perhaps his ‘joke’ might not be quite the right timing?! But more likely, he’d forgotten he’d done it!

Anyway, Sean and I woke up to the alarm going off at 1am. We spent a while blearily trying to work out where it was coming from, finally figuring it out and turning it off. It didn’t end there though! For extra fun, Tom had set the alarm to go off every hour for the rest of the night! Needless to say by monring, none of us were Tom’s biggest fans! Although we all laugh about it now!

The flat we lived in, was a relatively easy walk from the beach. So one morning, I decided to take the kids for a swim in the sea as our ‘daily exercise’. We had a lovely time on the unusually empty beach. When we got back Sean was sitting in the hallway outside the flat with his laptop because he had locked himself out after going to meet someone. He was in a meeting so we couldn’t chat but opened the door and went in, leaving it open for him to come in when he was ready.

I went into our bedroom and proceeded to get out of my swimming costume and dressed for ‘home school’. It’s as I’m totally naked that Sean walks in and past me with his laptop held in front of him, still chatting to everyone in his meeting. At which point, I scream and throw myself into the wardrobe! Everyone in the meeting claim they didn’t see anything but still the mortification is real!

When we were finally allowed to have people over for dinner we obviously did! We had a lovely family that we know really well come over. As we all sat down to eat, Leo turns his head to the side and sneezes all over our friend’s plate of food!

We moved into our new home on the 31st July and life suddenly became much easier and so none of us really remember any stories, except the relief of having a bit of space!