Me & The Lockdown

Hi All,

I am going to share a little something about my experience in the lockdown period with my beautiful family. As we all know that the last few months have been tragic and upsetting due to the COVID – 19 pandemic. May God enable the world to recover and give strength to those who have lost loved ones to this virus.

So, it’s been around three months since lockdown started.

First week kids were relaxed chilled and enjoying it as a holiday. But, then it was getting so boring, tedious. Then we decided to get some organisation in our lives and made a timetable for the kids which gave us a new agenda.

The same day, our dining converted into a study hall just to give the kids feeling of being in a classroom.  I was suddenly promoted to a school head teacher (also maths teacher and dinner lady 😀) and my husband got a job in homeschooling as an English teacher and P.E teacher (also, maintenance 😀).

All of us including the children enjoyed the new timetable and made most of it (did a little bit too much academic work 😀) but after a month went by the kids started losing interest in following the timetable as it got repetitive.

Then we thought instead of doing academic stuff let’s do some extracurricular activity. So, here we became vocational teachers (no doubt we have so many hidden skills which we only discovered due to the lockdown).

Some of the new skills that the kids picked up: -

Present to us their research via PowerPoint
Vlogging on YouTube
Art & Photography
Sports
Cooking

During this period we were lucky to go through the month of Ramadan (fasting), where the children enjoyed the day to day routine especially the congregational prayer & Iftari (delicious evening meal for breaking the fast 🤭).

We took full advantage of video calling and connected with all of our family from all across the world during the lockdown.

This period has given us the opportunity to appreciate the little things in life, which we tend to forget about or ignore in our usual daily routine.