A Winter's Tale

Life between lockdowns

After weeks and weeks of being stuck inside, not going out anywhere very far or seeing anyone else, we finally went to level 2. Not the exciting level 2 like in one of Mum's Playstation games, but still great news anyway. Lockdown was lifted and things could return to normal - I went back to school, William went back to daycare, Mum and Dad... well, they actually stayed working at home.

It also meant we could get out and about properly again... sort of. Even if coronavirus was gone from New Zealand, other countries still had it, which meant no overseas holiday this year. First we were going to Fiji, then Australia, then maybe Fiji again, and now just somewhere in New Zealand. As long as coronavirus stays away.

We couldn't have a big party for William's 4th birthday like other years, but that didn't stop him getting a yummy chocolate Paw Patrol cake, courtesy of Mum.

The middle of the year is birthday season in our house, and my 7th birthday was just a month later. We should have said to people, "Lego to the party!" because I got lots of cool Lego to build. Me and William spent a lot of time making things out of Dad's old Lego during lockdown, so I'm looking forward to adding these new ones to my collection. Hope I have space for them.

Speaking of space, that was also the theme for my awesome cake with all the planets going around the Sun. One night during lockdown we saw the International Space Station flying past super-fast up in the sky, so that was where I got the idea from.

One of the worst things about lockdown was not being able to go out and see people, so as a bit of a celebration for us all getting through lockdown (and not getting coronavirus!), Grandma organized a mid-winter lunch. We had it in this cool old building near Grandma and Grandad's house, with Jake and Ben and everyone else.

It was one of my favourite types of lunch - heaps and heaps of food. So much food that we had to take some home with us afterwards for a second lunch, for dinner!

It was so nice to have everything back to normal. I had my room back again, I was enjoying being back at school and we were planning a family holiday down to the snow. Little did we know that another unexpected lockdown was coming on the horizon...