Early birds out and about - that was us adults this morning.
Night owls - there are two of them roosting in my house. My teenage children are at the age where their circadian rhythm has shifted and their best ideas and enthusiasm come late at night, then they snooze away through the morning. Even though their technology curfew is 9:00pm, they still are alert and awake until all hours. It all makes sense from an evolutionary perspective - they would have been the ones tending the fire and keeping the wild animals at bay while my husband and I would have had the chance to catch up on some well-deserved zzzz's.
And then we adults would wake up early to take our sentinel shift.
Only this morning, instead of keeping watch while the teenagers slept, my husband and I went down to the beach for a date (dates are much harder to come by in lockdown, you know).
Oliver brought his camera along to capture the sunrise and the glow at our little local beach. I brought the baby of our family, our doggy, otherwise known as our golden child (she's a golden retriever).
I'm remembering the days when my children were tiny and they were the earliest of early birds while simultaneously being night owls. Sleep was a scarce commodity then. In those times I had to take a deep breath and remember that 'this too shall pass.' And it did.
Just like these days of being in lockdown shall pass. Today is our first day of being at Level 3 Alert. This too shall pass.
In the mean time, what a fabulous way to start the day. Sometimes I forget the magic of getting out into nature early in the morning. Out there walking on the beach this morning I kept thinking to myself, "now THIS is living."
What are some of the ways you keep yourself sane in lockdown? How are you filling your own cup so you have resources available when it comes to parenting?
