Blossom

There are signs of spring all around. I have a two week break from work and the weather is lovely...and we have to stay at home, allowed out only once a day for exercise. There is too much time and too little to do.

At Home Portraits

Like many, the world over, we in the UK are now in the midst of stay-at-home-measures in an attempt to slow the spread of covid-19. A few weeks ago we were hearing about the deaths in Wuhan and we appeared far removed. Now, we are asked to stay home, work from home, leave the house only for necessities or as a key worker...although currently we are allowed to walk locally or exercise once a day. Many older people and those with underlying health conditions cannot even do that and have been told to self-isolate for at lease 12 weeks, although it will likely be for much longer. A few months ago none of us could have envisioned how much life would change.

Extra time at home has meant many things; a different way of doing school or work, bouts of boredom, spurts of creativity, an increase in reaching out to others by way of technology as our connecting in person has been increasingly restricted.

Our girls have been experimenting. Our youngest asked our middle to cut her hair (big gulp)...and actually, thankfully, it did not turn out awful. Then they took it a step further and begged for hair dye, which daddy dutifully found on one of his grocery trips.

I talked them into letting me take a few photos, to document the outcome. It's rare to get more than snapshots these days so I just had to do a bit of editing with all this extra time on my hands and then of course, share. These girls are beautiful, inside and out and growing up far too quickly. I cherish this bit of extra time together, and as a homebody have not had as hard a time as I'm sure most extroverts have.