Phase one completed and bring on the haircuts!

Throughout this torrid year Anna has been awesome and has been cutting my hair with clippers grabbed for free in lockdown one. As we move towards the end of this current lockdown, the poor girl is in desperate need to a haircut of her own, having gone a bit seventies on us in recent months 😆 I believe she is booked in around April 10th and I think it could be quite a savage cut. Amy and Lucy have barely had a cut for a year and both their hair is almost mid back! I am grateful for my twelve year old barber and the help she had given me and kept me looking smart and good in the pandemic. It's like the old principle of always put new undies on to go to the doctors! In my case, got to look smart for pandemic working in a care home. I am truly pleased that restrictions are easing and the girls can have some friends visit next week in the garden. All I want now are two things - Amy vaccination and for the girls lives to start going back to normal and give them their childhood back. In the meantime, everyone will have to settle for a spruce up and a haircut! 

Can't believe we are talking about college!

On the eve of Lucy returning to school, we are having conversations that seem to have crept up on me with the years passing by way too quickly. Worried about the lost time due to the pandemic in the initial work in her GCSE's, Lucy is already talking about college and the future. Adamant about where she wants to go, just the small matter of subjects and what course that she needs to decide! Lucy always plans ahead, focuses on the future and is very clear minded about decisions. I'm still finding this discussion quite a shock if honest and I wasn't prepared as she brought it up whilst we played cards. I'm pleased about her determined focus to go to college and do some kind of qualifications though. It's been a strange journey for her, having initially struggled with the remote learning the last year has brought. Now she has finally settled into it and got to grips with it, now she's going back to the classroom!! She'll love the structure once again and contact with friends; just remember Lucy try not to let a whole years worth of talking too much in class just spill out and keep that hyperactive fast talking enthusiasm at bay, coming up for breath once in a while! You know what I'm talking about! 😆