How did I plan out my work at home + kids schedule? I knew that while we would be stuck at home with ample opportunity to cook dinners, there might be nights where I don’t feel like cooking, for these I decided to precook some fun meals and freeze them - kinda like pre-ordered take away meals! Now this obviously would be age dependent but at the end of the day it's about what your child likes. ![]() The next couple of things I did was bookmark a ton of learning resources, like study ladder, go noodle and some other goodies that I thought he might like. I then took my time working out what I needed for work, I set up both my work laptop and personal computer to be able to do all the things I needed to keep me running. I stocked up on LEGO, we purged unwanted toys and donated them, we spring cleaned the house and prepared for a cleaner house so clutter wouldn't be an issue. What did I do in my “trial-run” of lockdown? BUT! We stayed home, responsibly, and decided to test run how this was going to work if we needed to lock down, and I am so grateful I did. My son, who is 7, got the snuffles, and by this point it was “socially unacceptable” to send him to school, usually I would have been fine to do that, a snuffle is what all kids pass around multiple times a year. I could see this was coming, New Zealand is a small country of only 4.7million people, tons of tourism. I thought I would prepare for isolation weeks in advance Now before we get started you can grab a free printable of my calendar here ![]() And Ill explain more as we go along, but know that this is an ever changing landscape we might not have been prepared for. ![]() Hi, Nicola here from My Inner Creative, as a single mom, and a passionate planner and as a working mom, I thought, “Yeah - I got this”.NO I DIDN’T! Well I do. It feels to me like the crazy version of “national lampoon's terrifying corona vacation”. Places around the world are going into lockdown. What an absolutely crazy time we are currently in.
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