Your constants

For nearly two months it’s just been the three of us in our own we bubble. You, your father and I.⠀Although the days were all very much the same, there was the comfort of familiarity in uncertain times. ⠀Other than connections through the screen, our attention was rarely diverted nor our time shared with anyone else but each other. ⠀We have been to each other what we have needed in these unprecedented times, the constants. ⠀

Naturally it has become our new normal, our routine, our life and although the time has finally come to reopen our doors, it feels somewhat unusual. There needs to be a readjustment, a resettling period, a progression back into the real world, a world which is still full of uncertainly and a new unfamiliarity.⠀

As we start our readjustment, there will be the speed bumps for all of us, but particularly for you little one. The faces that you have seen before will seem new again.⠀
The bedrooms you have stayed in before will seem unfamiliar.⠀
The houses that you have played in before will smell different.⠀
That’s what happens with change. ⠀

Sometimes it will be hard so routines will disrupted and our normal rules softened.⠀
When we are at a grandma’s and you are scared by the old surroundings which feel so new, I will cuddle you to sleep instead of practising sleep training like we have been doing for the last few weeks. ⠀
When we are in the supermarket and you cling to me rather than sit in the trolley, I will embrace you rather than try and encourage your independence.
When we see old friends again and who you no longer recognise, I will hold you for as long as you need, rather than pass you straight over. ⠀

This is what you need right now. ⠀
We are your constants, your familiarity, your security, even when everything else has changed. ⠀