Page 18 - Issue 3 Cornwall Hill

lIFE In lOckdOWn

and, day by day, our lives began to change. anymore as we could stay under our warm
Slowly, we had to start to avoid social covers with a warm cup of coffee and take
situations, not training at our local gym and the time to actually enjoy that said coffee.
not being able to go to the shops just to do Alex no longer had to wake up at 4am to
some window shopping. However, it wasn’t get ready for work and, for the first time, we
so bad for us because we were still running could have breakfast together.
on our ‘wedding bliss married life high’. As
from 26 March 2020, just over a month after We are extremely fortunate to still have
we celebrated our wedding day, we were our usual comforts . . . even though Alex
forced into a national lockdown. unfortunately has not been able to work as
much due to his being a personal trainer.
For me - Mrs Muller - this was a big change. However, he has been able to adapt by
I was not used to working from home, I using technology, which has also shown
wasn't used to seeing my husband, Alex, all how things could be done remotely.
day . . . every day, and to say that the first
week or so was easy peasy, would be a lie. Alex and I have also been very fortunate
I was completely out of my comfort zone, to have his family living only a few metres
even though I was safely at home with my away. We have had lunches together every
new hubby which made me question - how Sunday and have started doing game
could that be? But what I had to realise nights, which I highly recommend. Although
was that our lives had changed more than we were unable to go on our honeymoon,
We had already postponed our honeymoon simply being husband and wife! and our lives were turned upside down, we
because I, (the new Mrs Muller), had been have appreciated the extra time we have
appointed in a new position as a financial This uncertainty, thankfully, disappeared had together. We forgot how little time we
manager at the beginning of February. It when the reality sank in that this would be actually spent with our loved ones when
turned out to be another totally different our ‘new norm’ and we started to notice the daily routines of life got in the way.
situation than what I expected, thanks to the silver linings of our situation, such as COVID-19 allowed us to take a step back and
the temporary lockdown rules that were the luxury of not having to wake up and really appreciate the small things.
later implemented. rush to get onto the N1 to Joburg before
the traffic. The added bonus, being able Our COVID-19 honeymoon wasn’t so bad
Two weeks after the celebrations and to have a slower morning with my new after all, as we have been fortunate enough
the hall filled with people, the COVID-19 husband, became the new favourite part of to be together and get this little bit of extra
restrictions started being implemented my day. Colder mornings didn’t seem so bad time to spend with one another.

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