What were you doing 2 years ago today?

RosieLemonade · 2021-12-14T14:53:03+00:00

I was in London seeing a musical aftet dinner and then having a few drinks. We live quite far from London so though we went a few times a year it was always exciting and a big deal! One of my friends I was with has severe OCD and it seems unlikely we will ever have a trip like that again.

TuesdayRuby · 14/12/2021 14:54

Feeling very pregnant, but waddling around enjoying the festivities. I remember going to a carol service at our local church then having drinks afterwards in the packed pub. Everyone full of Christmas cheer!

Ceebeegee · 14/12/2021 14:57

I went to a big, crowded, but enjoyable Christmas Light show at a country house. Everyone was bustling along looking at the lights, drinking mulled wine or hot chocolate. Probably looking at it with rose tinted glasses but it was lovely.

PinkWaferBiscuit · 14/12/2021 14:58

Snuggling my 2 day old and looking forward to getting out and enjoying my maternity leave.

2 years later I have a toddler who thinks it's normal for people to wear masks and role plays sanitising his hands whilst I try not to think back on how excited I was to show off my new little person and for all the adventures we would have.

DaphneduM · 14/12/2021 14:59

I was buying new Christmas decorations, and really excited about our first Christmas in our new home, and our grandson's first Christmas.

itwasntaparty · 14/12/2021 14:59

Visiting Father Christmas at the local steam railway. Didn't realise at the time it would be the last one we did - last year there weren't any to visit and this year dts are too old and didn't want to go 😭

onemouseplace · 14/12/2021 15:01

About an hour away from landing in New Zealand, about to have a brilliant 3 week holiday. I can't actually believe how much has changed since then (not just covid related as well).

RubyFakeLips · 14/12/2021 15:10

Weirdly my phone reminded me earlier exactly what I did 2 years ago today and it's a day I remember. Took DS to football training. Went to Christmas lunch and film screening at lovely London hotel with old uni friends. Did some Christmas shopping and bought what has become my favourite mug from Liberty, battled home with an oversized Panettone.

Then went to Roka with my then best friend who I've since fallen out with as she thinks Covid is a conspiracy to cull the population and is aggressively anti-vaxx. Makes me want to cry! Depressing.

MouseholeCat · 14/12/2021 15:12

I was in Morocco doing ecology fieldwork and came down with severe food poisoning. Would not repeat that experience!

MouseholeCat · 14/12/2021 15:13

Ugh wait... my baby brain read this as 10 years ago!! Two years ago we were completing on our first house.

SloeFox · 14/12/2021 15:13

I was working in a job I hated.

I was recently home from seeing my family abroad - not knowing that it would be the last time for who knows how long.

My Dcs were okay.

Now I have quite my job (just months before a merger and redunandancies were announced- dammit!). i am a joyful SAHM. I am hoping for a fighting chance to see my family abroad in 2023.

dropitlikeitsloth · 14/12/2021 15:14

Coming back from New York 😭😭😭

PinkPlantCase · 14/12/2021 15:18

I was working stupid hours and resenting all the happy people in bars when I finally left the office to head home.

Now I’m snuggling my 6 month old to sleep 💕 it isn’t all bad.

MelonTits · 14/12/2021 15:20

Waddling around heavily pregnant but still going to Xmas parties and managing the gym a couple of times a week, preparing for a busy Xmas at work and then maternity leave in January. It was lovely, I had loads of fun despite the tiredness and discomfort.

mistermagpie · 14/12/2021 15:21

My daughter was three weeks old so I had a snuggly day with her, while my DH took our older children to the panto with a big group of friends and their kids, it was great.

That daughter is now two and said the word mask before she said her brothers names.

Thegreencup · 14/12/2021 15:21

@RubyFakeLips mine did the same. And it was a weekend I remembered well too.

My terminally ill DSIS was in hospital. I'd spent all night asleep on her sofa minding DN while he husband was with her in hospital. Then I spent the afternoon in hospital with her while BIL slept. I took DN home with me and he stayed over. I remember the Monday morning because I had to drive DN 30 miles up the motorway in rush hour traffic to school and get back for DS2 nativity play at 10.30. There was an accident on the motorway on the way back and I made it to the nativity by the skin of my teeth.

But most of all I remember sitting there in the traffic jam on the M56 in floods of tears at how shit everything was. Little did I know what 2020 had in store.

mistermagpie · 14/12/2021 15:21

@PinkWaferBiscuit

Snuggling my 2 day old and looking forward to getting out and enjoying my maternity leave.

2 years later I have a toddler who thinks it's normal for people to wear masks and role plays sanitising his hands whilst I try not to think back on how excited I was to show off my new little person and for all the adventures we would have.

Yep, I totally get it.

bearlyactive · 14/12/2021 15:22

I worked the morning, then was in London seeing a pantomime. It was pissing rain as we came out and then there were train problems, we didn't get back home until the wee hours!

MelonTits · 14/12/2021 15:23

@PinkWaferBiscuit

Snuggling my 2 day old and looking forward to getting out and enjoying my maternity leave.

2 years later I have a toddler who thinks it's normal for people to wear masks and role plays sanitising his hands whilst I try not to think back on how excited I was to show off my new little person and for all the adventures we would have.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 14/12/2021 15:23

We were also on a Santa train. But we also went last year and this year too. They completely redesigned how it worked to make it possible.

trappedsincesundaymorn · 14/12/2021 15:24

Chatting to my parents about DD coming home for Christmas (the 1st time she had since 2017 due to her work schedule), and them being excited about it. None of us aware that it would be the last one we would ever have with them. By Christmas 2020 both mum and dad were dead.

Marmite27 · 14/12/2021 15:25

My mum was staying, kids swimming lessons in the morning, kids Christmas party in the afternoon.

thatsallineed · 14/12/2021 15:26

I was looking forward to meeting my two new great-nephews.

Haven't met either of them yet.

PinkWaferBiscuit · 14/12/2021 15:27

Yep, I totally get it.

So glad others understand. I honestly think anyone who believes small children won't be affected because they were too little to properly understand is taking absolutely shit. Almost the whole of my child's life has been moulded around the pandemic and sometimes it worries me greatly that he knows and understands no different.

hivemindneeded · 14/12/2021 15:31

I was taking DS1 to an interview at Oxford exactly two years ago. Apart form that, according to the diary I seem to have mainly been working. A few Christmas drinks with mates and getting house ready for relatives arriving. Much like this year.

oneglassandpuzzled · 14/12/2021 15:33

Sorting out my dad ‘s probate. I feel as if I’ve been living a muted life for two years, with occasional splashes of colour.