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What did life look like for you two years ago?

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Promisemeyouwontfollowme · 03/03/2022 11:47

I was wondering and if I’m honest to my shame really hoping they’d close the schools (in a very difficult personal situation.) Listened to the news a lot. Life was just starting to change.

How about you?

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onwardsandupwards22 · 03/03/2022 16:26

Really sorry to alll those who have lost loved ones or have suffered with health issues Thanks

I was at the end of my tether and coming to the end of my mat leave having had zero time away from my high needs medically unwell baby. I was so looking forward to settling him into nursery and returning to work. When the nursery told me Lockdown was imminent and there was no point settling him in I felt like someone had sucked all the air out of my body. I couldn't breathe. But somehow, I returned to work wfh and between my husband and I we managed to get through a really difficult stretch of working with no childcare. I was shielding and never left the house/ garden for months which was incredibly tough

LadyTwinkle · 03/03/2022 16:26

My mum had recently passed away and I was three weeks away from giving birth to my first child.

SnowFoxWinterFox · 03/03/2022 16:26

Gosh. I had just been promoted in a job I hated in a workplace I hated.

I was slightly worried but not too much, because one of my Dcs is very clinically vulnerable.

I was hoping so much we woulkd be wfh for 3 weeks as it would give me a break from a tough early morning commute and I thought I would be able to keep on top of the housework between meetings. Hmm

I was worried about not seeing my parents for a bit- they live abroad and we had a cunard cruise plan at the end of March. I was worried about how they would feel if we skyped them from the cruise. ! In the end my workplace furloughed all our support staff but expected income and productivity to rise. They drove those of us remaining into breakdowns.

2 years on. I have just in the past 3 months quit my toxic job. Gladly and happily. My elder DS became extremely ill (not with covid, but with another medical issue we knew nothing about at the time). I am no closer from seeing my parents as they are now chronically ill and cannot travel.

Useranon1 · 03/03/2022 16:29

Just starting a (very regrettable) affair with my boss, starting a new job after 10 years in the same place, and moving house. Who knew that would be stable in comparison to next few months.

Postdatedpandemic · 03/03/2022 16:31

I had Covid, I was really sick.

LadyTwinkle · 03/03/2022 16:31

Also my partner started working from home and he's still currently working from home. (obviously I'm very grateful that despite that he didn't lose his job or have his income effected by lockdown as our first child was born during the first week of lockdown.)

Gingernaut · 03/03/2022 16:41

Me and my boss looking at each other, wondering "WTAF is going on??" as he had to work out how clinically vulnerable I was to serious illness or death by Covid-19.

An 8 page form, with advice and options and him worrying if he was going to have enough staff at the end of it.

PissedOffNeighbour22 · 03/03/2022 16:47

My baby was about to end up back in hospital a few weeks after birth. The nurses were laughing about Covid being bullshit and how all the people worried about catching just a cold were stupid.

I had an awful neighbour who just got worse and worse through lockdown. We were having issues selling my DP's house too and everything seemed never-ending and total shit.

2yrs later and I have another newborn and everything seems never-ending and shit Grin.

Chasingsquirrels · 03/03/2022 16:48

I was in the Caribbean, ignoring the looming pandemic.
This year we went a bit earlier and came back a couple of weeks ago.

CharSiu · 03/03/2022 16:51

I was a bit scared to go out because Chinese people were being abused in the street. My friend and I in Canada are not hysterical types but looking at historical incidences of pandemics in the past I knew it would be at least 2 years. We kept our opinion to ourselves as did not want to be accused of scaremongering.

I then got covid pretty early on and was very unwell. We had three lots of friends drop food off for us over the next 14 days.

Hen2018 · 03/03/2022 16:53

I think my youngest had missed about 18 months of education at that point (shitty SEND services locally, nothing to do with Covid). He would miss another year before I took them to a tribunal...

My other child was working abroad and seemed oblivious to how things were going. I asked him if he could bring a loo roll back with him! He and his colleagues loaded a car and got on one of the last ferries. They thought they’d be in the UK for a few weeks so only brought a few changes of clothes. He still hasn’t received all his stuff. He was furloughed then made redundant.

I was just starting a work project and thinking I could just possibly go freelance and make a living from that sort of work. Then all those establishments closed!

BarbiesWorld · 03/03/2022 16:54

I was on my knees with a newborn, 4 year-old and a useless husband who I'd literally just asked to leave...

2 years on and he's a useless STBXH and I'm 2 stone lighter and significantly happier.

Podgedodge · 03/03/2022 16:56

My DH was alive and I didn’t have cancer.

Myownpapillon · 03/03/2022 16:56

I was 4wks post embryo transfer and had got a BFP, it was the first time I'd felt genuinely happy in about a decade. That week I was in a happy bubble where something had seemed to have gone my way. It didn't last long as I had a miscarriage that started a week later and subsequently discovered that I'm too infertile for an IVF pregnancy to be sustained so there was no point in trying again.

DinosaurOfFire · 03/03/2022 16:58

I had a meeting with the kids school because my school-refusing, anxious, autistic 4 year old who wasn't even legal school age had such low attendance... Ironic really!

Riseholme · 03/03/2022 17:01

I was getting ready to go to dd's hen do. Which we did and was great.
The wedding got cancelled and eventually instead of 100 guests in summer we got 15, no food and no drink in winter.
Freezing cold.
But dd looked gorgeous and was happy. X
And we're all still here which is the main thing.

Justanotherobserver · 03/03/2022 17:13

I had covid early on and felt crap, but not too bad. After that things were amazing. We had clear skies and the roads emptied. My main garden clients asked me to grow as many vegetables as would fit into their huge vegetable garden and I spent a good while planning a succession of fresh produce for the kitchen, getting hold of seeds and starting them off. A lot of people I work for were staying at home and my main thing at that time was making everyone's gardens look as lovely as I possibly could so they could enjoy them over lock down. It was a time of pulling together all I'd learned in previous years and putting it all into action in one go. I worked very hard, all the gardens were beautiful and everything flourished, it was like a dream.

RoseMartha · 03/03/2022 17:16

My house was for sale. I knew the Dd's and I would have to move to a flat.

Not really thinking at that point schools would shut etc.

Choppingonions · 03/03/2022 17:19

I remember telling my DH he'd have to work from home soon and he was incredulous. Said no one would accept it and he'd look ridiculous. Two weeks later everyone was.

The loss of childcare. Oh the sudden loss of childcare.

Working on Zoom with what sounded like a fighter jet colliding with the door.

Bigfishlittlepuddle · 03/03/2022 17:20

Flowers @TimBoothseyes

missingeu · 03/03/2022 17:24

On my old ward, not knowing what was happneing. Trying to reassure our patients. At the time alot of our patients were aggressive.

We had no ppe, I then caught covid from a patient and was very ill for 2 weeks.
Came back to work and our ward had been turned red: doff/don, PPE, scared patients, no visitors and scary observations that were different from the norm. I did alot of hand pinching so I wouldn't cry in front off patients, held a lot a hands and cried in the shower at home.

Just writing this has made me cry.

missingeu · 03/03/2022 17:27

@Podgedodge

My DH was alive and I didn’t have cancer.
I'm so sorry, sending you hugs.
Fl0w3ry · 03/03/2022 17:32

I was in hospital not related to covid and the nurses were laughing at the hysteria that was starting to build in the media around covid. They all insisted that they believed they had covid-19 before the world had been made aware of it and said it was just a cough and they were mocking people stocking up on toilet rolls. They said they weren’t worried and it was a fuss about nothing and that it would amount to nothing. They laughed so much about it. I couldn’t help but think about how the nurses felt about their attitude back then once the pandemic was in full swing. They really weren’t prepared for what they were about to face.

Harridan1981 · 03/03/2022 17:41

Working in a school, watching the numbers and waiting. School very quiet, very odd feeling of suspense, horrible.

Had been watching it progress for months.

Watching my mum's slow descent into extreme anxiety, desperately chasing medical help for her to no avail, before she ended up suicidal on a psych ward. We are on the IoW, we had next to no covid here at the time, but still.cpuldnt see a doc for love nor money.

SarahAndQuack · 03/03/2022 18:29

A bit over two years ago I was overjoyed, because I'd been stuck at home (literally; I lived in a hamlet with very few buses and DP needed the car during the week) with a baby/toddler, frantically trying to work from home while looking after her.

And my life was going to change!

I was going to go out and work in an office! With colleagues!

I wasn't going to have to work from home while doing childcare!

I was going to be able to leave the house and go places!

Oh, how I laughed at myself later ... Hmm

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