"She said it might feel like we're all lost in the woods, but one day we'll all find our way out" - jesus, 46 seconds in and I've burst out crying already hahaha
The combination of Tom’s music and Stef’s videography is what puts the Michalak’s productions in a league of their own. Thank you, Stef, for making us smile and forget our worries for a few minutes during this trying time. Hoping everyone is doing well and staying safe. x
Started to tear up during the clapping portion as well. We didn’t have that here! Thanks so much for providing some light to this tough time. Stay healthy
Grayson’s parrot picture had me creased 😂😂 in all the madness in this world right now, I’m thankful that we have little dudes like Grayson who can bring a smile during such times 🥰 he is a little angel 👼 👼 ❤️❤️ xxx
Strange times indeed. I care for my 85 year old dad and I’m terrified when I go to get food that I will pick up the virus and be the instrument of my dads death. Stress levels increasing, but like Hannah, I find that not continually watching the news and social media is better. Keep the videos coming - always a pleasure to watch your creative mind at work. Stay safe guys
I feel the same! I care for my father, who's 96 and still living in his own home. I've already been stopped by the police while driving to his place to help him to bed. In total fear of a complete lockdown. Who will help him? Switching between feeling we'll be fine and complete panic. Stay safe everyone!
@@lizmacleod4334 you might have to stay with him, like my siblings are staying with our mum. She's 82 and a 2x cancer survivor. I don't stay there because I'm at risk myself (autoimmune and diabetes). I stay at home but I am driven there once a week to deal with her meds and correspondence.
Well done Stef, you got the tone of this perfectly. I can’t explain how much I needed this video after one week of quarantine! Thank you for always making something beautiful x
I actually cried so much at the footage where everyone started cheering on the streets, very heart warming. We haven't gone into lockdown in Aus...yet, I reckon they will make an announcement either tonight or the next though, we will see. It just makes everyone very unsure as no one is quite certain on the way they should act. Thankyou Grayson and Rufus for making me smile little mates, gray with your willy parrot and Rufus with your bear fighting stick :)
Kat Sunshine_92 I would have said we in Aus have been told to stay home for at least the past two weeks. Self isolation has been stressed but too many dickheads don’t cooperate, nor do they understand 2m distancing, and carry on like there isn’t a crisis.
Did you see the image of customs at Sydney airport the other day? People packed in like sardines! With ScoMo announcing last night we can't go to parks anymore and other measures my husband and I honestly reading it as we are officially in lockdown. I just wish the government would acknowledge it
Oh gosh. Graysons opening “I don’t know when I’ll see my best friends again” was a real trigger to my tears. This is the hardest part of all for me. My eldest daughter has abruptly left her Year 6 buddies behind. It’s awful!
I grew up during a civil war and whenever I would get anxious about the situation, my mum would say the exact same thing, we're all just a bit lost right now - we'll find our way back. Worked a treat ❤
THIS is why I’ve been watching you guys for so many years. Small moments making the big ones seems more manageable. Perfect ending to the video as well, love a good cry
After the all the news being thrown at your face 24/7, this felt like fresh breath of air.And I cannot emphasis enough how hard it hit me when you said " We all are in different boats but in the same ocean". Take care Steph and Hannah. Love from India.
I started watching your videos in my first year of studying nursing at university and it helped me homesickness. I’m now an ICU nurse and stuck far away from my family. I cried at the clapping in this video but also about how grateful I am that these videos have been an escape most Sundays for the last 4 years. Keep up the amazing work Stef ❤️
I have been in a long time follower of your family since the v beginning and rarely do I comment. This is definitely a weird time to live in and yes very scary and challenging. Thank you Stef for highlighting the fact that most people are going to be in different boats at what the pandemic has brought but we remain hopeful that this too shall pass. I am a nurse, may not be working with the NHS but we are trying our very best to help our community and win this battle. Can't stress enough the importance of hand hygiene, social distancing, no to hoarding TP or food and stay safe Michalaks!
This is the first thing that's made me feel better since this whole nightmare started. I am a student teacher in Belfast, my school has closed and I won't be going back to uni. Such a change of life for students, no friends, no nights out etc. I am now at home with my Mum feeling very claustrophobic. When you're an only child also it's so isolating, especially as my Mum works. Praying this whole thing ends. Keep making content, it's the only thing getting me through xx
It made me smile when you said we are all in different boats, we literally are as we live in a narrowboat. This week has been interesting to say the least. The Clap got the NHS made me emotional and at the marina where we live all the boats beeped their horns and flashed their lights. Thank you for sharing you week!
I saved watching this video until I needed to feel more positive and it was tonight! Thank you for the video guys! It helped a lot I might watch it again tomorrow 😊 It's so hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel & trying to home school 4 children (with a 1 Yr old) while my fiance works 14.5 hr shifts, thankfully only 3/4 days a week as a psychiatric nurse, stay sane, stop the kids fighting, keep us all healthy and not feel anxious is taking its toll x
Thank you so much for making this video! I'm in America on the front lines fighting this in the hospital with all the nurses and Drs. The end made me cry. I know we are headed to full lockdown here soon. Both my husband and I are essential employees and we have an 8 month old that can't be in school since they closed it on Friday. Thanks for cheering me up and helping me to face another week wearing a mask all day and not knowing when I'm being exposed to the virus. Stay safe out there!!
This was such an emotional video. I'm from Canada and it's great to see how this is impacting everyone around the world. I had recently said to my husband it is a mind blowing thought to think that 30 or 40 or 50 years from now our children will be reading about this in a textbook during a school lesson and here we are living in the moment, in it right now. It really shows that we are all one.
"you can only paint with the paints you have at your disposal" love that phrase! Hope you guys are keeping well...bumped into you a few years ago in Bath, still loving the videos!
Thank you for putting the progression of this whole situation and how maybe a lot of us have felt and have been feeling since the beginning into beautiful beautiful artwork. The things I felt but could not identify, I could identify them now.
We've just done over 3 weeks of lockdown here in Italy - with no end in sight! I'm enjoying it, I've just had my second child so all 4 of us are at home and spending time together. Of course I'm worried about the situation, I feel sad for the people who are sick and huge gratitude for the frontline workers but I'm trying to see the positive side to all of this. I love my family and having this time together is special. Loved your video!
Revisiting this after nearly 7 months made me shed a tear. Us frontliners are still out there day in & day out. I already forgot there was a time people paid us any attention & applauded at dusk.
Thanks for sharing, this was so sweet. Always love how your videos are so complex yet they just focus on all the smaller simpler things in life, they take me out of my own life for a moment and give such a sense of peace.
Watching from 3 weeks ahead of you in Italy. Hang in there, you do get used to it and will find that you have plenty to do every day. If you can get flour make pasta for lunch with the boys, we did that the other day. Take them on virtual day trips to Paris, Rome, etc.. After 20 days at home I still haven't had time to just sit and read for a few hours! Stay safe xx
Started watching you guys 6 years ago after I went off to college and was homesick and friendless. Feeling similar now amongst all of this, and you continue to be a comfort of me, and everyone in this community I think. Glad we all have each other right now!
I’m 27 and have 3 autoimmune diseases putting me at high risk. However I work at a supermarket and even though everything else is closed, I’m still required to work because there’s nothing in place to help pay my bills if I don’t. Every time i go to work I’m so anxious about ending up sick. I’m not religious but I’m hoping to make it through this. Sending love to everyone in the same boat.
I think this has become my new favourite video from you guys, loved how you added in the clips from everyone clapping and making noises!. Honestly made me start tearing up. Also loved the music throughout set the perfect mood
"I really miss Brexit" xD xD xD never have I ever laughed so hard! Stef, you've done it again: this video is a masterpiece. Sending love to you and your family.
3AM in Toronto can't sleep in self - isolation (living alone gives new meaning to the latter word ) then a glimmer of light .. you've uploaded. Stay well guys.
You make a very good point ...the timing of this for each of us is very relevant. Stuck alone in a bedsit with the meter running out must be grim compared to a family who all love each other under one roof
This was the perfect balance between escapism and reality... Which your videos always are. People saying they aren't going to talk about it feels a bit odd. I was at home healing from a C-section for a month before this, then the next day we had to isolate as the three kids had temperatures... Now lockdown. Being together in the house has significantly lost it's charm so this put me back in the frame of mind to get it back, thank you x
With such uncertain times I appreciate the way you still tell stories. Thanks for this video. From hysterics at your impatience with Joe Wicks to the tears of watching people clap for the nhs. Extreme emotions in the space of a few minutes. Both equally important to release. Stay safe everyone.
Beautiful and so touching, thank you guys for making such lovely art and sharing it with us all. Stay healthy. Stay safe. So much love and hope from Texas.
Hey guys, im just 2 days into my recovery from this evil virus, and I just watched this on my big tv whilst recovering in bed. Thank you. This WHOLE thing is a huge collective nightmare that everyone's having. Your videos help A LOT.
This is what I will show my grandchildren to explain this strange time. You have captured all the weird emotions surrounding this time perfectly. After watching all the announcements in real time, I guess in shock and disbelief, this was like seeing for them first time. The things we have heard, seen and now live are surreal but very real. We’ll have many stories to tell from this time, that’s for sure. You definitely didn’t get it wrong, fantastic job!
Each time I see a video that I think is your best work you come back with yet another to top it.How can you turn such difficult,challenging sad times into such a thing of beauty and make me smile,cry,tingle all over.You captured it perfectly in every aspect.Stay safe all of you!!xx
You guys have been putting a smile on my face since 2014. Thank you for everything you do, for us, but most importantly, the love you guys put into your family. 🧡
Can't believe that in Britain these measures are only now kicking in, here in Croatia we are in quarantine for 3 weeks now and we have less than 1000 cases. The quarantine started when we had abot 300 cases. Wish you all the best!
This was absolutely heartbreaking, heartwarming, perfectly beautiful. I probably spend a good amount of time crying too. You guys are so talented and I just love everything about you. Thank you for doing this! The future world will have a beautiful documentary of how it was. ❤️
❤️ overwhelming feelings of gratitude ❤️ I could relate to you when you were saying that you are in a more desirable situation in your life for this to occurs... so am I. And I am beyond grateful. That 8pm clapping made me all teary... thank you for stepping aside from the norm and sharing the good that has come from quarantine.. 💓
I’m not one to comment but finding out you were going to upload this week is the one thing that got me through this week. Your videos and your family are incredible and I’m just such a fan of your work! Thank you for sharing☺️
I'm usually a silent viewer, but I guess any type of connection these days is valuable. I write from Spain. We've been in strict quarantine for over 2 weeks now, and there are a few weeks left still. I am the daughter of a doctor. And I just wanted to say that it does get frustrating and it does become worrying, but we are going to get through this. And so will you. Hang on, and even if it gets worse, eventually it will get better.
The bit about the nhs is a heartwarming thing, but I think everyone in the nhs knows that after this all ends when they should be able to relax, everyone is going to come out of lockdown and do silly things and the demand on A&E, on the ambulance service is going to be much higher than it is right now. So if anyone reads this, remember to keep thinking about them when we all get out freedom again.
As the nation clapped their hands for the NHS that evening, my husband lost his mother to Covid19. She had been unwell for a while and we knew if she contracted this, she wouldn't survive it but none the less its awful. I've spent the past few weeks limiting myself to what I view online and protecting my mind from the fall out of it all and yet, now, we are in the thick of it and dealing with the worst case scenario. Planning a funeral in a world full of restrictions. Not being able to comfort a family with a hug, or sit in the same room together and share memories is so hard. Yes we have social media where we can connect. Yes we have phone. but its not the same. Nothing is the same x
Amazing to see you're still creating! This was so, so lovely - funny, endearing, informative, light hearted and just, needed. This is such an incredibly strange time that has felt surreal from day 1 (of hearing about the virus) so, any sense of noramlity is appreciated. Thanks Stef, Hannah, Grayson and Rufus. Thank you for offering (the world) a tasty serving of normality! Stay safe and keep well ❤
I think this is one of my favourite episodes from you guys ever. Also so cute when you were talking to Grayson in the car bc it reminded me of when you used to chat in the car when he was a tiny baby. I've been watching your vids for 6 years so I wish you the best. All the love ❤
I don't know how this was even better than I hoped it would be! It had the exact right amount of documentary style information mixed with home video nastalgia. Love you guys, forever !
you've given people the hope for a future like yours. i just had to pause the video (10.38) after you said you thought you were going to get it wrong. You haven't done, people want to escape the constant fear mongering of the media and this bright look at your family really really helps.
I'm trying to catch up on all of your videos.. I just watched this..WOW ...I'm from Australia and we pretty much got the same news as you at the same time..now in one state of Australia ( which happens to be where I live ) we've gone back into lockdown.. the first wave seems like years ago.. I love this video as I think ( hopefully 🤞) we'll look back and be gobsmacked by the way our lives changed so rapidly ..btw keep up the great content ♥️ stay safe 🤞
Very emotional and captured the rollercoaster of feelings really well - especially the guilt at sitting at home with all our comforts just being with each other - it will eventually drive us mad but right now it’s comforting xx
hey guys, watching your videos brightens my day, don't feel guilty for enjoying your family Stef, we have to get something good out of this and if we have it at home we are privileged, more than ever we have to enjoy the company we have . a hug from Barcelona, take care!
I really liked what you said about us all being different boats sailing on the same ocean. I lost my boyfriend to mental health at the start of February this year before everything with the virus began to kick off. It's a lot for all of us to cope with in different ways. I really enjoyed this video, thank you. I hope you all stay safe x
I hoped so much you would upload today! Really needed a Michalak video on a sunday! :) You made me laugh out loud but also cry about the clapping for the NHS... Also don't feel guilty about enjoying quarantine, I work as a psychologist and heard many people say the same. It is quite nice to not have the pressure to do a million things and function all day. Stay healthy Family Michalak!
This was amazing! Well done Stef! Hannah is everyone Mum and wife; everywhere. Sending love and strength! What a gift you have made for the boy’s when they’re grown up to watch these beautiful moments in the craziest of times! Bravo X
This video made me so happy, I look forward to your videos every week & during this shit storm will be even more excited. I am still working thankfully as my workplace is making the equipment for the covid-19 vaccine... but on weekends I live in a single bedroom apartment on my own with just a fridge and a kettle.... its very lonely even for just 2 days of the week. Thank you for being something in my life that is almost always a known, I know that on a sunday there will be a 20 minute video that helps me move on from the week just past and ready for the next. Keep smashing it and doing what you're doing.
I loved this so much 🧡 Don’t feel guilty, enjoy every little bit! And share! I love seeing you guys’ adventures, walks, the kids! Sending love and courage 💪🏼💪🏼 xxxx
Just an incredible piece of magic. Really enjoyed that during this weird time in world history. It actually calmed my nerves and made me teary eyed, laugh and all the other good emotions. Thank you. Happy Sunday!
It is indeed a weird, weird time to be alive! Thank you Hannah for stating it concisely. From the USA, visited the UK for the first time December 2019 and honestly your videos inspired us to visit such a lovely place. I hope you all stay safe and healthy.
I never comment even tho I’m here since Grayson was born. But I want to say - I love what you do and I love your vibe. And this video is what I needed. What we all needed I guess.. That’s true we’re sailing on the same ocean but in different boats. And I’m waving from my boat at yours with a big smile, feeling thankful. Stay safe folks x
I've been watching you guys since Grayson was a few months old but I don't think I've ever commented on a video. But concerning your dilemma Stef, I just want to say: i think I speak for everyone when I say you guys are an escape. We want the feel-good family stuff as much as we want the stressful, difficult stuff, because that's real! It's so great to see how successful you've become and the life you've been able to live through hard work and dedication, so just own it! Your true followers will support you no matter what xxxx
Another amazing video guys, and cried all over again at the clapping at the end. So emotional. Thank you for featuring my video. Take care and stay happy ♥️ zoey xx
Thanks for your story. Just what we needed instead of watching the news. One thing we miss is hugging our kids. We celebrated our daughter's birthday via Zoom. Life has changed as we knew it.
This was definitely the highlight of my day:) Especially the last scene was quite emotional. Lots of goosebumps and teary eyes. Loved it! We´re all in this together. Stay safe...Greetings from Munich, Germany:)
We're all here to see the picture that you're painting. With the paint u use, because we love it. So don't overthink it. Please keep showing your picture ♥
You've captured the feeling stupidly well. I was just talking to my boyfriend and saying how many people would've offed themselves if it had been storming AND quarantined.
PERFECTION, kudos for finding your tone of voice and uploading in this weird and strange time. Your video hit all the right spots as always. Great work. Stay sane and keep enjoying the time together.
This is one of, if not my favourite video from you guys. Thank you for just putting out the simple matter of fact that this too shall pass. Aside from the boring stuff about message and blah blah, this video is incredibly well shot, put together and well rounded in music, montage, emotion and technique. Great job! Can't wait to see more!
catching up with your videos and watching the build up and then when boris announced the lock down has given me mad goosebumps again. what a strange strange time. hope you're all well, soz i'm slow at watching vids but hey i've got time now lol x
Your boat, your paint, your perspective! 🙌🏼 Nailed it 👌🏽.... thanks for the positive perspective and putting your home time to good use ;) Back to weekly videos now??
Love how you have done this and got the balance so right. You have the right to enjoy it without the guilt. Yes not everyone has this opportunity but you have, that's where your lives are at. Stay safe xxx
"She said it might feel like we're all lost in the woods, but one day we'll all find our way out" - jesus, 46 seconds in and I've burst out crying already hahaha
The combination of Tom’s music and Stef’s videography is what puts the Michalak’s productions in a league of their own. Thank you, Stef, for making us smile and forget our worries for a few minutes during this trying time. Hoping everyone is doing well and staying safe. x
"We are all in different boats sailing on the same ocean"
"IM NOT HILARIOUS!" *violently points stick*
REM fading to “it’s quite peaceful isn’t it, the apocalypse?” was perfection.
Started to tear up during the clapping portion as well. We didn’t have that here! Thanks so much for providing some light to this tough time. Stay healthy
Grayson’s parrot picture had me creased 😂😂 in all the madness in this world right now, I’m thankful that we have little dudes like Grayson who can bring a smile during such times 🥰 he is a little angel 👼 👼 ❤️❤️ xxx
Strange times indeed. I care for my 85 year old dad and I’m terrified when I go to get food that I will pick up the virus and be the instrument of my dads death. Stress levels increasing, but like Hannah, I find that not continually watching the news and social media is better. Keep the videos coming - always a pleasure to watch your creative mind at work. Stay safe guys
I feel the same! I care for my father, who's 96 and still living in his own home. I've already been stopped by the police while driving to his place to help him to bed. In total fear of a complete lockdown. Who will help him? Switching between feeling we'll be fine and complete panic. Stay safe everyone!
@@lizmacleod4334 you might have to stay with him, like my siblings are staying with our mum. She's 82 and a 2x cancer survivor. I don't stay there because I'm at risk myself (autoimmune and diabetes). I stay at home but I am driven there once a week to deal with her meds and correspondence.
Liz MacLeod it’s easier for me because I live with my Dad. Such a worry for you I’m sure xx
Well done Stef, you got the tone of this perfectly. I can’t explain how much I needed this video after one week of quarantine! Thank you for always making something beautiful x
I actually cried so much at the footage where everyone started cheering on the streets, very heart warming. We haven't gone into lockdown in Aus...yet, I reckon they will make an announcement either tonight or the next though, we will see. It just makes everyone very unsure as no one is quite certain on the way they should act. Thankyou Grayson and Rufus for making me smile little mates, gray with your willy parrot and Rufus with your bear fighting stick :)
Kat Sunshine_92 I would have said we in Aus have been told to stay home for at least the past two weeks. Self isolation has been stressed but too many dickheads don’t cooperate, nor do they understand 2m distancing, and carry on like there isn’t a crisis.
Did you see the image of customs at Sydney airport the other day? People packed in like sardines! With ScoMo announcing last night we can't go to parks anymore and other measures my husband and I honestly reading it as we are officially in lockdown. I just wish the government would acknowledge it
feels so apocalyptic, it’s crazy that we’re experiencing the stuff that’s gonna be in textbooks 😔
Oh gosh. Graysons opening “I don’t know when I’ll see my best friends again” was a real trigger to my tears. This is the hardest part of all for me. My eldest daughter has abruptly left her Year 6 buddies behind. It’s awful!
I think you hit the balance so well. It was funny, bleak, honest and heartwarming - I really loved today's video. Thanks, guys!
I grew up during a civil war and whenever I would get anxious about the situation, my mum would say the exact same thing, we're all just a bit lost right now - we'll find our way back. Worked a treat ❤
THIS is why I’ve been watching you guys for so many years. Small moments making the big ones seems more manageable. Perfect ending to the video as well, love a good cry
After the all the news being thrown at your face 24/7, this felt like fresh breath of air.And I cannot emphasis enough how hard it hit me when you said " We all are in different boats but in the same ocean". Take care Steph and Hannah. Love from India.
Very very nicely done! Will be a great one to look back on in 47 years when this is all over.
I started watching your videos in my first year of studying nursing at university and it helped me homesickness. I’m now an ICU nurse and stuck far away from my family. I cried at the clapping in this video but also about how grateful I am that these videos have been an escape most Sundays for the last 4 years. Keep up the amazing work Stef ❤️
I have been in a long time follower of your family since the v beginning and rarely do I comment. This is definitely a weird time to live in and yes very scary and challenging. Thank you Stef for highlighting the fact that most people are going to be in different boats at what the pandemic has brought but we remain hopeful that this too shall pass. I am a nurse, may not be working with the NHS but we are trying our very best to help our community and win this battle. Can't stress enough the importance of hand hygiene, social distancing, no to hoarding TP or food and stay safe Michalaks!
This is the first thing that's made me feel better since this whole nightmare started. I am a student teacher in Belfast, my school has closed and I won't be going back to uni. Such a change of life for students, no friends, no nights out etc. I am now at home with my Mum feeling very claustrophobic. When you're an only child also it's so isolating, especially as my Mum works. Praying this whole thing ends. Keep making content, it's the only thing getting me through xx
It made me smile when you said we are all in different boats, we literally are as we live in a narrowboat. This week has been interesting to say the least. The Clap got the NHS made me emotional and at the marina where we live all the boats beeped their horns and flashed their lights. Thank you for sharing you week!
I saved watching this video until I needed to feel more positive and it was tonight! Thank you for the video guys! It helped a lot I might watch it again tomorrow 😊
It's so hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel & trying to home school 4 children (with a 1 Yr old) while my fiance works 14.5 hr shifts, thankfully only 3/4 days a week as a psychiatric nurse, stay sane, stop the kids fighting, keep us all healthy and not feel anxious is taking its toll x
Thank you so much for making this video! I'm in America on the front lines fighting this in the hospital with all the nurses and Drs. The end made me cry. I know we are headed to full lockdown here soon. Both my husband and I are essential employees and we have an 8 month old that can't be in school since they closed it on Friday. Thanks for cheering me up and helping me to face another week wearing a mask all day and not knowing when I'm being exposed to the virus. Stay safe out there!!
This was such an emotional video. I'm from Canada and it's great to see how this is impacting everyone around the world. I had recently said to my husband it is a mind blowing thought to think that 30 or 40 or 50 years from now our children will be reading about this in a textbook during a school lesson and here we are living in the moment, in it right now. It really shows that we are all one.
"you can only paint with the paints you have at your disposal" love that phrase! Hope you guys are keeping well...bumped into you a few years ago in Bath, still loving the videos!
Thank you for putting the progression of this whole situation and how maybe a lot of us have felt and have been feeling since the beginning into beautiful beautiful artwork. The things I felt but could not identify, I could identify them now.
We've just done over 3 weeks of lockdown here in Italy - with no end in sight! I'm enjoying it, I've just had my second child so all 4 of us are at home and spending time together. Of course I'm worried about the situation, I feel sad for the people who are sick and huge gratitude for the frontline workers but I'm trying to see the positive side to all of this. I love my family and having this time together is special.
Loved your video!
Revisiting this after nearly 7 months made me shed a tear. Us frontliners are still out there day in & day out. I already forgot there was a time people paid us any attention & applauded at dusk.
Thanks for sharing, this was so sweet. Always love how your videos are so complex yet they just focus on all the smaller simpler things in life, they take me out of my own life for a moment and give such a sense of peace.
Watching from 3 weeks ahead of you in Italy. Hang in there, you do get used to it and will find that you have plenty to do every day. If you can get flour make pasta for lunch with the boys, we did that the other day. Take them on virtual day trips to Paris, Rome, etc.. After 20 days at home I still haven't had time to just sit and read for a few hours! Stay safe xx
I’m watching from the fading Italy.. and this video is so beautiful and poetic that made me cry..a virtual hug my friends
Started watching you guys 6 years ago after I went off to college and was homesick and friendless. Feeling similar now amongst all of this, and you continue to be a comfort of me, and everyone in this community I think. Glad we all have each other right now!
I’m 27 and have 3 autoimmune diseases putting me at high risk. However I work at a supermarket and even though everything else is closed, I’m still required to work because there’s nothing in place to help pay my bills if I don’t. Every time i go to work I’m so anxious about ending up sick. I’m not religious but I’m hoping to make it through this. Sending love to everyone in the same boat.
I think this has become my new favourite video from you guys, loved how you added in the clips from everyone clapping and making noises!. Honestly made me start tearing up. Also loved the music throughout set the perfect mood
"I really miss Brexit" xD xD xD never have I ever laughed so hard! Stef, you've done it again: this video is a masterpiece. Sending love to you and your family.
3AM in Toronto can't sleep in self - isolation (living alone gives new meaning to the latter word ) then a glimmer of light .. you've uploaded. Stay well guys.
In Toronto same situation :(
I'm in Ottawa. Apparently everyone's up at all hours, & napping in the afternoons. Should be interesting times when things get more normal. Take care.
In Calgary. Same.
In Toronto too :(
You make a very good point ...the timing of this for each of us is very relevant. Stuck alone in a bedsit with the meter running out must be grim compared to a family who all love each other under one roof
This was the perfect balance between escapism and reality... Which your videos always are. People saying they aren't going to talk about it feels a bit odd. I was at home healing from a C-section for a month before this, then the next day we had to isolate as the three kids had temperatures... Now lockdown. Being together in the house has significantly lost it's charm so this put me back in the frame of mind to get it back, thank you x
With such uncertain times I appreciate the way you still tell stories. Thanks for this video. From hysterics at your impatience with Joe Wicks to the tears of watching people clap for the nhs. Extreme emotions in the space of a few minutes. Both equally important to release. Stay safe everyone.
Beautiful and so touching, thank you guys for making such lovely art and sharing it with us all. Stay healthy. Stay safe. So much love and hope from Texas.
Hey guys, im just 2 days into my recovery from this evil virus, and I just watched this on my big tv whilst recovering in bed. Thank you. This WHOLE thing is a huge collective nightmare that everyone's having. Your videos help A LOT.
You never fail to express what I’m feeling in video form!! I’m sure most of us feel this way. Thank you ❤️
This is what I will show my grandchildren to explain this strange time. You have captured all the weird emotions surrounding this time perfectly. After watching all the announcements in real time, I guess in shock and disbelief, this was like seeing for them first time. The things we have heard, seen and now live are surreal but very real. We’ll have many stories to tell from this time, that’s for sure. You definitely didn’t get it wrong, fantastic job!
Each time I see a video that I think is your best work you come back with yet another to top it.How can you turn such difficult,challenging sad times into such a thing of beauty and make me smile,cry,tingle all over.You captured it perfectly in every aspect.Stay safe all of you!!xx
You guys have been putting a smile on my face since 2014. Thank you for everything you do, for us, but most importantly, the love you guys put into your family. 🧡
Can't believe that in Britain these measures are only now kicking in, here in Croatia we are in quarantine for 3 weeks now and we have less than 1000 cases. The quarantine started when we had abot 300 cases. Wish you all the best!
Well done... thank you ❤️. To anyone reading this ... we are all in this together and we will get through this together. Pls stay safe. 🙏🏽❤️
This was another beautiful video, thank you. The editing, music, clips for the NHS at the end had me in tears. Was amazing.
Watching your video nade me live the beggining of quarantine all over again! Love from Spain. We’ll get through this!
This was absolutely heartbreaking, heartwarming, perfectly beautiful. I probably spend a good amount of time crying too. You guys are so talented and I just love everything about you. Thank you for doing this! The future world will have a beautiful documentary of how it was. ❤️
❤️ overwhelming feelings of gratitude ❤️ I could relate to you when you were saying that you are in a more desirable situation in your life for this to occurs... so am I. And I am beyond grateful. That 8pm clapping made me all teary... thank you for stepping aside from the norm and sharing the good that has come from quarantine.. 💓
I’m not one to comment but finding out you were going to upload this week is the one thing that got me through this week. Your videos and your family are incredible and I’m just such a fan of your work! Thank you for sharing☺️
I'm usually a silent viewer, but I guess any type of connection these days is valuable. I write from Spain. We've been in strict quarantine for over 2 weeks now, and there are a few weeks left still. I am the daughter of a doctor. And I just wanted to say that it does get frustrating and it does become worrying, but we are going to get through this. And so will you. Hang on, and even if it gets worse, eventually it will get better.
The bit about the nhs is a heartwarming thing, but I think everyone in the nhs knows that after this all ends when they should be able to relax, everyone is going to come out of lockdown and do silly things and the demand on A&E, on the ambulance service is going to be much higher than it is right now. So if anyone reads this, remember to keep thinking about them when we all get out freedom again.
As the nation clapped their hands for the NHS that evening, my husband lost his mother to Covid19. She had been unwell for a while and we knew if she contracted this, she wouldn't survive it but none the less its awful. I've spent the past few weeks limiting myself to what I view online and protecting my mind from the fall out of it all and yet, now, we are in the thick of it and dealing with the worst case scenario. Planning a funeral in a world full of restrictions. Not being able to comfort a family with a hug, or sit in the same room together and share memories is so hard. Yes we have social media where we can connect. Yes we have phone. but its not the same. Nothing is the same x
Amazing to see you're still creating! This was so, so lovely - funny, endearing, informative, light hearted and just, needed. This is such an incredibly strange time that has felt surreal from day 1 (of hearing about the virus) so, any sense of noramlity is appreciated. Thanks Stef, Hannah, Grayson and Rufus. Thank you for offering (the world) a tasty serving of normality! Stay safe and keep well ❤
I think this is one of my favourite episodes from you guys ever. Also so cute when you were talking to Grayson in the car bc it reminded me of when you used to chat in the car when he was a tiny baby. I've been watching your vids for 6 years so I wish you the best. All the love ❤
Working for the NHS as a biomedical scientist in the midst of Covid-19, the claps and cheers meant the whole world. So heartwarming. So human. ♥️♥️
I don't know how this was even better than I hoped it would be! It had the exact right amount of documentary style information mixed with home video nastalgia. Love you guys, forever !
you've given people the hope for a future like yours. i just had to pause the video (10.38) after you said you thought you were going to get it wrong. You haven't done, people want to escape the constant fear mongering of the media and this bright look at your family really really helps.
I'm trying to catch up on all of your videos.. I just watched this..WOW ...I'm from Australia and we pretty much got the same news as you at the same time..now in one state of Australia ( which happens to be where I live ) we've gone back into lockdown.. the first wave seems like years ago.. I love this video as I think ( hopefully 🤞) we'll look back and be gobsmacked by the way our lives changed so rapidly ..btw keep up the great content ♥️ stay safe 🤞
Absolutely incredible cinematography, humour and the art of telling a story. Nice work
Very emotional and captured the rollercoaster of feelings really well - especially the guilt at sitting at home with all our comforts just being with each other - it will eventually drive us mad but right now it’s comforting xx
Wishing you all the best from Canada. We're under quarantine here too. 👍 Here's to better days.
hey guys,
watching your videos brightens my day, don't feel guilty for enjoying your family Stef, we have to get something good out of this and if we have it at home we are privileged, more than ever we have to enjoy the company we have .
a hug from Barcelona, take care!
I really liked what you said about us all being different boats sailing on the same ocean. I lost my boyfriend to mental health at the start of February this year before everything with the virus began to kick off. It's a lot for all of us to cope with in different ways. I really enjoyed this video, thank you. I hope you all stay safe x
I hoped so much you would upload today! Really needed a Michalak video on a sunday! :)
You made me laugh out loud but also cry about the clapping for the NHS...
Also don't feel guilty about enjoying quarantine, I work as a psychologist and heard many people say the same. It is quite nice to not have the pressure to do a million things and function all day.
Stay healthy Family Michalak!
This was amazing! Well done Stef! Hannah is everyone Mum and wife; everywhere. Sending love and strength!
What a gift you have made for the boy’s when they’re grown up to watch these beautiful moments in the craziest of times! Bravo X
This video made me so happy, I look forward to your videos every week & during this shit storm will be even more excited. I am still working thankfully as my workplace is making the equipment for the covid-19 vaccine... but on weekends I live in a single bedroom apartment on my own with just a fridge and a kettle.... its very lonely even for just 2 days of the week. Thank you for being something in my life that is almost always a known, I know that on a sunday there will be a 20 minute video that helps me move on from the week just past and ready for the next.
Keep smashing it and doing what you're doing.
I loved this so much 🧡 Don’t feel guilty, enjoy every little bit! And share! I love seeing you guys’ adventures, walks, the kids! Sending love and courage 💪🏼💪🏼 xxxx
Just an incredible piece of magic. Really enjoyed that during this weird time in world history. It actually calmed my nerves and made me teary eyed, laugh and all the other good emotions.
Thank you. Happy Sunday!
thank you for getting me out of my
foul mood, The silence and ambient noise was so calming to hear in the editing. thanks
Your videos always leave me hopeful even during bleak times like this. Thank you!
It is indeed a weird, weird time to be alive! Thank you Hannah for stating it concisely. From the USA, visited the UK for the first time December 2019 and honestly your videos inspired us to visit such a lovely place. I hope you all stay safe and healthy.
4am in Montreal. Can’t sleep. Watching this under the covers and tearing up while my husband is quietly snoring next to me. xx
I never comment even tho I’m here since Grayson was born. But I want to say - I love what you do and I love your vibe. And this video is what I needed. What we all needed I guess.. That’s true we’re sailing on the same ocean but in different boats. And I’m waving from my boat at yours with a big smile, feeling thankful. Stay safe folks x
Thank you guys, as a Brit living in Czechia it’s times like this I miss the UK spirit, stay safe 😘
I've been watching you guys since Grayson was a few months old but I don't think I've ever commented on a video. But concerning your dilemma Stef, I just want to say: i think I speak for everyone when I say you guys are an escape. We want the feel-good family stuff as much as we want the stressful, difficult stuff, because that's real! It's so great to see how successful you've become and the life you've been able to live through hard work and dedication, so just own it! Your true followers will support you no matter what xxxx
This video made my day, loved it so much👏 gave me a greatly needed break from all the madness around us. Thank you! ❤️
thank you so much for that kind of normal sunday feeling. self isolating in germany since one and a half weeks.
I love how unique these videos are! An absolutely amazing piece of art. Thankyou for enriching all our lives with this. Xx
i'm waiting to have my first baby any day now and this video was a perfect distraction and pick me up that i needed after this week. Thanks guys x
Another amazing video guys, and cried all over again at the clapping at the end. So emotional. Thank you for featuring my video. Take care and stay happy ♥️ zoey xx
Thanks for your story. Just what we needed instead of watching the news. One thing we miss is hugging our kids. We celebrated our daughter's birthday via Zoom. Life has changed as we knew it.
This was definitely the highlight of my day:) Especially the last scene was quite emotional. Lots of goosebumps and teary eyes. Loved it! We´re all in this together. Stay safe...Greetings from Munich, Germany:)
We're all here to see the picture that you're painting. With the paint u use, because we love it. So don't overthink it. Please keep showing your picture ♥
You've captured the feeling stupidly well. I was just talking to my boyfriend and saying how many people would've offed themselves if it had been storming AND quarantined.
This was so good. Thank you for a momentary relief from the craziness around us. Definitely put a smile on my face.
Shouting from Memphis, Tennessee. I always love you guys videos.💝 Stay Safe🤗
Rufus can talk so much now! This is such a good video, thank you for taking time out of your busy days to still post.
You’re humour is just what we need in these crazy times! Hi from a fellow Brit in Northern California on day 14 of quarantine!!!
PERFECTION, kudos for finding your tone of voice and uploading in this weird and strange time. Your video hit all the right spots as always. Great work. Stay sane and keep enjoying the time together.
This is one of, if not my favourite video from you guys. Thank you for just putting out the simple matter of fact that this too shall pass. Aside from the boring stuff about message and blah blah, this video is incredibly well shot, put together and well rounded in music, montage, emotion and technique. Great job! Can't wait to see more!
catching up with your videos and watching the build up and then when boris announced the lock down has given me mad goosebumps again. what a strange strange time. hope you're all well, soz i'm slow at watching vids but hey i've got time now lol x
Your boat, your paint, your perspective! 🙌🏼 Nailed it 👌🏽.... thanks for the positive perspective and putting your home time to good use ;) Back to weekly videos now??
Love how you have done this and got the balance so right. You have the right to enjoy it without the guilt. Yes not everyone has this opportunity but you have, that's where your lives are at. Stay safe xxx
Your videos are so beautiful and calming. They will keep me going through this time! This was perfect x
Omg! The entire thing was so emotional! Amazingly crafted! BEAUTIFUL!!♥️♥️ Had to pause every now and then to comment!
This video has made me feel so much more positive. Thank you!
Good ole Michalak normality amongst all this madness 💙 Beautiful job as always Stef, between your editing and Tom's music 😢 xx