With families sheltering at home - sport and extracurricular activities shuttered and school from home encouraged, Mrs Callaway, her husband Ben and daughters Olive, 6, Frankie, 8, Lyla, 10, and Elsie, 12, have been spending a lot of time with each other ahead of Mother's Day on Sunday - and she's loved it.

"We've really enjoyed our time together," the mother of four said.

"We've really being getting into things like sewing and lego and cooking, all that stuff you really imagine doing when you become a mum, but life gets in the way."

While the house is normally abuzz with the girls playing sport and bustling about, Mrs Callaway said "it's nice to actually slow down and spend some time together".

Both Mr and Mrs Callaway are teachers, with Ben a PE teacher at Orange High School and Em at Anson Street School which has been a big struggle - the family's two youngest have gone back to school.

"I just couldn't do it with classes on my own," Mrs Callaway, acknowledging that having both of them still employed was a massive boon - although not one without challenges.

"It's been a massive learning curve but will help my teaching going forwards ... big picture it's about keep my kids happy - both my kids and my class."

However, like many others, restrictions still in place across the state on numbers of people at gatherings and on visits to nursing homes and retirement villages will mean phone calls and video chats instead of face-to-face catchups on Sunday.

Chez Morrison will be celebrating her first Mother's Day this week after she became a mum on Tuesday with the birth of first child Bluey.

Ms Morrison and partner Zac Riley have only been home for a few days, and she's hoping to have her mother visit over the weekend to visit.

Ms Morrison said Bluey was doing well and loving cuddles, and having his grandmother visit her grandchild over the weekend would ensure many hugs to come.

While having your first child is always a shock, giving birth during a pandemic was another layer of surrealism for Ms Morrison - who's planned baby shower at work had to be done in smaller groups due to limits on the number of people allowed in the same room.

Ultrasounds and checkups had to mostly be done alone, but while mum, dad and bub weren't allowed visitors at the hospital, she's still smitten by Bluey.