Hi Sam!
I'm really glad the cloning thing worked out! You honestly flatter me too much; it was just a short five minute task that I knew I could help out with.
For your technical question, you are pretty much in the clear up to the point where the Pokemon enter Home. For example, I cloned myself a whole box of shiny Celebi cause I really want to have those on hand in case Pokemon Bank servers get shut down, and the whole box of them traveled to Home and remained there with no issue. Basically, if the Pokemon has never entered Home, you clone it, and put all the clones onto Home, each one would be treated as a unique Pokemon. But once it HAS entered Home, cloning it will prove to be a little more difficult unless you just need the clone to trade away (tracking IDs aren't checked between accounts). I hope that helps!
I have been doing well myself! Work has been nice, but yes definitely looking forward to that Christmas break. Waking up at 6 AM five days a week has triggered a deep symptom in me where anything that remotely sounds like my alarm ringtone sends me into a panic ??????
How about you? How are things and life in general? Hopefully you've been doing well amidst the pandemic craziness?