Short Work Week
If I didn't have Johnnie waking up next to me, I could swear it didn't feel like a work day today. The short work week right after Memorial Day is always difficult simply because of the long weekend, but even more so when you're working from home. Still we could be found first thing this morning at Lisa's office. We had to go there right after the usual early breakfast so we could print Johnnie's homeschool lesson plan for the week. Lisa wasn't there yet and I was glad. The less interaction until absolutely necessary the better... at least until I get my head right again. And so we got done inside of 15 minutes and then back home we went to get started with Johnnie's lessons. I even managed to meet with my team for about 15 minutes, solving another gotta-get-done issue that came up, this time procuring 12 tablets ready to go by Friday. The trick about these things is you still have to make a choice, and in my case I always have to hope I did my homework enough to make the right choice. So far so good up to this point I think. For his part, Johnnie has a short week too, but I'm still trying to get 4 days of schoolwork done in 3 days, knowing full well that Lisa isn't even going to attempt to do his Friday work. And that was ok with me. As long as I know in advance, I could make the adjustments. He also had his writing assignment he had to do today and since the subject was FRIENDSHIP, he wanted to write about him being friends with his brother Tony. Awww how cute is that. And he was EXCITED to write about it and already is talking about how he can't wait to do his share tomorrow at the Zoom class meeting. And so what picture do I choose to post to represent our morning? that would be my Little Bug slurping down his spaghetti for lunch. I made myself one of those nice lavash turkey wraps for my lunch, having the luxury of not having any more meetings for the remainder of the day. Not that I didn't have anything to do mind you. I feel like I have a dozen administrative things to take care of, all with end of June deadlines. But I was not going to push myself... not today at least. What for? It's a short week!
And so Tuesday morphed into regular Tuesday, with a reminder that a week ago was the day I chose to end the 11,000 step streak. I made 11,100 pretty easily yesterday and today because I finally got out to help Johnnie do soccer drills with those cones I bought, I was already at 7,000 before dinner time. Quite a different week from last week, and a return to normalcy I think. I barbecued sausage for Johnnie and I, and the thing I forgot to do last week? Was make cookjies! How could I not make cookies?! We've been doing that on Tuesday nights for almost 2 years! How can I let THAT streak end too? I made up for it tonight that's for sure. Even Johnnie said the cookies were extra good tonight. Or maybe it's just that he missed it from last week LOL. I let him watch Pete the Cat all the way until bedtime. The return to nomal thing is a big deal if only to keep up whatever routines we CAN keep up, knowing full well that in the bigger picture, nothing is routine anymore. Just stuff we're doing while the big coronavirus stuff that altered all our lives is still pretty much going on. And we all settle into a new normal. I don't know that all that stuff I was experiencing physically last week was finally my internal thoughs finally giving in to all the negativity around me. Which makes it all the more important to make sure I am vigilant of what is going on in my own head. There was already plenty to work on in terms of keeping my vibration as high as possible at all times. Whatever brought up last week's pains I'm sure I'm still working through. But it does help that at the end of the night, I can give Johnnie a nice shower and clean him up, and let him watch his 2 Bert-and-Ernie videos before he goes to beat. And just hearing him yawn a nice big yawn next to me before dropping off to sleep is plenty good enough for a reminder that everything is OK. It is plenty good enough to help me deal with everything else going on in the world outside.. And helps me settle in myself and get to sleep early. It was all good today. And I'm grateful for that.
If I didn't have Johnnie waking up next to me, I could swear it didn't feel like a work day today. The short work week right after Memorial Day is always difficult simply because of the long weekend, but even more so when you're working from home. Still we could be found first thing this morning at Lisa's office. We had to go there right after the usual early breakfast so we could print Johnnie's homeschool lesson plan for the week. Lisa wasn't there yet and I was glad. The less interaction until absolutely necessary the better... at least until I get my head right again. And so we got done inside of 15 minutes and then back home we went to get started with Johnnie's lessons. I even managed to meet with my team for about 15 minutes, solving another gotta-get-done issue that came up, this time procuring 12 tablets ready to go by Friday. The trick about these things is you still have to make a choice, and in my case I always have to hope I did my homework enough to make the right choice. So far so good up to this point I think. For his part, Johnnie has a short week too, but I'm still trying to get 4 days of schoolwork done in 3 days, knowing full well that Lisa isn't even going to attempt to do his Friday work. And that was ok with me. As long as I know in advance, I could make the adjustments. He also had his writing assignment he had to do today and since the subject was FRIENDSHIP, he wanted to write about him being friends with his brother Tony. Awww how cute is that. And he was EXCITED to write about it and already is talking about how he can't wait to do his share tomorrow at the Zoom class meeting. And so what picture do I choose to post to represent our morning? that would be my Little Bug slurping down his spaghetti for lunch. I made myself one of those nice lavash turkey wraps for my lunch, having the luxury of not having any more meetings for the remainder of the day. Not that I didn't have anything to do mind you. I feel like I have a dozen administrative things to take care of, all with end of June deadlines. But I was not going to push myself... not today at least. What for? It's a short week!
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