Thursday Johnnie Time

You know all these months I've had Johnnie at home in the middle of the week and juggling home-schooling and watching him for the good part of the day, I never really realized that THAT by itself is stressful. I remember what Lisa herself said to me one day... which is that she understands the juggling act between getting work done and also taking care of Johnnie and not really doing all that well in both. This morning maybe I was in a more self-aware state because I saw myself get stressed just trying to make sure Johnnie had something to occupy himself with all day. And that with all the consciousness expansion path I'm trying to stay on, work and Johnnie is still the primary focus of my attention. And everything else is not easy. But I also wouldn't trade time with Johnnie with anything. He MAY push my patience to its limits every single day. But he more than makes up for it when I just hear him giggle and laugh and when he tries to climb up the back of the sofa to stalk me a like a tiger and try to jump on the back of my neck. Yes... he IS playing. And I love that he does that. If there are any enduring moments during this time of coronavirus, most of it is about this time with Johnnie. But it IS different when school was still in session than now. And today, I find myself still trying to figure out how what to do with his time. So this morning art "class" was about drawing Pete the Cat and PE was about more Maximo LOL. Lunch was chicken strips from Carl's Jr...which meant that my lunch was a BEYOND cheeseburger. Hey, anytime I can enjoy a good burger and not actually be eating real meat, it's gotta be good right?

OK so I didn't actually do too much work today. Or did I? I did get my Team Meeting done, I did get all those renewal contracts executed finally. And I did manage to look at my own Performance Eval from last year so i can do my self-assessment for this year. And hey I did all that stuff AND get some aerobics in too, which got me to a lot of steps by mid-afternoon. And then it was time to go scootering with Johnnie. I didn't realize that we've actually been doing this thing for almost a month now and I'm so happy he's getting more and more confident by the day. I can say that doing these kinds of things with him definitely keeps my vibration high. Just the sight of him using his little legs to propel him on that little scooter going right on down the street makes me smile. Today we went the back way to Mar Vista Elementary via Palms and Mar Vista Park and then back around the regular way home. It also made me smile thinking of some future, distant or otherwise where I'd be picking him up from school or STAR classes and scootering home together. Anyway when we got back I started to wind him down so he'd be read for Lisa pick-up by right around 7:30. He wouldn't have much more dinner than 6 pieces of McDonald's chicken McNuggets. Funny how he eats nothing but pasta at Lisa's but with me, he eats nothing but chicken LOL. I guess that's a balance huh? Anyway I had him watching Peep and Chirp for a while and then wanted to play with him one last time before handing him off. And of course play time between he and i usually means rough-housing time. And so by 7:30 PM he was sweaty and his shirt got a bit dirty. He looked like the way he would when I would pick him up from school. Hey, if he's dirty that means he had a good fun time right? So Lisa was actually on time tonight pretty much and pick-up was uneventful. See the pic I took of Johnnie and I right as she was driving up? Afterwards I finished up my 11,100+ steps, which wasn't that much left, and then I cleaned up the apartment. Amazing how much rice particles he leaves on the floor LOL. Anyway with my apartment much cleaner, I was able to watch TV much more "relaxed". And I relaxed means pretty good sleep.