Mid Week Autopilot

So it's midweek and I'm feeling like I'm just hanging on to what I know, which means I'm on autopilot once again. Which is not good. What does that mean? We get up, we go to McDonald's, we get Johnnie's Deluxe Breakfast... we've done this so much I don't even have to make an order when we drive up, all I have to do is make face contact with the person taking the order. This by itself isn't that bad, after all at least I can be sure he's eating eggs and sausage in the morning. And I would much rather buy it than make it. It costs just as much as my usual breakfast at the FRB such as it were. Where I start to get stressed is after breakfast. What program do I put Johnnie on today? So far I've been giving him a lot of art classes, trying to balance learning with a sense of fun. And today the lesson was how to draw the Cat-In-the-Hat, one of his favorite things to watch. The learning is for me as well. How do I deal with Johnnie when he gets impatient? Already he is showing signs of needing to be perfect, needing to "win" all the time. How do I create balance in those areas? To keep with the "fun" theme, I got Johnnie doing Maximo exercises. The funny thing was it seemed to have been removed from GoNoodle. I had to go to YouTube to find them. May have been because of the perceived racial insensitivity of the character itself. I myself thought this was a character in a blackface but with a Latino accent. I thought it was harmless. But not in this current time right now I guess. Anyway, for us, it's just a PE session so Johnnie can have some activity simulated to what he was doing in class. Later on, I would augment that with some baseball in the barbecue area, for both he and I. For Johnnie so that he could get out of the house, for me so that I could get out of the house too LOL. I pointed out to him that when he is actually focused, as in when he is looking for the ball to hit, he does hit it every.single.time. Which is a very good thing. Eye-hand coordination and all. As was the exercise I came up with to cut out stuff, color it and paste it all back together to spell words. Today it was all about the Cat-In-The-Hat. The thing too about Johnnie is that I know he didn't actually take much of a lunch when he was in school. But here at my house... and ESPECIALLY at my house, he knows he will eat. I'll be damned if I let him learn Lisa's unhealthy eating patterns. Today Johnnie had it in his mind that we would scooter to Whole Foods so we could get some pizza. I was actually happy to do just that even though my intention was to make myself some noodles and beef for lunch. I was glad that he was getting so much confidence in the scooter and riding it. He did do a pretty bad spill on the ride back because he didn't pay attention and rode into a patch of grass. He got right back up though and instead of crying or even acknowledging any kind of hurt, he just hopped right back on after a minute and rode on home. THAT'S MY BOY!!  Anyway, it IS a Wednesday and before you think all I did was do Johnnie stuff all day, I did manage to get my contracts all done! That would be THREE contracts thank you very much. And so I actually worked today too. And I did have the afternoon huddle which was moved to 3 PM. Which allowed Johnnie to have a little video time before we got out of the house again, this time to get dinner at Panda Express. It IS Wednesday after all and even though we just had it last night, I wanted to keep the routine of driving to Panda Westwood. Look at the pic of Johnnie playing on the handrails as if they were gymnastics bars. All good. We went home and enjoyed our Panda Feast, and then I put on the Old Magic School bus for Johnnie. And then afterwards, he wanted to watch the first Frozen movie too. All good. It's all eating up chunks of time. I got some work in too while he watched and also did my aerobics to finish 11,100+ steps for the day. And 30+ minutes of cardio. This is now a new routine I guess. As is taking a night shower with Johnnie. He was so sweaty from the scooter ride, and that is perfectly ok. At first I titled this post mid-week autopilot. But with that said, I think we managed to have a pretty good day anyway. And as he knocked off to sleep next to me I felt gratitude. Yes these are different, unique, and challenging times. But as long as I got to have time with Johnnie, autopilot or not, it is ALL good.