Tuesday Off-Routine

So here it is I'm now right in the middle of summer. I am working from home and Johnnie is with me for the next few days. I remember last year around this time I just spontaneously took him to Disneyland. Man I'm so glad I did too, now that we don't even know when the Happiest Place on Earth is going to open again. Today I'm just trying to settle on a set plan to keep Johnnie occupied all day. I do have resources I've already tried. There's Khan Academy for kids, there's the bookflix website. There's education.com, even ABCMouse. For some reason thought it's this low-tech thing I devised that Johnnie really took to. I just make him spell out sight words, color them, cut them out, match them with a picture... something I'm able to draw obviously and then paste them all fixed up. This one activity takes up to a half hour actually. Which was just enough time for me to have my IS Team Meeting first thing this morning. And then of course there is Maximo on Youtube. Because they had taken it down from GoNoodle. Maybe because it's a blackface kind of character, they might have thought it would offend. Me? It's one more thing I can use to keep Johnnie active and occupied. And so today I actually did just that... keep him active and occupied. Art from Khan Academy. Drawing class from YouTube. Math from Freckle (and actually it was easy enough to just create a page of equations just like at STAR). Books from Bookflix. I think I was covered. See the pic I posted of him doing art. And simultaneously, I kept MYSELF occupied by doing my own aerobics class, discovering that I actually cover a lot more steps and do better with my cardio doing just that than simply walking around anywhere. And I was able to do it while on break doing work work. The week after Tech Council is usually pretty light but with all the administrative stuff I have to do, I'm actually pretty busy. Right off the bat I have not one but THREE contracts I have to push through because they are expiring. As in tomorrow! Fortunately I don't have to deal with Alan anymore and his inconsistent timing of the contracts. And then I have personnel reviews due next week and my own self-eval due Friday. Still, as you can see, by 3 PM I called it a day as far as JOhnnie's lessons and called it a day as far as my work. I mean do I really even stop working anyway? Don't I reply to emails at any hour pretty much? Still I find the now regular afternoon scooter ride with Johnnie pretty nice actually. Today we paid his school another visit, realizing that summer session online has actually started. Johnnie did the loop to the school and all the way back home pretty easily actually and didn't fall once today. He did work up a sweat that he himself had to cool down outside. He was actually so hungry that he asked for Panda Express for dinner. Mind you Panda Express night used to be Tuesday night originally back in the days of Carmen's Day Care. And so I thought it was ok to break off routine and get Panda Express for he and I, even if it meant eating it 2 nights in a row. Besides, we might go off routine for barbecue Italian sausage and soccer but we could still do cookies tonight. Even then Johnnie has developed a preference for ice cream sandwich which I bought a package last week. Hey I would do. It's summer after all. And so it was that I think I pretty much successfully replicated a school day for Johnnie, even though it IS summer and I really should find more entertaining stuff to do. Don't want to overload him too much. Not that he would let me anyway. He IS a playful spirit and everything is play to him and I would definitely not want to mess with that. When he's in play mode, he can pretty much do anything he puts his mind to. As for me, I think I'll be able to get contracts through this week actually. Just one thing to tick off my list and that's ok. Johnnie pretty much played all through bedtime prep and his shower. And he did talk me into joining him. It's actually better showering at night, then I don't have to worry about missing it in the morning LOL which I am prone to do. Today I didn't do the formal meditation scan that I did yesterday morning. But I did manage to slow down on my way to sleep and do a meditation scan then. That was to examine all the things that went through my mind today as much as possible and hopefully find and release things that needed to be released. Yesterday it was the ego thing with the Approvals app. Today it was all about Johnnie and I realized that no matter what, I actually did feel pretty close to him all day, which meant that my vibration was high for most of the day. And that is a very good thing.