Johnnie Schedule Way Busier Than Mine

If ever there was any indication of how busy most of the day was going to be, it was that I was actually trying to get as much as I could done in the morning. That's because once his mid-day class starts at 12:10, it would be bang-bang-bang for the rest of the afternoon until and past 4 PM. And as it turned out I actually had a couple of meetings myself in the morning anyway. There was my team meeting of course, and then there was an OCHIN pilot meeting at 11 AM and then an impromptu meeting with Chad about buttoning up a process with giving providers their laptops. By the time lunch time had rolled around, I felt like I had already had almost a full day. And Johnnie's was barely getting started with his. And so he did his noon class and he even left a couple of minutes early. That's because we had a 1:15 appointment to get he and I Covid tested at Grand View Elementary school. The school was as far from me as Lisa's house so I knew I could get there in mere minutes. But since I didn't know the layout of the school or where we were even supposed to go, I figured I'd get there as early as I could. Turned out we got there by 1:10. I thought it would be much busier than it was actually. There was not a line in fact. We were processed as soon as we got there and then we got the swab tests almost immediately. Lisa had her horror story of getting a long swabbed shoved almost up to her brain. No such thing this go-round. I put the swab no more than a half inch up Johnnie's nose. And for me, it was no more than an inch. As Johnnie would say, eezy-peezy-sneezy. And we were out of there by 1:15! And so we were home by 1:30 and we had plenty of time before Johnnie's next activity. That would be swim class. The challenge today was that it was pretty breezy. Not cold really, but maybe the water was. And there was some debris in the water because it had been windy for the last couple of days. Johnnie did ok, and actually did the backstroke stuff just as Stacy told him to. The problem was that he got really whiny towards the end. Either he was getting too cold or he simply didn't feel like swimming anymore. We did manage to finish the class by 3 PM and that meant we had to hustle to get home to get to his next class, which was the Computer Programming class. I got him all changed but he was still trembling a bit from the cold. All the way home. And when we got home I had to bundle him up with layers. I put long pants on him, socks, even a jacket. And I could tell he was STILL cold. Poor thing. Did I push him too hard at the pool? All I knew was that he was very much distracted and couldn't really focus on his class well. He did manage to make it through the class though and by the end of the class, it seemed like he had sufficiently warmed up and he had gotten back to normal. He even did manage to get his exercises done. And so by 4 PM, he was all done, he seemed back to his usual self and I could finally breathe out. <Sigh> We did go to Panda Express for his dinner and he wolfed down the entire little plate of rice and teriyaki chicken. And of course I had to let him watch whatever he wanted as a reward for being such a trooper all day today. A bang-bang-bang kind of day got done. And I had him go to bed earlier than usual tonight. More stuff to do tomorrow. Picture taking day first thing at the school. I'm thinking to myself how do I end up with all the have-to-do activities??