Another New New Routine

And so we get started with Johnnie's summer of 2021. Actually it got started yesterday, today is just me refreshing my morning routine to account for dropping Johnnie off at Penmar camp. Today is also the day California and Los Angeles specifically for me reopens again. What does that mean? Supposedly we don't have to wear masks anymore generally or social distance if we've been vaccinated, which is now the majority of people in LA and California. But there are venues were masks are still required, like schools and summer camps. Hence Johnnie is still donning his mask as am I when I dropped him off this morning. It was a tad different than last time we did this here a couple of years ago. For starters, he knows at least one other person in camp already, that would be Simon who used to live in the next door house on Maplewood. And there didn't seem to be a whole lot of kids there. A dozen or so kids is smaller than his kinder class. What I hope he experiences in this camp is to meet new friends and play play play his heart away. And discover new things. The drop-off itself was a non-event really. Check-in, temp check, eezy peezy just like at school. And although it is obviously farther than Mar Vista Elementary, it's not THAT much farther and I'm home in 10 minutes. I dropped him off at 8:15 this morning and so I was home before 8:30. I did my IS Team Meeting and then put my head down and worked worked worked the rest of the day. I obviously had my Technology Council presentation to do and I wanted to be done before the end of the day. I still had to formulate what I wanted to present and I think I wanted to spend some time talking about the EHR team and what that would be like to executive leadership. I don't know what their priorities are really, or what they should be. And I wanted to be right upfront that THAT by itself would be a work in progress. Anyway I just chugged along and got into a rhythm and even managed to make myself a nice ground pork yakisoba lunch. I know I know I really am getting tired of cooking every single day but I had all this food in the fridge...what am I supposed to do?! I keep saying it's not the cooking but washing the dishes afterwards that bugs, but hey I just slogged along today. Anyway I kept on working and I got a whole lot done.

 

So picking up Johnnie in the afternoon served as sort of a break. I was ALMOST completely done with my presentation actually. I know it has a template-y kind of feel for it and you never know what the level of interest is really. My job was just to let the higher-ups know what's going on, especially now that I have 3 departments under me. Harder to do that. But I brushed these thoughts off as I see Johnnie running to me with a dirty shirt and sweat gleaming off his brow. That means he had fun! And that is all  a parent could ask LOL. I was sort of hoping he would at least eat lunch there but no he didn't. He waited until I picked him up. Lucky for both of us I had some of those turkey ravioli things ready to heat. And then on to his real routine, which is watching the Wild Kratts. Today he wanted to crank out the trampoline. It had been stored in my clothes closet since the fall. I guess he's going to be really active again this summer, which I can't argue with. Especially since he had it going on with his drawing and writing anyway. He really does a good job of putting ideas on paper. Listen to his discourse that I posted. And so as it turned out the new routine wasn't really all that different from the school routine, other than we left for drop-off a full half hour later than school. And in the evening, he went to sleep easily... a sure sign that he had had a full day. All good.