Johnnie's First Day of School

I woke up this Monday really early and the first thing on my mind was that I had to generate a Daily Pass for Johnnie for his first day of school. Here it is I'm not even in charge of dropping him off or picking him up today and his first day of school is STILL the first thing on my mind. I even got a ping from Brooklyn's mom already asking if the kids could walk in together. It's HER first day back in person so I could understand a little hesitancy. And so I already told Johnnie he has to watch for her and show her the ropes. By mid-day a whole slew of pictures from her new teacher already and I'm posting them here. I also got a ping from Lisa letting me know that the drop off went pretty smoothly and that the kids did get to walk in to their new room together. Awww. The picture of Johnnie with a piece of watermelon on his hand was pretty priceless. He had that look of: most-likely-to-start-a-cafeteria-food-fight-before-he-graduates-from-high-school. LOL LOL. In the meantime, it IS Monday and it IS Tech Council Meeting week, which means I need to get material together and put a presentation together for WEdnesday. Sigh. And I got Barbara breathing down my back on a couple of items. I want to respond to her quickly only because I know she is dealing with the news of her husband being diagnosed with Stage IV cancer and so I am trying to at least get her stuff she needs if THAT is how she is choosing to cope is to simply get back in the game. Also in the meantime, it IS Monday and I do want to get my 15,000 steps and 100 active minutes in today. It felt like I got off my dime pretty late this morning since I was focused on the Johnnie thing though he wasn't even around. Mentally, I was just not where I would have been normally. And so I got started on everything kind of late. Even taking a shower, my reports that are usually due, work stuff.  By lunchtime I was debating what to eat and I ended up going to McDonald's to get a crispy chicken sandwich. Hey, it actually got me kickstarted on my walk ok? And even with a bag of food and fries and a coke in my hand, I still managed to walk around my neighborhood and got myself to 8000 steps by 2 PM. I even had time for a nap... or at least a meditative session. And later on, Lisa called to do a bit of a download. Her fridge arrived but didn't fit, a staffer of hers quit, a long-time one quit too. All I could was offer a "hey, you guys will figure it out, you always do". I wouldn't do that before. I would always try to solve her problem and get myself in trouble doing so. All she really needed was to download and since she hadn't done that in quite a while, this time I simply let her. Besides, I'm coming by later on to pick up Johnnie for MOnday hand-off night anyway. There were a lot of things going on at school too. Apparently they didn't have a Beyond-the-Bell coach. A good thing we enrolled Johnnie at STAR. At least he's covered until at least 5 PM. From what I heard, Mama Vicky and Lisa picked him up and Johnnie got in trouble for showing a not-so-welcome face when she realized Mama Vicky was there. Gotta teach that kid not to wear his emotions on his sleeve all the time. I went by at 6 PM to get him and mom and son were eating pizza baked in Lisa's pizzaria that she got as a present. They did Boboli and sauce and pepperoni and it wasn't bad really. Wasn't as good as I expected but hey, it's a pizza. I had a couple of pieces myself... then augmented it with a tostada salad from El Pollo Loco.  I picked him up late so it was 8 PM in no time it seemed. And Johnnie was already ready to wind down. He still needed to take a shower and his clothes were covered with dirt and pizza. But that meant that he had himself a pretty good day. I heard from Blair, Brooklyn's mom, that HER day went perfect! Can't do better than that. And tomorrow.. it is back to my turn :)