Week Is Now Upside Down

And so with yesterday's events at the doctor's office, the week is now upside down and not really because I am that much buried work. Not at all. Just that the routine I had been building has now been upended. I will admit that I had a particularly nice time hanging out with my son at Playa Vista... even allowing myself to think that someday I will probably be living in this area targeting a condo buy around here someplace. I like the proximity to everything and that the place definitely had a upper class suburbian vibe. Anyway now my attention shifts to the routine a year ago when Johnnie started kindergarten online.  I didn't mind that routine really, especially since Johnnie was pretty much occupied throughout the morning with class. But to be sure, my head was flipping back and forth between work stuff and getting Johnnie in and out of classes. And today though that was my intent, I had very little time to prepare and get some stuff lined up. Fortunately, I did ask his teacher what we needed to do if Johnnie were down and at home for most of this week. She let me know they're in the middle of reading and writing assessments and that they have that assignment at the end of the week to write something about themselves. I know that writing is Johnnie's weakness. Not that he's not able to write, but he still has to work on his writing mechanics and his letters and definitely his spelling. And with that I am also trying to encourage him to learn to put his thoughts and feelings on paper. That really isn't something he has problems with just that he has to be pushed into high levels of emotion to do that. In other words, he does that when he's really mad, or really angry or really sad or if his feelings are really hurt. And so the first thing I got him to do this morning was to a couple of writing exercises. I asked him to write about one of his favorite things. So he ended up writing about Claire. I also asked him to write about what he just watched on YouTube regarding Coyote Peterson. I mean he's really good about regurgitating all that stuff verbally. It's just a matter of getting him to express himself in writing is all. I tried to give him a balanced day. Gave him some reading exercises, some double-digit math addition and subtraction stuff. AND for sure I got him a 30 minute karate exercise with DojoGo again. And for once he had his lunch on time at noon. I haven't forgotten when he would eat at 11:20 a year ago because he had a class at noon. Anyway, by the time he got through all these things, It was already 3 PM. Hey not too bad for an impromptu homeschool day LOL.  All the while, I was monitoring his symptoms. I mean they haven't gotten appreciably better, but they hadn't gotten any worse either. Which means he is probably not all that badly infected and definitely not too badly affected. In the meantime, it WAS a work day after all and I thought about this time last year and I suppose I wasn't being pushed all that hard. I mean, I hadn't taken over Data Analytics yet, nor had I taken over EHR. What would I have been so busy doing LOL?? Just being a work-from-home-dad with his kid starting kindergarten online that's what. In retrospect it didn't start out as smoothly as one would hope. But it did end up getting going just fine. And I remind myself that at the end of the day it was a GIFT to have been able to spend all that time with Johnnie working from home. And that this week is merely more of the same. I mean I do want to be simply a stay-at-home dad don't I? Well guess what. The Unverse is asking me if I'm sure about that. Hey if I didn't need to worry about work stuff, then most definitely YES! We went out and about and made it to Panda Express for our dinner afterwards, leaving Claire at home and despite having my attention always being diverted, I still managed to finish my 11,000 steps and 60+ active minutes today. Tomorrow is more of the same since JOhnnie is supposed to stay home through at least tomorrow and more likely Thursday with Friday being his first chance to go back to school. I think we're all good. And I dare say I think Johnnie liked hanging out with dad for the day. Even when I gave him a discipline moment when he yanked Claire's leg so hard she yelped. I had to let him know in no uncertain terms that THAT was not acceptable. All was ok otherwise. Fortunately, it's lookin' like a chill week.