A Different Saturday

So yesterday I agreed to let Johnnie work with Lisa at her office this morning. It is MY time with him but I also got to spend last night with him already so I thought it was ok for mom and Johnnie to hang out even though I knew full well she would be too busy to give him any attention whatsoever. Still she got him ready, packed him a huge lunch and tried to keep him occupied. How do I know this? Because I was supposed to come at 11:30 AM to pick him up. When Lisa saw me she seemed surprised. I don't know why. The last words I literally said to her last night as I left was "see you tomorrow at lunchtime". It turned out that she talked to her mom and that she was coming to hang out with Johnnie for the afternoon. WTF?! Now I'm feeling hijacked again. Whenever I feel like Lisa finally starts to factor me in to her decisions regarding Johnnie, she reverts back to forgetting and making plans as if I don't exist. As for Johnnie he was clearly bored and the second he saw me he immediately started to pack up his stuff and said he was glad to be going back to the apartment. THAT took Lisa by surprise and we were already almost in my car already before Lisa called to let me know her mom was already on her way.  We had to turn right around and you should have seen the look of disappointment on Johnnie's face. I had to tell him what was going on and that he had to play nice with Mama Vicky for the afternoon.  In the meantime, I prepped his penne pasta lunch in chicken noodle soup. Hey if I don't get to spend the usual Saturday with him, whatever time I get is fine. 4 minutes, 40 minutes 4 hours. And I got to see that big smile now missing the tooth that had been loose for more than a week now. Seeing that smile and suddenly I'm no longer irritated with Lisa's antics. And then I went on home hopefully to come back later on when Lisa is done at work so I could watch Johnnie while she finishes her notes like she usually would on Saturdays.  I grabbed a double chicken tostada salad for lunch and then knocked off for a while. And a while turned into an hour and a half. And when I woke up I get a call from Johnnie asking me to come back to the office so I could participate in a birthday cake celebration with his mom and Mama Vicky.  Which meant it was also time to pick him up. I get to spend even more time with my son after all. I hung around for the cake and some of Johnnie's green tea (LOL) and then off we went home... after a detour at Panda Express for his dinner for later. After all it was already close to 5 PM.

Immediately Johnnie asked to change to shorts and turned on Wild Kratts. This is HIS normal Saturday LOL.

I can't tell you how much it warmed my heart that when Lisa tried to tell Johnnie earlier that they had talked about how this Saturday was going to be different, he said "but I always spend Saturdays with my dad". Well of course he does. Doesn't Lisa know how quickly Johnnie can get bored sometimes? And what did I get? The pic I posted of many a familiar Saturday with Johnnie on my couch hanging out with me on it too. Of course the relative peace of that moment didn't last all that long, especially with a high-energy Johnnie wanting to wrestle around.  It used to be fun and even funny when he was a lot younger and a lot smaller. Now he can actually hurt you some especially when he got a straight kick right on my face. Maybe I can wait just a little bit longer for him to get bigger. And stronger. We were still playing around in the corner of the street when Lisa came by to pick him up. I fully realize that after tomorrow their Lisa's life will be somewhat upended when Silvia comes in from Paris.  How I am to be involved I'm not really sure and neither one of us knows quite frankly. All I do know is that i'm playing golf tomorrow morning. And watching UCLA finally become bowl eligible for the first time since the Jim Mora era tonight by getting to 6 wins. I reflected a bit on the events of today and how unroutine it turned out to be. By not having to pick up Johnnie first thing I was actually able to spend a couple of hours meditating this morning and actually doing some self-hypnosis to dig up some more older emotional blocks and subconscious resistances regarding wealth and success. Turns out there may have been more inadvertent programming that got installed when I was really young. Some stuff I remembered acutally turned into A-HA moments. I detailed some of these revelations in an earlier post. And so maybe I should be grateful that I did get some ME TIME after all. This Saturday may not have looked like the usual Saturday Johnnie and I are used to, but it turned out just fine just the same.