{I cannot figure out how to get the Daniel Craig SNL gif (referenced in the title) into this post so I’ll just link to it here. Boo.}
I went into the this weekend with lowered expectations, and I was pleasantly surprised!
Friday started rough. The news cycle about the super spreader event in Massachusetts, where tons of vaccinated people passed the virus on to other vaccinated people, really bummed me out. My anxiety spiked so high that I went out and got more CBD drops to help manage it. I have been taking CBD for a while, but when I ran out at the beginning of the summer I wasn’t in a big hurry to restock. On Friday morning, that apathy dissipated and I bought myself a new bottle. Three days later, I do think it’s helping.
Another thing that that helped was getting an email with the news that the basketball camp at my school ended last week so the migration of staff room stuff to the new space can begin soon. I’m going down tomorrow to help get everything from the old staff room to the new staff room, and then I can start bringing my stuff over. I am SO RELIEVED to have a timeline on moving my classroom.
The rest of Friday went well. I gave myself more than enough time to go to IKEA and run on Treasure Island, which means I had just enough time to do both (I’ve learned to add 30+ minutes to my estimation of how long something will take, which means I left for the East Bay a full hour before I thought I really needed to and that gave me exactly the time I needed. Living with ADHD strategies for the win!)
The sun was out on that side of the bay and it was so nice to be out running in it. But as I ran, I could see that my side of the city was mired in fog, and I realized that maybe people in less foggy parts of the city were having a completely different summer than I was, frustrated and bummed out in my fog bank. I feel like there is some deeper metaphor available here, about remembering that the fog might not cover the whole world like you think it does when you’re in it… but I’m too tired on Monday morning to come up with it.
Saturday morning started with breakfast in the backyard and Sunday evening ended with dinner there too, which I really think helped make the weekend bearable. The sunshine we got DEFINITELY helped. My kids were insistent on staying home all weekend. They’ve been so busy for the past month and they really wanted a full 48 hours to decompress. I am usually loathe to indulge this impulse because it almost always ends badly, but I did recognize how much they’ve been doing and I promised them they could stay home. And they did! We made them spend 2-3 hours in the backyard each day which I think was the key to making it work. In the past (this would have been pre-pandemic) when they asked for a weekend at home we didn’t utilize the backyard because it was an apocalyptic nightmare that gave me panic attacks at mere glance. Now that we’ve excavated the usable space, and have 16 months of practice being out there, it makes a “stay home all weekend” really doable. And again, I can’t stress how helpful the sunshine was each of these days. We didn’t get sunshine in our backyard all week, so two days of it was very much appreciated.
Saturday night I got to escape our self-imposed stay-at-home order to see my good friend who was in town unexpectedly (she was supposed to be at her parents’ cabin but ended up at her parents’ house). It was so nice to see her, and her kids, again after such a long hiatus. It also kept me from going crazy at home all weekend – I think I need to plan an escape for myself when my kids want to lounge around for two straight days.
I also got some stuff done, and I will write more about that tomorrow, because my husband was kind enough to move his work stuff upstairs today so I can go through my clothes downstairs, and he probably would be a little frustrated if I spent an hour writing a blog post.
It’s nice to know that, with a little sunshine, our kids can make it through 48 hours at home. I know we did this for weeks at a time at the start of the pandemic, but we relied a lot more heavily on screen time then. Now they can read, and play, and listen to podcasts, and do art projects to pass more of the time. I’ll definitely be more inclined to let them stay home like this in the future.
Oh, and the icing on the cake this weekend was that Sunday my rug came! I was not expecting that, so it was a very pleasant surprise. And I love it just as much as I was hoping to. It really does bring the room together.
How was your weekend?
Hurrah4 TI, ikea, SUNSHINE, more grown up kids who’re more independent, progress re classroom,AND clothes sort! Wow what great accomplishments. Super impressed.
My county is scary numbers esp as so many vaccinated. I’d vote flexible attitude what happens with schools, investing in home testing kits, trying to set up contingency plan if yours r ok but classroom put in quarantine, cause right it the look is bad.
But take huge bow over all undid this weekend,
Amazing how a rug can change the whole look of a room – love it! I think I bought the same rug (different colors) when we redid my daughter’s bedroom last month.