Well, today was one for the books. Without my husband the afternoon was an insane game of Tetris. But I made it work!
– At 2pm I left to pick up my daughter early from her camp, which is in possibly the worst location in the city (for us anyways).
– We got her blood drawn. They took 11 vials! And she had to pee in a cup.
– We picked up my son across the city at his camp.
– We hit up Safeway for some snacks because they would both be having long afternoons.
– I dropped my son at the dojo, found an incredible parking spot, then walked my daughter to Dolores Park for the Trans March (which she was walking with a friend).
– I walked back down to the dojo to assist (I would have nixed the dojo on a day like this but my son’s best friend was trying it out for the first time and I thought we should be there). My son and I wore masks and my son HATED it. It’s been a long time.
– I picked up pupusas from my favorite vendors in front of the church across the street. They are only sometimes there and I almost always get them when they are. Three for $10 and so good! You can’t beat that.
– I drove my son home. Put my husband’s pupusa’s on a plate and brought them to his den of germs (with a mask on of course), started my son’s dinner, then high tailed it out of the house to head to BART.
– I took a BART train downtown to pick up my daughter from the end of the Trans March. I for a train there and we caught a train back quickly, which was no small feat.
– I made the kids dinner and did the dishes. I brought my husband stuff and cleared stuff from his space. I made the couch bed up to sleep in the living room.
– And now I’m having a drink and watching the new season of Black Mirror.
It was a nuts day but I made it all happen. Some days I even surprise myself.
This weekend we have tickets to the Ansel Adams exhibit at the de Young on Saturday (which were free because members, but the exhibit will be gone by the time we’re done traveling, so I’m not sure yet if we’ll go). And the Pride Parade on Sunday, though I haven’t thought enough about how to pull that off with only one parent. We shall see.
We’ll obviously be sticking close to home and wearing masks when we’re out. I definitely need a couple days of down time after today and I think the kids need the same. I’m hoping my husband’s man-COVID eases up over the weekend, because I don’t really have the bandwidth to take care of him on top of everything else.
Just caught up on your two posts from yesterday. WOW you fit a weekend’s worth of activities into one afternoon!
I’m hoping very hard for you that this is the shortest course of COVID ever and that your vacation will go well without further hitches.
We know folks who planned to travel with a pack of kids four times this summer, I am not built for that much travel. I am doing enough in therapy to reduce my many anxieties about travel thankfully but COVID is still (obviously) an issue but you’re right, so many people act like it doesn’t exist now. I hate that part of travel.
Simply WOW!!!!
Hahaha, your husband’s man-COVID. That made me laugh out loud, K!