This weekend was to be busy. Very, very busy. Jon was to be out of town at an important annual conference, Calvin was to participate in his first ever dance competition and Dexter's annual all-band concert. For me it was to be a study in time and stress management, pulled by the needs of a young dog and a performing child, and the parent volunteer requirements of the two performance organizations of the weekend. I had mostly worked out the schedule, I had planned out the meals and the drop offs and the pick ups and even left time for laundry.
This weekend was still a study in time and stress management, but in a very different way. Setting up home work stations, organizing the pantry and freezer goods for optimization of use, and scheduling the numerous online lessons and gatherings to avoid overlapping. It's almost funny how quickly we went from an empty calendar to a very complicated one. Before isolation we had carefully scheduled Jon's lessons to overlap all of Calvin's lessons and other activities in order to maximize our time at home together. Great planning during normal times, but in isolation times, in a standard size suburban home, it doesn't work well to overlap a piano lesson and a bassoon lesson, or a piano lesson and a choir practice.
We're getting it worked out, though, and after some calendar shifting and some reorganizing of space in our home, we are ready to ride this out sheltering in place.
