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back from travels
Sep. 3rd, 2024 11:37 amCurrently I am at my kitchen table, clearly I have given up on working at the moment. On my third, inadvisable, cup of coffee while my kid is drawing an illustration for a book across from me.
This is my first day back at work after about 3 weeks and it is rough. Particularly since we have no child care today and everyone wants to meet with me since I've been out most of August.
The travels were more than I've done in a long time and certainly the weirdest mix all together. First Ohio for 9 days, and I mean rural Ohio, we're not talking Cleveland. From there it was back to Seattle for 23 hours, then a flight to Stockholm where I was plunged immediately into a 3 day 14-hour day work offsite. Highlights include beautiful scenery and losing my phone in a rollercoaster (reader, it was retrieved safely).
Next was Milan for a whirlwind of eating food and aperitivi with my brother.
Now back home and preparing for back to school while also attempting to get back on track for work. I do not recommend combining all of these.
But I can't complain, I did get a vacation in the end and it's more about me having a hard time context switching.
The ADHD is getting more difficult to deal with. Husband K in particular has a lot of trouble. What's funny is he is so exactly like B, but I think that makes it harder for him to deal with it effectively or empathetically somehow.
We are supposed to try and get a learning plan in place which I have mixed feelings about mainly because I feel the main issues aren't at school but at home. But maybe making school easier to manage will make home easier to manage? I don't know.
All I know is I was supposed to spend time thinking about all of this while on vacation and I thought about none of it and I very much enjoyed that but I now feel overwhelmed at having to think of it all on my return. I need a better system for keeping up with life while on vacation in a way that doesn't consume me.
This is my first day back at work after about 3 weeks and it is rough. Particularly since we have no child care today and everyone wants to meet with me since I've been out most of August.
The travels were more than I've done in a long time and certainly the weirdest mix all together. First Ohio for 9 days, and I mean rural Ohio, we're not talking Cleveland. From there it was back to Seattle for 23 hours, then a flight to Stockholm where I was plunged immediately into a 3 day 14-hour day work offsite. Highlights include beautiful scenery and losing my phone in a rollercoaster (reader, it was retrieved safely).
Next was Milan for a whirlwind of eating food and aperitivi with my brother.
Now back home and preparing for back to school while also attempting to get back on track for work. I do not recommend combining all of these.
But I can't complain, I did get a vacation in the end and it's more about me having a hard time context switching.
The ADHD is getting more difficult to deal with. Husband K in particular has a lot of trouble. What's funny is he is so exactly like B, but I think that makes it harder for him to deal with it effectively or empathetically somehow.
We are supposed to try and get a learning plan in place which I have mixed feelings about mainly because I feel the main issues aren't at school but at home. But maybe making school easier to manage will make home easier to manage? I don't know.
All I know is I was supposed to spend time thinking about all of this while on vacation and I thought about none of it and I very much enjoyed that but I now feel overwhelmed at having to think of it all on my return. I need a better system for keeping up with life while on vacation in a way that doesn't consume me.