The Christianville Spirit
The Spirit that Brings Hope
May 13th, 2020-TCS # 687
Stay Calm, My Readers! This Dreaded Coronavirus is coming to an End Very Soon! In Case, You have lost count of Where We are at The Present Moment, Today is Wednesday May 13th of The Year 2020! Week 7 of The Dreaded Coronavirus Quarantine. Yes, That is what I said, Week Seven of Coronavirus, Quarantine, and Social Distancing. All Words that I honestly and serious hope Die of a Horrible Death then, We will Never Hear those Words again. Maybe once on New Years Eve when The Year-In-Review comes. But, It has in the Context of Laughing and “Remember when We had to Quarantine for Weeks on End, Social Distancing, and an Occasional Reminder to Wash Your Hands and 6 Feet People! 6 Feet!”. Yeah, I know, It does not seem that funny right now but, on The Other Side of 2020, It will be. Now, The Reason I say, Stay Calm, is because a lot of PTLS Family Members are having trouble making sure that They are in a Routine as Best They can as well as Handling Their Own Said Routine, and Worse, Dealing with Quarantine and Social Distancing; All Theories are Very Hard for Someone as Literal as I am to Understand, Especially when You want to Hug People and Yes, Even Talk to People. Therefore, It kind of causes a lot of Anxiety in Us PTLSers about Needing to “Social Distancing” and Stay in Quarantine. Too Much Anxiety in Us PTLSers obviously is not a Good Thing, In Fact, It causes us PTLSers and Probably Our Parents too, to have a Little Meltdown about Everything. Honestly, That is okay though! I think We need a little Meltdown every once and while, dealing with All This Dreaded Coronavirus! Let’s Get to Normal Soon, People! If All else, Turn into The Skid and Get Out and See People while being at least 6 Feet apart. If You get Sick, Get back Inside! But, as Long as You are Washing Hands a lot and Respecting 6 Feet and/or Personal Bubbles, then I would imagine that You would be Okay. Don’t want to be a Sid from The 90s TV Show Hey Arnold! where You are scared of All Germs but, You don’t want to be in Swamps picking up Frogs at the Same Time. A Reference to The Same Kid in The Same Show. It is all about Moderation, Folks! Anyway, I am re-running a Newsletter about going back to School and How Important Routine is. Enjoy!
This Newsletter was originally written on August 23rd of 2017 (Refer to Newsletter 558)
Welcome Back to School, My Readers! Okay, actually, Your Children are probably have already been told that or will be told that! Yes, It is Back to School Time! The Time when Everyone, young and old go back to School. I guess You could consider This Newsletter, School. Because I teach you things that You may not even think about. How School is that?! Get It? Just figured that I would make a Joke for those actually Going to School, both Kids and Young Adults. Young Adults can go to School too via College. Anyway, on to This Week’s Newsletter! So, Speaking of School, Going back to School means at least for us, PTLSers, that We finally get into a Nice Routine. I remember I did. I obviously talk about The Importance of Routine in My Newsletters a lot. Routine is Very Important to us PTLSers. But, Here is something that I am not sure that I have talked about or have only mentioned in Brief. Usually, I mention it at The End of an Exciting Event in My Life that I tell you. Or It is in the Newsletter after. So, What Am I talking about? Well, Like I said Routine is Important but, being Human and having Out-of-Routine Events happen. That is a Given. Like a Vacation, A Family Road Trip, A Cruise, Someone coming to Visit, or Some Kind of Adjustment to Our Routine. The Thing that makes it easier if It is Predictable, but Again, that does not happen. I am reminded of a Question of One of The PTLS Member’s Boyfriend asked me at The Conference, Being that You need Routine, How do You come down from a Routine-Changing Event? Usually, It involves what I call a Recovery from Whatever Event. My Theory is that My Recovery comes from a lot of different factors like How Big is The Event? Lots of People or a Group of People; How Much of a Difference in Routine am I dealing with? For The PTLS Conference, It was 4 Days. For My Cruise, It was a Week but, with Somewhat of a Different Routine than My Own. and, Probably, The Biggest Factor, What is The Craziness Level in This? 10 being Lots of Activity and/or Distress (or Both) or 0 being I am going out to Dinner with Friends to a Familiar Restaurant. So, How do I recover from Something like a PTLS Conference? So, once The Event ends, I describe it as Driving Very Fast on a Highway and all of a sudden, There is Nothing pushing you, Nothing left to do except Slow Down and go back to Your Routine. To Me, that basically means, that I have to Literally Slam on My Brakes and that usually causes me to Need Time to Calm Down or What I call, “Coming Down” (In Kids, It would be called a Meltdown, only They cry, scream, and kick their legs) after all The Excitement. I have one after Every Big Event that I go to. What I mean is that I am Tired Physically and Mentally. I am Overwhelmed.
Sometimes, My Excitement gets to be Too Much for Me to Handle before My Big Event is over, There have been numerous times when that happens. Two Times that I really remember, Once while at Disney World when I was Kid and Another when We were driving to a PTLS Member’s House during The Stockholm and London Trip.
After I have My “Coming Down” and Assess all of My Emotions, and Is It normal that I am having them. Then, I get into My Routine as much as I can but, Also It still takes a while to Digest, depending on The Size of The Event. PTLS Conferences (Refer to Any PTLS Conference Newsletter), Great Wolf Lodge (Refer to “Great Wolf Lodge” Newsletter), My Cruise with PTLS (Refer to “Cruise of a Lifetime” Newsletter), It took anywhere from a Week to Week and a Half to Recover. It does help to talk to My Mom about Everything, both exciting (which comes first) and then Emotional, It also helps to Listen to Soft Music (Back when The Great Wolf Lodge thing happened, I listened a Ukulele version of The New Zealand National Anthem. It is Beautiful, I recommend it!), I Take a Nap, or Watch a YouTuber driving on The Road and Listen to sounds of The Road and Bridges (I like Bridges more because They make a Better Sound). Just some Quiet Time with Little to No Activity is all I need. But, I know that all of Us PTLSers have the Same Needs like This, so I am not Alone. Only the Little Kids cannot express this well for a Parent to know what is going on, so The Parent complains of The Child’s Meltdown, not really understanding what is going on. This happened to Me when I was Little, but Good Thing, My Mom knew what to do and Still knows My Facial Expressions which She knows when I am Overwhelmed and Ready for a “Come Down”. When I was Younger, The Teachers could always tell when I had spent the Weekend with My Dad because of The Lack of Routine and Too Much Stimulation, I had My “Come Downs” Monday Mornings at School and They said, I could not focus. I would rock back and forth, hum, and Stim More intensely, and The Teachers had a Problem with getting me to re-focus. But, They knew that I would be Okay in a Day or Two and Back to My Old Self. All in all, Going back to School means a lot of Excitement both Good and Bad, We PTLSers love School, Love to watch The Kids, Just have respect for Our Need to withdraw to “Come Down”.
Thanks For Reading The Christianville Spirit. Celebrate going Back to School, Balanced with Quiet Time.
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