The best gift of all

Winter Solstice approaches...

I am as always in awe of ‘Mother Nature’ and her beauty and fierceness. I think this weather is wonderful I just want to take some time to go out and play in the snow – not snowboard, not ski, just play - sledding, making snowpeople, having snowball fights...

My Yoga class is winding down and I am trying to get it started up again for the New Year – that is when people typically want to ‘resolve’ to change their lives – hopefully many of them will try Yoga. (As an aside we have heat in my ‘private’ Yoga studio now (yea! I think...)) I need to build up my private practice too...

I have some exciting news child-wise – my son is participating in ‘Battle of the Bands’ locally so on Saturday he will play his first ‘gig’ that he arranged and pushed all by himself – together he and his band mates have sold over 70 tickets to this event I am so proud of him…

I leave that Sunday morning to go up to Michigan to help my daughter out with her ‘new’ arrival – this will be baby #3 for her...I do have mixed feelings about this as per her doctors telling her that getting pregnant again was probably not in her health’s best interest – but we shall see – it will be good to see my 2 other grandchildren and help out as much as possible – living in Ohio I don’t get to do much for her, so I am always happy to be able to when I get the chance.

This year the pace of the holiday really hasn’t affected me all that much in the way of being crazed. I just haven’t been all that interested. I got most of the gifts bought and still have some others to buy but I am relaxed and not letting myself go crazy – we put up a tree (my son and I) on Monday night and it was bitter-sweet dragging out some of the ornaments that I had shared with my ex in the past. But the tree (yes it’s fake cause I don’t believe we have the right to cut down a tree to decorate our house) – is lovely – and it was fun decorating with my son and I am only going to have so many years like this with him so it’s a blessing.

The true blessing is my children in general and it took me many years, a horrible relationship, and a real awakening to realise just how precious – it’s not that I didn’t love them – perhaps it was more of I didn’t appreciate them. As an adult, my relationship with my daughter is 10 times better than it *ever* was when she was young...I never ‘giggled’ with her we were always so on edge – now we connect on so many levels and my respect for her and the wonder of her being a mom (and a great mom at that) – are such a gift...and really with these kinds of gifts what more do I need?

Nothing, absolutely nothing...