Tai Chi...

I love it, but man, it can be hard to do with toddlers around. No way to keep the mental state you're supposed to be keeping. But that's okay. I was still able to do the routine, and it was funny to see the kiddos trying to play along. Even the DVD instructor (David-Dorian Ross) would likely have laughed to see Calla so solemnly doing "opening the door" with her own little ball.

(The DVD kit came with a very slightly weighted ball, just enough that by the end, you can definitely feel that you were using your muscles through the workout - but not so heavy that you had to grip the ball or lost the fluidity of motion.)

I hadn't done Tai Chi in a while, but I'm very glad to be resuming it. My back feels so much better.

And a bit from the past...

Edited out - darnit. The vid is friend only, and I had hoped to let others see it by embedding (it's a vid of Calla, so it's not like I'm trying to post something I shouldn't).

Oh well. It's darn cute. Maybe I'll see if it can be made public.

What we saw the other day...

The sleeping skills of kiddos amaze me. How can they do that? And yet not sleep when you want them to?

Happy New Year!

May it be a blessed one!

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In the past year:

Patrick has turned 3.
He speaks in complete sentences, expresses understanding of past and future events, understandably expresses and initiates make-believe play and is getting so much more coherent.
He has expressed enthusiastic joy and "I did it!" zeal over having "put the ewww in the potty". (Here's hoping for more success with the potty!)

Calla has turned 2.
She is creative, opinionated and stubborn -- err, assertive and persistent.

Both are sympathetic toward each other (and other people), and will readily share or give things to the other. Most of the time. ;)

I turned 35. I don't really feel any different about that. However, something "clicked" this year - suddenly, I get the domestic thing. The house is tidy and clean, laundry has stayed caught up for several weeks now, and I'm finding joy in cooking *real* not-a-meal-from-a-box meals. I feel so much more at peace in the house, and content - more so than in quite some time.

The hubby seems to be more content as well. It could help having cars to work on, LOL - doesn't matter if they're his father's, just so he has cars to tinker with. It's in the genes, I hear, and Patrick has definitely picked up the automotive DNA.

So, I'll finish my glass of wine (Sweet Rodeo Red - Los Pinos Ranch Vineyards), crackers, cheese and little chocolate balls and toast a new year in. As soon as I get the girl more juice. :D

Happy New Year!

This? Just funny.

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Merry Christmas (a day early!)

May all of you have a blessed Christmas and new year.

Wake the echoes loud with cheering...

Oh, and Mount Union won their game. :)

Happy alumna here.