Life Back in Seattle

We have been enjoying returning to our usual lives after a two week hiatus. Two weeks is a long time to be away. We all treasured the time with Dad and Philia and other family and friends. Another gift of such a long time away is that we really appreciate our everyday lives that we'd left behind. For Rob and me, a favorite aspect of our lives is doing yoga every morning. Usually we're able to do yoga together, but sometimes separately, like this morning, when Jasper and I slept in an hour and a half beyond Rob's 5:30 am wakeup. Jasper is almost always with us for the yoga, sometimes laying on top of one of us or doing a pose of his own, but most frequently just playing or looking at a book in the general vicinity. For the first 6 and 1/2 years of parenthood, I would have told you that my kid/s kept me from doing yoga. What I see now is that once we established a true routine of doing yoga first thing, the kids were actually quite adaptive. Little nibbly snacks help... Lucy is usually asleep, but when she's awake, she just sits on the couch reading or playing with Jasper. Of course, the most challenging pose for them is the relaxation at the end - poetically and aptly named after a corpse, where we lay like dead people before getting up and getting on with our day. Of course, you can see how this is both unsettling and just too tempting, especially for Jasper . He just has to get on top of us and snuggle. And that might be my favorite part...