Time off

Even though I have another paper due Friday, we had the most amazingly mellow few days off - I feel like a real person - yesterday I took the kids to Anita's for Cyrus' birthday - great to hang out and then in the afternoon we went to a multimedia exhibit at a local art gallery - of Inman square - featuring us! - videotaped during our Halloween trip to the fire station - fun and mesmerizing for Kalian and Liam to watch three screens at once.

Today, I actually hung out at Liam's preschool, got to pick him, as well as Kalian up at co-op - which I have never done - gulp. I practiced yoga at home with Liam and Kalian buzzing about - which is what I really want - for them to see mama taking care of her body and herself and hopefully encouraging Liam to practice a bit - but it was Kalian that was doing sun salutes - it was too cute. Then, the whole family headed off to swim at a local pool - for family swim - ok, it was mostly pulling the kids around in the water. They all had fun - i was a freezing wimp, but it felt SO great to do something together. An all around mellow day. It was exactly what I wanted - and one of the millions of threads in a three hour conversation Chris and I had last night - we just never have the time - didn't really resolve any of our major life issues but felt great to connect.