I am a fighter, I'm driven to continue moving forward letting nothing stop or slow me. Well....ok, maybe this cold I have is slowing me down a smidge but I have still gotten out to yoga and that feels great!
I have now been to 4 classes and am in love. I love my mat time, 75 minutes to focus on myself, my goals. Yoga really teaches so much more than stretching and flexibility. That 75 minutes my mind is on one thing and that is purely breathing, living, yoga. No matter what the pose or how challenging it may be, each moment feels great and it's a moment I am both thankful for and grateful for. I modify for my shoulders sake but hope that in time I will have more range and strength in my right arm. Yoga is the first thing that lets me feel accomplished and good. Some activities really make me feel as if I failed or that I cannot do them when I realize my limit due to my arm and it's frustrating. Yoga is really relaxing, rewarding and renewing. It's something that allows me to feel a sense of long over due recovery. I also feel a sense of new found confidence having now done something outside of my comfort zone.
In the week ahead I hope to try a hot Yin class as well as a Hot Restorative. These classes are both ground work, long relaxing poses and being that they are on the ground I feel that doing a hot class under these circumstances will give me courage to do them and build from there.
Aside from feeling great with myself and enjoying the classes, I really enjoy doing it with my daughter and more recently my girlfriend just today.
This weekend I have as mentioned been battling a cold. Last week all the little ones I watch fought colds and I dreaded getting sick myself. I drank lots of water, purelled my hands, took hot Epsom salt baths and vicks vapored my chest and feet but alas this cold still came and it hangs on. Congestion is so irritating! I really dislike the congested head cold feeling, plugged ears, heavy head, stuffed nose, tickle in the back of the throat. So I continue to rest, drink Cboost to get my vitamin C, tea, chicken noodle soup and lots of water. Arius decongestant has allowed for interim relief to make it to yoga and I believe that by still going and doing yoga it's helped my body fight the cold and keep it from being really bad.
It was Thanksgiving weekend and I for one am so very thankful for so much. I am thankful for my ever supportive amazing husband with whom I love so greatly no words can express. I am thankful for my two beautiful daughters who are so wonderful and are really a breeze and so unique, I am ever the proud mother and love watching them grow and mature. I am thankful that my parents and my in-laws are all still with us, without them a piece of us would be lost, they support and love us just as we support and love them. I am grateful for my husbands grandmother that is still with us, despite our differences she adores our girls, and they adore her, time with great grandparents is a treasure. I am thankful for our close family of friends who like our family support us, they are all key people in our lives and we are fortunate to have such amazing friends. I am thankful for good health for myself, my family and friends. I am thankful for all the battles, rocks in my path and lessons, the people who have come and gone, I have had to learn as they have made me who I am now and I am grateful for every day I get to better get to know myself and continue growing. Everything no matter how big or small teaches us something daily about ourselves and what we take from these lessons makes us who we are.
I am thankful for the daily #11's I see. I say this because I have seen the #11 repeatedly since my grandmother's passing. I feel strongly that it's her way of remaining with me and letting me know she is ok. Without these daily reminders I feel that it would have been much harder dealing with the loss of her. I am thankful for moments when the song 'You are my Sunshine,' or 'Somewhere over the Rainbow' play as I feel even closer to her without the actual physical sense. I really miss her, but I am thankful she didn't have to suffer.
Last night was spent at my in-laws for dinner and we had a wonderful time, many laughs, good food, great stories and time well spent. I was sad to not spend thanksgiving with my sister and her family as well as my parents. It's sad and hard to be so far away from my sister and nieces. My girls and my husband and I are all missing out on seeing them grow and evolve as little ladies, and I miss time spent with my sister. I am thankful for the time we do spend together though and I look forward to it immensely.
It has been a wonderful albeit a very relaxing weekend. Lovingly spent with my husband, girls, in-laws, friend and my mind of memories and those I wish I had with me to spend time with this past weekend. I am grateful for each moment I have here on earth spent with those who matter most.
Today My Name Is Thankful
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