Spring!

Spring is springing as usual around here, going from this:

To this in the course of a couple days. But that's OK! We'll take it!!
That's a fine-lookin' snow cat, dontcha think?

I had my second weekend of yoga teacher training last weekend, which was again so enjoyable and rejuvenating for me. I need to set aside some scheduled study time, though. Let's just say I'm not good at getting it done at home. I'm enjoying getting to know some of my classmates a bit. It will take time, but it will be fun uncovering their stories over the next months! I'm looking forward to being connected to a wider community of yogi-minded folks around here. And again it is so nice to be able decompress and discuss with Jenn. We see eye to eye on so many areas.

Unfortunately, the yoga weekend was book-ended by barfing children: M4 (starting early) last Friday morning and M3 last night. Poor things! We haven't had any barfing flus for so long around here...literally years...so they were both miserable. They both stopped the upchucking in about 8 or 9 hours, though. M3 had the lucky break of missing school, but for M4 there was no school anyway last Friday. Life is so unfair!

Whew!!

Well, both kids are back to school today, thank goodness!! My patience was starting to wear thin with the whining and sniveling... (I'm such a nice mom). So M3 was diagnosed with strep on her birthday, although it manifested more as scarlet fever with a horrible, itchy rash. Twenty four hours on antibiotics and she's as good as new. M4 had a mystery illness. He's been harboring a cold for a while, but he claimed to feel "horrible" yesterday morning. No fever, but we let him stay home although we were convinced he really just wanted to stay home like his sister. But at 10:30am, he fell asleep for more than two hours which is weird for him. After he woke up, he was basically back to normal. Ah, the mystery of the human body!

Winter storm watch here this evening...

Uh oh

M4 has what appears to be a small case of the pukes. He seems to be much better now...at least he's running around making explosion noises and talking about "Dark" Vader. He spent the morning playing at friend's. Hope he doesn't pass the germs along!

M3 and I left at 7:15 a.m. for the second-to-last swim meet. It was an hour away in Knoxville. She scorched the competition in the medley relay! Her team was quite behind. She anchored with the freestyle and just blew past everyone! It was so cool to see. I think they came in second. She seemed kind of tired in her individual events, and then they did well in their freestyle relay, too.

I really just want her to have fun and not feel pressured. The kids I knew who started getting too serious about ballet at a young age burned out young, too. I hope this is something she can have fun with for a long time. Winning helps with the fun factor, of course, but I don't want her to feel too serious about it.

On a separate note, it was definitely the HOTTEST pool room I've been. I thought I was going to pass out...