Happy New Year! I thought for the first day of 2003, I should probably make a blog entry. We've had a super busy holiday season. We celebrated The Husband's 41st birthday, went to a holiday party, left the kids with someone other than my mother for the first time (a good friend and then their grandfather and uncle) and it went great and generally had a great couple of weeks.

One of the things I've had laying around in the crevices of my mind is exploring teaching yoga in a number of years. I don't believe anyone should teach yoga who hasn't had their own practice for at least 4 years so I'm talking 4 years from now but one of the things I wondered about was my ability to be in front of a class calling out and counting asanas. Yesterday I got to test myself a bit and it was really interesting and fun. I went to the gym to do my own practice when, at the end of the standing postures, people started coming in. I had looked at the schedule and knew there wasn't another class so I asked what was going on... they thought there was another class and were not aware it had been canceled. I playfully said that they "could join me" but they weren't practicing ashtanga and didn't want to. As they were leaving another woman came in who does practice ashtanga sometimes. She was sad because she had hired a babysitter so she could practice and her face fell when she found out there wasn't a class. I repeated that I was doing my own practice but that she could join me. She explained that she didn't know the sequence so, from somewhere, I just said "Well, I can start over and call out the postures but I'm no teacher." To my surprise, she was excited about this and another lady decided to join us. I ended up not only calling out the postures but also counting them and doing a little instruction for a couple postures. I think I did pretty damned good for not being anywhere near an instructor and they seemed to like it. It was fun and illuminating for me.

To celebrate the New Year we joined some neighbors for dinner and though I drank a bit too much on an empty stomach after a two hour yoga practice, we had a great time. All the kids ate together then played upstairs for hours while we played some DVD game called Scene It! I sucked :) at it. I just missed seeing midnight by a few minutes as I fell asleep while putting The Daughter to bed... ah well, I haven't seen midnight on New Year's Eve since having children.

Happy New Year to all.