A couple times in recent weeks Chris has said something to me along the lines of “remember earlier in the pandemic when you would spend a couple hours a day on your mat?” And well, yes and no. There was a stretch there where everything was in a freeze frame and the resolution on a couple of things was extra high. Like kids had NOTHING happening. Like Wilfred took two naps a day. Like there was really nowhere to comfortably go, not indoors, anywhere. And also, there was a sudden influx of access.
That seems like a bygone era in many regards, even though much stays the same today. Now, of course, the kids are doing more stuff, but the thrill of it is muted since I am relegated to the car and prohibited access to my former specatatorship. And I don’t like bringing Wilfred into many places. Not really.
So I do a lot of shuttling and and a lot of squeezing tasks, activities, lessons, study, and practices into skinny envelopes of time. Between the hours of 1:30 and 4pm tend to be extra freaking dicey as wilfs is napping (generally) and maple needs to be picked up and eider sometimes as well, either that or delivered somewhere and Chris is in his office working and well the balance of all of the things is extra precarious and variable and yet not so much flexible really. At all.
Today was one of those days where I wanted to slide into a class with Christina at 3 but needed to pick up Maple at 2:45 and Chris was going to leave with her again for swim team just before 4 and Eider was game to help but wilfs awoke as I was walking out the door and wouldn’t settle for anything other than coming with me for pick up so of course we were late and then wanted to nurse once we were back home again and well I slid in to class about 30 minutes after its start. Which is wildly tacky and yet perfectly natural in the land of zoom yoga and it just got me feeling very grateful for all of the options that do exist, especially in combo with everyone’s actual flexibility and generosity.
So while weekdays I land on my mat for something in the window of 20-60 minutes- and that is a unicorn treat- I can indeed remember earlier in the pandemic when I could practice for several hours a day multiple times a week. I don’t think that was really an ideal scenario for anyone. Those were pretty sad times. I mean these are still sad times but maybe not quite so sad. So less is more, in other words. Right. And like I have said 1000x, I am in the practice of taking what I can get when it comes to something for meeeeeee.