Me: “Time for lights out.”
Little Miss Thing, age 7: (keeps reading)
Me: “I can see you reading.”
LMT: (keeps reading)
Me: “Lights out. For real.”
LMT: (keeps reading)
Me: “Time for sleep. Book down now. Go to sleep.”
LMT: (keeps reading)
Me: “It would be nice to be acknowledged.”
LMT: “You know what would be nice? Reading uninterrupted.”
Me: …
Me: (turns off the light, heads downstairs)
Me: “Goodnight, kiddo.”
LMT: “You’re mean!”
Me: “I love you, too.”
I’ve been looking for a good intro yoga series, so I tried Yoga with Adriene today.
I did Day 1 – Ease Into It and it nearly killed me.
To be clear, I followed along the first maybe 18 minutes of the 35 min video. I physically couldn’t do about half the poses, but I got as close as I could. After maybe 8 minutes I was out of breath (planking is hard at 400lb.)
It was ugly… really ugly.
But it’s a start.
Maybe I’ll try an easier one, like her Complete Beginners video.
Little Miss Thing, age 7, walks up shuffling a deck of cards.
LMT: “Daddy, pick a card.”
Me: “Hmmm… Let me see… I’ll choose… this one.”
LMT: (shuffles cards intently for 30 seconds)
LMT: “Sorry, you lose.” (walks away)
Me: …
Very Vocal Viking 