Wemberly Worried

One of my favorite children's books is called Wemberley Worried. It's about a little mouse (Wemberley) who worried about going to school and through out the whole book the author writes, "Don't worry," said her mother. "Don't worry," said her father. But Wemberley worried.

I bring this up because I think about those lines every time I begin to worry myself. My worries generally correlate with my incessant need to have control over every aspect of my life and not allow God to interfere. However, the fact that I have become more aware of this correlation has been truly exciting in my life over the past several months, in particular. It has allowed me to begin freeing myself of that incessant need and to simply trust in the fact that God, karma, goodness, faith, and the positive energies that I emit into the world will come back to greet and take care of me, giving me exactly what I need at exactly the right time.

Case in point...I have a sweet picture of Kathleen and Surya on the mirror in my room. I see it every morning when I wake up and many other times through out the day. I miss them terribly (Andy included in that equation)! I had a tentative plan to visit them during my Spring Break, but started to fret about high flight prices and the budget that I'm living on. In the past couple weeks, I felt that that thought had become more and more of a fading hope. I worried about when I would see them next. I just don't want to go for many, many months not being able to see Surya grow up.

This morning, I noticed a text on my phone from Andy. They both want to attend a conference next weekend (in the bay area) and wondered if I might be able to come out to San Fran to watch Surya while they're gone during the daytime. At first, I started to worry! Can you believe it?! Me either! I wondered, do I have enough days to take Friday off? Will I have to spend any money? Is it a good idea to leave my class? And almost immediately after those questions started firing, I thought, of course I should go! God has laid out an opportunity for me to give up control (in terms of my need to have a set schedule...it's a bit spontaneous considering it's a week and a half away) and has given me yet another example of how I should be more open and trusting. Andy and Kaki crunched some numbers...it's going to cost more for them to pay a babysitter for the whole weekend than to just fly me out and BONUS, Surya gets to spend time with his auntie (I mean I get to spend time with my sweetie nephew boy)!!

In the meantime, I randomly checked out flights for Spring Break to go back out to San Fran and (thinking they would be insane), I ended up finding one for $160! That is practically unheard of these days.

SO, in the end of the story, Wemberley realizes that she didn't need to spend so much time worrying in the first place, as everything worked out the way it was supposed to.

Back to School

The kids and I are in the midst of our first week back from break.  I don't know about them, but I'm flippin' exhausted!  I've gone home each day this week to my ever so inviting bed for a long cat nap...and I've slept like a baby every night!

My break was really nice...very relaxing and low key.  I was nervous about the ten day trip to Dallas (only because I wasn't sure about ten days with mom), but all went better than expected.  The small version of our family (mom, dad, me, and Jodi) had a really nice time together.  I enjoyed cooking, being quite lazy, practicing a little yoga at my old studio, reading, and seeing my girlfriends.

It was nice to get back to Colorado though.  I was glad to have some time to hang out here without having to be in the scurry of work mode.  I went to Winter Park with a group of friends (who I work with) and we had a blast!  I skied on Saturday and had my first try at snowboarding on Sunday.  I loved it!  I decided to "be the skier/snowboarder" as my mom always advised us about anything new or scary we tried and it worked out quite well.  I figured that if I just throw myself into it, I'd have more fun trying that way...and I did!

Anyway, I'm off to teach this morning.  It's been really nice to be back with my kids...I really love my class and truly missed them over the past couple of weeks.

Here are a couple pics from Winter Park:

Here's to a Happy New Year!  May good things come to each of us!

Much love!