Perseverence

I realize that I already have a previous post with the same title. I chose to do a repeat of perseverence, however, because I believe that I failed to actually explain why I chose the title "perseverence" in the first place.

It all started back in the Dancing for Birth class. The instructor spread out a deck of affirmation cards in the middle of us four ladies. She told us to pick a card that spoke to us and to create an affirmation for ourselves with that word. The first word that jumped out to me was perseverence. After initially catching my eye, I decided to glance at all the other cards just to see if any of them spoke out to me. After carefully eyeing the whole deck of cards, my eyes wandered back to that original first word-perseverence. Before my mind really had time to process the meaning of that word and why it would speak out to me and what my affirmation could be, it was my turn to share with the group. So I winged it. My affirmation was "I persevere with steadfastness and confidence." I am still trying to digest exactly what that's supposed to mean to my life and how it would benefit me to apply it. But I do know that maybe I could start affirming it and just see what changes come about.

Today is the second day of the Hindu festival, Diwali-the Festival of Lights. In honor of the Hindu New Year, I decided to take part in the tradion by cleaning my house. Because as the story goes...Laskmi comes to the cleanest homes first. I swept out the dusty, stagnant corners and washed the nooks and crannys. As I did this, I said "I am cleaning out the corners of my mind." I enjoyed all the progress I was making as Jude slept peacefully and angelically in his "race car seat" aka car seat.

Tomorrow is the New Moon. We will celebrate! Yes yes indeed.

It was also suggested by my pagan calendar (my source for the Diwali info) to purchase new clothes to wear on the New Moon. Not completely intentional, however, not necessarily by chance either, I received a beautiful new red jacket, and Judah got a green dragon costume. I was debating on whether or not to get it for him for Halloween/Samhain because I already had a costume for him, but the downfall was that it was too large. So we were cruising around Costco with the dragon hat on and everybody thought it was adorable, and he fell asleep with it on, and chewed up the tag...so we bought it! Looks like Jude might be wearing something special for the New Moon along with his mom in her new red jacket. The whole time I kept reminiscing the time I was cleaning my room and I decided to put on my red rain jacket and my red rain boots. I thought I looked so cute. I had to run and have my mom take a picture of me so we could look back and remember how cute I looked.

It was a pleasant day overall. I went to Mom and Baby Yoga at the library and did 30 minutes of downward dog and cobra for the 3 of us gals! The class is really expanding. Today she played music for the first time since I've been going and I just kept thinking in astonishment "I can't believe we've gone all this while without music." I had never even noticed it until that point- when we had the music. So I guess I can make a new saying to go along with "You don't know what you've got til it's gone," well...sometimes you don't know what ya don't got, til ya got it!".....that's all folks!