Vivian's spring break starting today

I had a lesson before I head to horseshoe bay to pick up Vivian. Today is her first day of spring break. I am going to have a few days of fun with my teenage daughter. We have been talking about going to yoga together. As anyone who has teenage at home, we all have learned not to make assumption or have expectation. I am so used to her plugging in her iPod and we would have fairly simple conversation then she will be immersed in her music and lots of text messages with her friends.

Vivian slips into the car and first thing she said was "Oh, mom, YOU LOOK SO GOOD! What happened to you? You are so different and you are glowing. Your skin looks so amazing. What did you do? What's going on? You look amazing! I feel that I need to get to know you again. I love you!..." I was quite stunned. I have not heard so many good compliments come out of Vivian all at once and so passionately (maybe when she was 4). I just ran out my yoga class, no time for shower, I don't even know what shape my hair was in. My skin?! Well, I have just used the towel provided to wipe off my sweats and not even a wash. Glowing? I peeked into the rear view mirror trying to see if there is any miracle. I am radiating?

We had such good time chatting together driving down the highway heading back to downtown. The topic was mostly about the yoga, what we are going to do together this weekend and how much yoga we are going to do together. Vivian is so looking forward to tonight's session.

To tell the truth, before I picked her up or even a few days ago, I was fully prepared not to overwhelm her about doing yoga with me. I will certainly encourage her to try the yoga, so I was planning to get her unlimited pass and show her the 2 locations in downtown. She might take a lesson with me out of courtesy then she would be encouraged to go try her own lessons without me. No, I was wrong. She is excited to do the lessons with me and I AM SO HAPPILY SURPRISED. The Sun is just getting brighter by the minute. I am feeling absolutely awesome. NO exaggeration here at all. We zipped home. Get changed and went out to have a bite to eat at Yopo. Vivian loved the food there. We stroll over to Yyoga to get Vivian registered and acquainted there. Tania was there and she gave Vivian a very warm welcome. My worry about Vivian would be embarrassed to be seen with her mom is goooooooooone. She was delighted the whole time. We zipped home again. Went to her orthodontists appointment, went to Lululemon's original store in Kits to pick up some sports bras. Zipped to our very first Yoga class together and of course it is Anusara class. Trish is teach the Friday evening class. It is perfect because I have never taken a lesson from Trish and that is something I could share with Vivian as our very first. She thoroughly enjoyed the class and she did very well. I was so thrilled to hear that she really really liked the class. We picked up our leftovers from lunch and headed out to the street in the night. We headed to Robson and picking the leftover from the box. It was some Shanghai noodle and we were using our hands. It tastes soooooo good that way. Vivian had a little concern about our manner and I laughed and said "thank goodness we are not famous. We have total freedom to eat while we walk and not to worry someone might recognize us. It is great to be nobody." I holding my hand really wide like a Yoga pose and enjoyed that freedom. We had good chuckles and strolling down the street and ended up in Chapters. Vivian was in 7th's Heaven. She loves read and we stayed there till there is announcement about store closing. Grabbed a few books and we walked out with high spirits. I introduced her to the little "hole in the wall" which sells amazing Eastern Meditterannean food (Shawarma I believe). $6.25 and weighed like a lead in your hand. Vivian took a bite and exhaled in excitement "AMAZING, BEST EVER!" She ate the whole thing in a few blocks of walking on Granville heading home (about 10 pm at night, Granvill still quite lively. Oh, I love Vancouver, something magic in the air all the time.).

I don't know why I am writing blog now. Is it to keep a log about my yogi life? Is it a took to keep me motivated. A training log. So far, it has been hand in hand with my yoga practice and I seems to have a lot to write about. About my new findings, about the changes in me, about whatever. I am enjoying this.

Good night!