Nice practice today. I got up in plenty of time to have a complete practice, though I had to go upstairs at one point because Charlie's phone alarm was going off and he wasn't hearing it. While I was up there, Nora woke with a bad dream, so I snuggled with her for a while. I noticed myself feeling torn while I was with her--the slightly OCD part of my brain that hates incompleteness was thinking "I have to get back downstairs! I still have the meditation to do!", but the other part was really enjoying being with her in that moment. So I went with that. And then it turned out that I still had plenty of time to finish before anyone else got up, so win-win. Again, though, losing my patience with her would have been worse for everyone, and I'm sure it wouldn't have improved the quality of my meditation, either.
Forgot to mention something about yesterday's class. The first sort of emotional thing that happened was Crow pose. Crow is scary to me, but yesterday we had a small class and I asked Donna to help me. I didn't do very well the first time, but then we did it again, and I tried to just go with it, and i did it--just for a second, but I got how it was supposed to feel. Now I really want to practice Crow so I can get it in my body.
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