Middle of the Bed

This past week, I made a conscious effort to sleep in the middle of the bed every night. I started doing this right after the wasband left, but over time, I have gravitated back to one side of the bed. Because a certain someone had been invading my dreams, I thought maybe I just needed some sort of change of pace and thought maybe the dreams would go away. Moving to the middle of the bed worked! He stayed out of my dreams all week and I actually slept. It was very nice to get a week of restful sleep. I'm hoping the trend continues....

Maybe sleeping in the middle of the bed offered me a bit of balance in my sleep. Balance is something that I am attempting to restore in my life. I figure this may be a good thing - especially considering the next belly dance prop I am thinking of purchasing. I am looking into getting a balancing sword to use when dancing. I think it will go well with a piece of music I am playing around with as well as improve my posture/movement isolation during dance. We'll see. Even though the blade is dulled, hopefully I don't injure myself with it... =)

Another aspect of balance concerns dance as well. We have a lot of upcoming performances and I hope that I don't burn out because of all of them. While I still love dance class and performing, I don't want it to become one more thing in my life that I feel like I have to do. Plus, as Mom pointed out today, if I keep going full speed ahead with everything, I'm going to get injured and then where will I be? I'll have to take time off of work possibly and take time off of dancing..... So, my best bet, would be not to get injured, right? =)

Aside from all of the upcoming dancing, I have lots going on at work this week. We have our big Mother's Day celebration this coming Friday and rather than go the traditional Mother's Day "tea party" route, my classroom is having a luau for our Mom's. We are hoping/praying for lots of sunshine so we can have the event on the playground and can use the sandbox. The alternative of having an indoor luau just isn't as appealing in my opinion. =) We'll just have to wait and see if the weather decides to cooperate with all of our plans or not...

Well, since I am working on finding balance in different aspects, I am going to work on a list of items that I am going to accomplish for the luau this week as well as things that I am going to ask my co-teacher if she can accomplish. See, balance! =) We'll see if the list turns out lopsided to my side or not.... I'm a work in progress, okay?? =) Have a great week!!