I love Wednesdays

Today is definitely my favourite day of the week. Henry spends the a.m. in school, as usual. After lunch, I put the kids in our super-groovy new double stroller and walk over to a local community centre for activities! In a stroke of brilliant scheduling, this place offers a post-natal, mommy & me yoga class at the same time as a drop-off program for preschoolers. A miracle! Even better, the preschool class goes half an hour longer than yoga, so I can enjoy a coffee in relative peace at the nearby Starbucks before we all head home.

I like everything about the afternoon. The walk is beautiful--along a low-traffic road that runs up the hill from the canal, with views of the water. It's far enough to be a workout in its own right, especially when you're pushing a double stroller. Just having something to do would be great, but we actually really like the classes, too. The yoga is much more of a challenge than I was expecting. All the babies in the room make it hard to concentrate, and I usually have to stop what I'm doing at least once a class to tend to Dexter, but I do get a workout. And Henry LOVES the playgroup, primarily because the instructor is a dude. If you've spent time around Henry, you know that he much prefers the company of guys. If you put him in a room with 10 strangers (like, say, an airport departure gate), 9 of whom are smiling, friendly women who clearly love small children and are actively trying to get his attention by offering candy, and 1 of whom is a young guy wearing headphones and sunglasses, Henry will go talk to the guy every time. So he is very happy to have a guy leading playtime. Plus, all the other kids in the class happen to be boys, so it ends up being 2 hours of dinosaur role playing and dogpiles on the activity mats. Good times.

In short, Wednesdays make me feel like I'm living my yuppie maternity leave dream to the fullest.