Acupuncture on Thursday; mindfulness and children

I have been having a lot of trouble sleeping lately.  I know some of this is related to being pregnant, and some of it is related to my ridiculous heartburn.  However, it's definitely making me feel quite off.  It's like I have restless leg syndrome in my arms.
Anyway, I had acupuncture yesterday, and I started feeling like that while I was on the table.  It is quite difficult to deal with because it's not like you can really get up and move around a lot while you have needles in you.  I really tried to just accept my discomfort.  It wasn't easy, but I made an effort.

My other exercise in mindfulness occurred later on in the day.  I went into my son's bedroom to see what he was up to.  He's four, and really a remarkably well-behaved kid.  Anyway, I opened the door and was appalled to see him standing next to his bed, completely naked and covered in paint.  He had, for some reason, decided to paint his engines (he loves Thomas the Tank Engine), his sheets, the floor, the wall, the bed, and himself.  Although I was angry, I did try really hard to approach the situation from a mindful perspective.  I cannot say that I was entirely successful, but I did decide that this situation was one that would most certainly be funny after the fact.  I do think that, although I was really mad, I didn't get as angry at him as I might have in the past.  I am sure that it helped that it was easy clean-up paint, so nothing was destroyed, but it was a lot of work for me, as tired as I was.

Welcome!

Hi there, I suppose since my book is up now I should start posting!  Welcome to any readers.  I plan to be posting about my mindfulness journey in here, so I'll write about my attitudinal soil, take photos of the recipes I made in the book, and other fun stuff.  I'm also in the last 7 weeks of my pregnancy so I might talk about that some in here as well.

Please feel free to ask me any questions or share anything you would like about your own mindfulness practice!

Carrollee