Being Alive

This morning I got up and went to yoga, starting my day with one of the many things for which I am grateful. It felt good, and even the chilly bikeride on the way home was a welcome way to ring in Thanksgiving morning. When I got home, I climbed into the bathtub and watched a little Glee while I soaked. I think this was a wise move, because it enabled me to have a good cry before my kids came back home and the two-day family extravaganza that starts tonight begins.

The song wasn't one with which I was familiar, but it's a good one. Ultimately, I think it's a love song, but it's about what's difficult about love as much as it's about what's beautiful, and it's all being alive:

Someone to hold you too close
Someone to hurt you too deep
Someone to sit in your chair
And ruin your sleep
And make you aware of being alive
Someone to need you too much
Someone to know you too well
Someone to pull you up short
And put you through hell
And give you support for being
alive - being alive
Make me alive, make me confused
Mock me with praise, let me be used
Vary my days, but alone is alone,
not alive.
Somebody hold me too close
Somebody force me to care
Somebody make me come through
I'll alway's be there
As frightened as you of being alive
Being alive, being alive
Someone you have to let in
Someone whose feelings you spare
Someone who, like it or not
Will want you to share a little, a lot
of being alive
Make me alive, make me confused
Mock me with praise, let me be used
Vary my days, but alone is alone,
not alive
Somebody crowd me with love
Somebody force me to care
Somebody let me come through
I'll always be there
As frightened as you to help us survive
Being alive, being alive,
Being alive, being alive.

I'm super grateful to be alive, I'm super grateful to be a Mom, and I'm looking forward to future holidays (and everydays) with my man at my side to share being alive...