These are a few of my favorite things
August 15th, 2010-Spending time with family. Yesterday we had lunch with David’s family and today we had lunch with my family. I love that we finally live close enough for that to be a fairly typical weekend!
-Taking long bicycle rides! Now that the kids are in school I’ll actually get to go biking more often, I am so excited! I went for a bike ride on Friday, another on Saturday, and if its not too rainy tomorrow, I’m going to go for another ride then – I might even try mountain biking again! Hopefully now that I’ll be able to go the gym, do my HIIT workout, and/or go for a bike ride every day I’ll loose the weight I gained this summer not being able to work out regularly and eating too much food in NYC!
-Spending time outdoors. I don’t like being cooped up inside during so much of the winter (like last year) and so I’ve been really enjoying taking runs in the morning with my dog, Lily, each day after the school bus leaves. Isn’t she sweet looking? I can’t believe she was a tiny little 16 lb puppy when we got her last year and now she’s over 50 lbs! For anyone who doesn’t know, she’s a beagle/golden retriever mix and I think they are just the sweetest dogs ever! She’s very patient with the kids – they can pull on her, sit on her, play with her and she never gets annoyed with them. She’s also very protective of them and will growl/lunge/bark at any stranger who reaches for them, as we found when hiking and a lady tried to help Ellie off of a rock. She not too big to be an indoor dog, but still big enough to intimidate people when needed. (Though she’s so sweet that she rarely is intimidating.)
I also like being able to take long walks on our country road with the kids, heading down to the church at the end of our road to play on their playground. The kids like to walk through the cemetery on the way there.



