I'm Ruth, a travel lover, reader, project-doer, casual runner, aspiring yogi, wife, and mom to a curious little girl and energetic little boy. Around here we look for adventure in the everyday mundane tasks and in the once in a lifetime events.
All in Small Experiments
As I work to develop and maintain habits, it’s nice to step back from the day-to-day monotony and acknowledge the things that are working, that are making a positive impact on my physical and mental experience.
I feel both a pull to comment on 2020 and a desire to leave it in the past now that the calendar has finally turned. While there were both highs and lows, as is always the case, the heartache and challenges do stand out a bit more boldly for 2020.
The temperature here is in the 50s today, there’s been great progress on the snow-melting front, and our yard is a huge puddle with chunks of ice barely hanging on.
The stores of digital pictures went untouched in May, but I did get started with DuoLingo Spanish. This feels like accomplishment enough for a month that always ends up busier than I anticipate at the outset.
Episodes of pink eye, sinus colds all around, a broken wrist, a bruised foot, a mid-month blanket of heavy snow, April had plans other than my own.
As I fell into consistent habits with my sleep schedule and protected morning time as well as strict adherence to the Whole30 rules, I realized my energy levels were stabilizing and I felt really good, mentally and physically, throughout the day.
For February my focus was exclusively on food and the way it nourishes our bodies (or doesn't).
In our family, I am the reader and my husband is decidedly not. There's no criticism in that, it's simply each of our preference. However, he decided to include reading in his 2018 goals and committed to reading one book each quarter.
I've never given much thought to New Year's resolutions - they weren't a big deal in my family growing up, and I never found myself in a circle of people who jumped into them in my early adult life either. I read Gretchen Rubin's Better than Before a few years back…
