Day 274: Balance

I was away this past weekend.  For a long 4 day, sans-kids, New England autumn expedition.  It was wonderful.  Saw a favorite old friend, didn't have to worry about feeding anyone else or driving to whatever game there might be at whatever schedule was set for me.  But what I took most away from this trip was balance.

Life is too short not to eat the fried dough.  I am a healthy eater 95% of the time.  So I think that I have set myself up for the allowance of the country fair food every once in awhile.  Today though, salad.  :)

I am a power exerciser.  Fast, sweaty, get-er-done mentality.  But I had a lovely hour and a half long slow-flow yoga session facing the white mountains which forced me to calm my body.

My normal "relaxing" Sunday would be parked in front of the tv, cuddled on the couch with a warm blanket watching football.  But there we were 7:30 am on Sunday, hiking up a mountain.  It was beautiful and relaxing in an entirely different way.

I loved having adult time with no schedules, but missed my kids terribly and was glad to get home to them even if just as I pulled in the driveway, one came around the corner with a big black eye caused by the other one.

So I say, LIVE.  Do the mountain yoga, bounce like a crazy person in your living room, eat the salad AND the fried dough.   And be happy with the balance.