Today is the first day of school…and the first day of real life now that summer is unofficially over. I feel like I am coming off of a time of dreamy slowness. Maybe because we are back from a week long road trip vacation just as summer holidays were ending made this feeling of being back to everyday life extra overwhelming. 

And that makes me want to look back to summer and hope that I didn’t waste all of the two months. My biggest and most intense accomplishment was early morning Mysore yoga classes 5 days a week, or whenever I was around. I feel like a lot of progress was made, and I now have a path for my yoga journey to continue on. Before this year, I mostly did yoga for some flexibility and mobility without having any idea of where I was going with it. With the Ashtanga practice, first with my 100 Day project during winter and spring, and now the Mysore experience, I know this is the path I want to keep going on. Having a limited, but full of potential, path gives me a direction to head towards without getting distracted by every shiny object, aka flows or other classes. Now the big challenge is to see how my early morning yoga practice can fit with school schedule and most dreadedly…WINTER! Never a dull moment in life!!

We had so many trips, and long weekend drives this summer that I did give myself the easy pass when we were home to not hustle too much. My early wakings (4:45 am!) meant that afternoon naps were always welcome. And I haven’t done much in terms of making art or work on my business. Things I need to get back to with earnest!

Gym happened very consistently all summer, and I plan to keep it that way still. Having made it a part of my weekdays means it’s hard to miss it. And I love my husband for always keeping me in line by asking me every morning when I’m going to the gym. So even though I want to squirm out of it, I go. And never regret going.

We ate out a lot all summer. Which means I cooked a lot less all summer. So that has to start happening again. I was really good with homemade lunches though- probably my healthiest meal after gym. It is full of fresh fruits, veggies, eggs and roasted sweet potatoes followed a little later by a slice of homemade sourdough bread. I crave this meal- it is so good!

I have lots to catch up on, a lot of new things that are exciting me, and I am dreading non-stop churning of school lunches and schedules. But well, this is real life. And it will feel easier once we get going in earnest- next week maybe?

But for today, I just have a big grocery haul to bring home so we can get started with the real life (since the stores were conveniently closed yesterday, so we had nothing at home after coming back from vacation). Lots of cooking and prepping is in my future today. And I am fine with that- as long as I have good podcasts to listen to in the kitchen 🙂