Hello! And welcome to another typical day in my life. We are slowly but surely getting used to Rochester, but there is still so much to see here. It's such a beautiful area and we are so lucky to be able to call it home.
Morning routine: You can read my full morning routine here. One of the things I do every morning is fill in my planner for the day. This post explains a little more about my planning routine. It's focused on the monthly set up, but it also has the links for my daily planner sheets, as well.
Breakfast: We are big fans of overnight oats around here. This week, I prepped apple overnight oats and they were so good. I layered oats, almond milk, vanilla greek yogurt (we usually do plain with a little bit of honey, but I cheated this week and did the vanilla instead), chia seeds, diced apple, raisins, cinnamon and nutmeg. This is not the greatest picture - they were much cuter before I stirred them up.
Coffee/Tea: I found the greatest little coffee place called Finger Lakes Coffee Roasters. Their coffee tastes amazing, they have the cutest mugs for sale and they even have a few local books. It was a bit crowded and I didn't take any pictures, but we will be back! Still trying to focus on drinking at least 64 oz. of water per day.
Shopping: Bizi will be a freshman this year and her new school starts next month, so we have been doing a LOT of shopping. So much shopping. Holy smokes, can this child shop.
As for me, I bought some new workout clothes, some Tombow pens (THE BEST) for my sister - they had these at TJ Maxx for $12.99. I think I said on insta that they were $14, but I was wrong. And then I bought groceries. You know, exciting things like that.
Lunch: This week, we have had quinoa bowls. Quinoa, sugar snap peas, avocado, diced chicken, green pepper, lentils, and green goddess dressing. They were actually pretty good.
Family Time: All three of us are officially in training for this 5K. We are still only running two miles three times a week, but there's more running and less walking than previously.
We celebrated National Root Beer Float Day at Lugia's Ice Cream and WOW!
That ice cream cone is a small, you guys. WHAT?
We also went to Insomnia Cookies for National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. I really wanted to bake MY chocolate chip cookies, but we don't have all our baking supplies here in the apartment, so there's not a lot of baking going on until we get in the new house.
We also went to Yolickity, which is a local frozen yogurt bar, just because it looked cute.
Of all this fun junk food, I only actually ate few bites of frozen yogurt, one bite of cookie, and one bite of vanilla ice cream because I just couldn't bring myself to undo all my healthy progress. But Dan and Bizi had a blast! And I enjoyed these discovering these new places!
Supper: We had open faced turkey, artichoke and kale sandwiches with nectarines. I sprinkled a few pecans and drizzled cinnamon honey from It's All About Bees over the nectarines and they were so good. I also made broccoli and sweet potato pizzas on whole wheat pitas, which were pretty good, as well.
Evening Routine: You can read my full evening routine here. I've been using this Calming Green Turnover Toner from Lapalette Beauty, which I love. A lot of toners are actually not good for your face, but this one is so great. Definitely recommend.
Reading: I am currently reading The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. It's so beautiful. I absolutely love it. It can be confusing and difficult to follow, but so far, I'm captivated. Dan and I are also reading Ethan Frome together.
The Last Word: I loved this story about these two Olympian high jumpers sharing their gold medal.
Also cute: these pandas.
And that's a wrap, folks. Thanks again for sharing our day with us!