New Year's Resolutions

While Matt and I were driving around the Berkshires, we caught a program on the local public radio station (WAMC, for those of you who are listeners) called In Our Backyard.  The host, Dr Ward Stone, was talking about his New Year's resolutions, and I have to say, I agreed to all of them.  A few highlights that I am personally going to try and adopt:

1. Get outside.  Every day.  And get my daughter outside as well.  (If I can get Matt out too, all the better!)  Today, we went to the botanical gardens and spent the afternoon in the cold, fresh air.  So much fresh air, Allie fell asleep in her backpack!
   
2. When outside, pay attention.  Notice the clouds, the trees, the smell of the air.  Teach my daughter to notice these things as well.  The more you appreciate the world around you, the more it is worth protecting.
   
3. Go to the water.  Whenever possible, I will seek out bodies of water, as all life depends upon these.  And then, adopt #2.
   
4. Eat healthy, eat local, eat organic.  Not necessarily in that order.  Matt and I spent all afternoon grocery shopping yesterday and bought LOTS of fresh veggies, herbs, fruit.  We made our own pasta sauce last night (lots of it!), and Matt made lasagna today with lots of veggies and our homemade sauce.  Yum.  The more cooking we do, the more we know what is in our food.  We're making soup tomorrow, freezing the extra so we have good, healthy food when we are too tired to cook.  Whoohoo!  
5. Walk more.  I would say drive less, but we don't really drive much anymore as it is.  But I'm chubby, and could use the extra exercise.  So I need to find excuses to walk, but I guess that is what #1 is about.
   

If you would like to walk more, outside, enjoying nature with me, then give a holler!  Extra incentive - we are now members of both the Bronx zoo and the NY Botanical Gardens.  Fresh air and exercise in one! 

Happy New Year!