I try to take advantage of being active over my lunch hour as it frees up my evening to relax, do chores or hang out with my husband when he is home. Yesterday I packed my snowshoes and winter gear and figured I’d go out at lunch for a little trek.
I headed over to this little trail as the sun was beating down on me. The wind was whipping around and the light snow that recently fell was dancing all over the place!
Sun shining bright……….
Leaving the trail behind….
It was about 3km’s and took around a half hour to snowshoe around the loop. I returned to my office and started back at work feeling energized. All of a sudden I crashed HARD! I could barely keep my eyes open let alone, be functional. It wasn’t pretty.
You see, I was up at 2:45 with Hilary; she had to pee. Then I couldn’t fall back to sleep even though I tried. At 3:45 (I was still awake), Lilly woke up crying….she missed Daddy. She cried until close to 5 am – no joke! Poor girl. She eventually fell asleep beside me but I was WIDE awake! I eventually fell asleep only to have my alarm go off 45 minutes later.
I was completely exhausted from lack of sleep and the fresh air I got snowshoeing. Sunshine, snow and cold wind blowing around……..perfect way to spend your lunch break.
Do you get out on your lunch break?
Are you loving the winter temp and getting outside or staying inside and hibernating ?
Favourite winter activity?
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Awe, poor Lilly! It’s so sad when a parent works away. My fingers are crossed that Dave doesn’t have to work away when he’s done school!!
It sure is. Luckily he is home today!
I love winter and snow and I spend a lot of time walking and admiring the nature and making photography 🙂
I need to take my good camera out one of these days and get some good shots.
🙂 Good luck!
First, love the new layout! Though I will miss the pics of the kiddos and the fam. I would love to go snowshoeing! Something I’ve always wanted to do, and I’m sure that it would kick my ass. I (obviously) don’t have kids, but I can tell you, simply from having a very “dedicated” cat that separation anxiety is a very real thing. We miss the people that we love! And so hard for kids.
Thanks Susie, was wanting a little change on the blog … still playing with it. Lilly does really well when Saï is away but he was just home for 10 days twice (Dec and Jan) so we had a little extra time with him. It IS so hard for kids…we talk about it a lot with the girls.
I’m a little jealous of your snowshoeing! When I post on social media about running on the treadmill on snowy days often my friends from very snowy areas will tell me to go snowshoeing. Unfortunately we just don’t have enough snow and often enough snow to warrant dropping the money on a pair. So instead I spend my snowy days indoors on the treadmill 🙂
Such a bummer that you can’t go snowshoeing….you’ll just have to plan a vacation someday where you can snowshoe. It’s such a workout. I used to work outdoors and we’d go for 5-6 hour snowshoe treks and then pass out from exhaustion shortly after we’d return!
I have to say, my favorite winter activity is the fact that I live in South Florida and don’t have to have a “winter activity”. The snow is pretty, though!
Oh….now I’m jealous of your WARMTH in Florida!
Great idea – I should bring my snowshoes to work for lunch time!! More fun than just a “walk” outside.
You should! Such a great time to be outside and take advantage of being active!
I love going outside on my lunch and breaks. But winter time has me in hibernation mode. Luckily my office has treadmill desks to walk on and a workout room with a some nice equipment to work up a sweat. You’re brave. I’m not a snow person.
Treadmill desks sound kinda nice! I love the snow!
If we lived near each other, we would be real life BFFs. I love being outside in the winter (skiing!! yay!). I am dying for a pair of snowshoes or xc skis. This year, we have zero snow so I haven’t been as interested in it but if we did, I’d be all over that. Great pictures, so jealous of your snow AND lunch time snowshoeing!!!
I think we would be BFF’s for sure! I love being outside in the winter too – trying to convince my husband to go skiing tonight 🙂
XC skiing is simply the best. I’ve let to get on my ski’s but hoping to next week probably during my lunch break 🙂
I am dying to get on a pair of XC skies. We are getting our first big snowstorm this weekend and I’m going to wish I had a pair!!
Wow, I’m jealous of your snowshoeing adventure! I used to be all about the runch, but these days it just seems like too much effort to cram it all into a short lunch hour. Maybe once the weather gets nice again this spring I’ll reconsider.
You know what? I can’t seem to bring myself to runch much but snowshoeing and xc skiing are now my go-tos. I don’t have the drive to run outside right now..haha!
Looks beautiful! We only get a 30 minute lunch break, but I do try to walk around the hospital campus when the weather allows! I hope your daughter feels better, soon!!!
It was beautiful and only a 5 minute walk from my office!
How nice to work near such a beautiful place!! 🙂
Snowshoeing looks so hard to me. But we both want to give it a try soon. Although, I think I am more of a beachshoeing kind of person 😉
You know what, it’s not too hard. It can be simple if you are on a path that is used frequently or super hard if you are breaking your own trail. You can make it what you want from it! Hope you give it a try soon!
That looks like so much fun! And TOUGH! It’s so beautiful out there though. I’d love to try something like this, but we haven’t had snow all winter yet. (Although that’s all supposed to change tomorrow!)
It sure can be tough. I decided to not use the path everyone else was using so I was deep in the snow. Good luck with the BIG storm this weekend! Be safe and hope you get Betty out tobogganing, my girls LOVE it!
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I really hope to go somewhere someday where there is this much snow!
Just come to Canada anytime in Jan to March 🙂
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I try to maximize my lunch hour with either a short run (which will mean I get to sit at my desk for a couple hours soaking wet lol) or doing errands. Love your pictures!