Hello friends and welcome to my spring 2020 night routine today I'm going to
show you what our evenings have looked like recently and how I try to stay
healthy amidst all the change that's taking place in the world. Before I get
into this video I just want to remind you to have grace with yourself during
this time I hope you know that it's more than ok to have lazy evenings and just
truly have a night full of rest I for one have been facing a lot of emotions
and even though I try to stick to a night routine this is definitely not how
every night in my life looks but I think it's really important to try and make
the best of everything and stay positive in every situation so usually around 5
p.m. I'll wrap up what I'm working on whether I'm at my desk or somewhere else
in my apartment I'll just kind of wrap up and head over to this cozy little
chair in the corner and catch up on my phone and check social media put in my
AirPods listen to a podcast I actually pretty much always thought my ear pods
in nowadays because my husband's been working from home and I personally just
love to have music on all the time or a podcast or some kind of form of noise
and he doesn't sew my ear paws have been my best friend so I just kind of chill
out for a bit and it's been really helpful to keep my phone kind of plugged
in or separated from me when I am working throughout the day and that way
it kind of eliminates the distraction and I'm able to focus better or so it
kind of helps to keep it at an arm's length
so after I chill for a bit I go in and change to some workout clothes if I'm
not already in workout clothes sometimes I just wake up and put on some sweats or
yoga pants but today I did decide to you know put on a skirt to make me feel some
type of way and then I take off my jewelry and put my hair up and I get
ready to do some stretches I have been trying to workout at home and do yoga as
much as I can especially lately my back has been hurting me my lower back
because I've been sitting so much throughout the day so it's been really
great to do some yoga practices and stretches that help my back feel a
little looser and less tight so that's what I do to kind of get moving and feel
a bit too refreshed and my husband and I usually eat dinner pretty early so
around 5:30 or 6:00 I will get started on cooking actually sometimes they even
start cooking at 4:00 or 4:30 it depends how hungry we are that day but my go-to
lately has been to pull out a nice little wineglass and a cold glass of
kombucha and I look forward to this all day it is just so delicious and gets me
in the mood to cook and is such a nice little treat and it's also healthy well
relatively healthy I mean kombucha has many benefits so I love that I've been
loving this guava goddess flavor from a synergy so highly recommend it is just
something about drinking from a wineglass that makes me feel so fancy
and put together it just feels luxurious so whatever you're drinking
I recommend pulling out the wineglass for a little mood boost
and tonight I am made some linguine with lots of veggies so we have some onions
some garlic some cherry tomatoes and I also made a side of asparagus and this
is one of our favorite recipes lately it is so delicious and the thing that
really brings it to the next level is the goat cheese we just absolutely love
goat cheese so much it's very creamy and savory and such a great dinner and I
feel like this is a nice and balanced dinner because we have our veggies but
we have our carbs and then we have our decadent goat cheese so while I'm
cooking my husband Brandon usually finishes up his day and then once he's
done with work we eat at the bar we haven't been eating at our dining
room table which we don't really have a dining room in our apartment but you
know we have a little table next to the couch but that's his impromptu office
nowadays so he has his desktop monitor his laptop all set up so we've just been
eating all our meals pretty much at our kitchen island which is just fine and
we're still able to connect and kind of talk about our day and check in with one
another and see how we're feeling
and once we're done with dinner it's time to tidy up a bit thankfully my
husband loves a clean home as much as I do so he's always super helpful with
doing the dishes and cleaning the counters so I'm very being full for that
and usually every day I have some sort of sweet treats because I am just a
dessert lover and I made a bowl of cookie dough the other day and something
I love to do is just like heat up a little at a time so that you have
freshly baked cookies ready to go so I just put the rest of the cookie dough on
the tray and popped it in the oven
and then I brought some to Brandon because he was working on his grad
school homework now and I just went over to my cozy little chair to enjoy it
after dessert it's time for me to clean up and take a shower sometimes I take a
bubble bath I absolutely love bubble baths but most of the time I just take a
quick shower cuz it's efficient and easy it gets the job done a bit faster than a
bath and on this particular night I didn't wash my hair so it was just super
quick little body wash and shave and a hot shower always feels so nice right
before bed and then after that of course I just put my lotion on but my face
lotion you know do all the personal care things and then I head back to the
living room and kind of make our home a bit cozier by lighting some candles and
turning on our diffuser I just got my essential oil diffuser a couple months
ago and I loved it so much and it really just adds such a peaceful ambiance to
our little apartment so very glad I made that purchase
and as I'm winding down and getting relaxed something that really helps me
kind of feel more productive and more prepared for the week and the day is I
make it to do list I am an avid to-do list lover so I kind of plan out what I
want to accomplish for the next day so that when I wake up the next morning I
kind of have an outline of what I want to get done so that I'm not kind of just
feeling lost and unsure of what I'm gonna do that day so that's something
that really helps me and it just takes a few minutes and then after my list and
planning is complete I usually just spend more time on my computer whether
it's editing videos watching a show maybe both scrolling on Pinterest you
name it I just love to kind of relax sometimes I'll read a book but most of
the time I will just stay on my laptop but yeah that's usually what I do and
that is all for this night routine it's pretty simple pretty relaxed but it's
how we're spending our nights and I just really hope you guys are staying well
and healthy and thank you so much for watching this video if you did like it
please remember to give it a thumbs up and I cannot wait to see you all super
soon bye