As many may know, I have been a crazy workout-aholic lately. I want to snap this body back into shape...I have let myself go a bit since I've started college again and let the overwhelmed-ness of myself get the best of me. I've been a bit more stressed about doing really well in school, making sure the boys are doing well with their schoolwork, making sure Liam is not losing his shit on someone at school, thinking about keeping the house clean, making sure everyone is eating well (we're happily vegan now!) and happy doing the eating (you can't make nasty tasting vegan stuff and expect kids to eat it), all of that along with the normal everyday stuff like meal planning and grocery shopping, getting to therapy once a week, lawn stuff, multiple parties and taking care of other people's this and that. I spent most of September being COMPLETELY overwhelmed. And what does this girl do when EVERYTHING is getting the best of her? She goes to the bed...and she takes the three year old and a small set of movies and her textbooks (ehem...now the strange e-books) with her!
Sitting on my ass, has induced this fabulous phenomenon...IT HAS GOTTEN LARGER!!! I feel puffy and super fat. Five pounds really is a bunch to pack on in a month, for me anyway. So, I got it in my head that it is time to get back to that place that I pay bi-weekly for...that place that has a really nice babysitting service attached to it...THE GYM! I had been away during the summer because it was always crowded and the kids didn't like it. I've also discovered, taking these e-books with me!!! On the iPad. I can do a 24% incline climb, burn off 300+ calories, do 2.5 miles and read a huge chunk of the required lesson for the day, all on the treadmill in about 30 minutes. I finish with 3.5 miles on the bike for 15 minutes...read a little more. Once I'm done, I usually just go grab up Mia and we go home. I try to work in a shower, soon after we get in, but she is a little hellion when left to her own devices.
This tiny person can single-handedly eat every banana and apple in the house, put on a movie, tear her entire wardrobe out of her dresser, rip her bed apart (to make what she describes as a "slide"...thanks, Liam and Aedan!), pour out bubble solution all over the kitchen floor and then play with the bowls and things in the cabinets...ALL IN THE TIME IT TAKES ME TO SHOWER!!! And I speed shower! Seriously, I don't spend more than 7-8 minutes in there! This is why until today, I haven't shaved my legs in what turns out to be a while!!
Solution #1: Bring her into the shower with me. This works occasionally, but I'm not the shower sharing type. I use that time to think...quietly...alone! Don't get me wrong, I love my little chatterbox, but there's a time and a place for her chatter.
Solution #2: USE THE BABYSITTING SERVICE TO IT'S FULL EXTENT!!! We are alloted two hours of babysitting time, per day. I use just under one hour. I have decided that Mia has such a fab time there, anyway, so why not??!! I need to organize my bags, etc, But I am going to blissfully shower and shave and DRY MY HAIR and do my makeup and get completely dressed for the day, at the GYM!! All without having to listen for the fridge to shut for the sixth time, denoting that she has helped herself to half of the very expensive (for cereal only) soymilk or yet another tiny apple.
Let's see how this works out...
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