Yes, this is INDEED my second post today! But... I did it! I worked out! And I think this time-slot may be just what I was looking for. If I can put youngest down around 12 and then get downstairs, that gives me some time to walk and then stretch before I need to leave to pick up oldest. I know that there will be days that this won't work out, but I am going to try to shoot for it and let it fall where it may. But as for today, I got 20mins. on the treadmill and then stretching. :D I am going to aim to work out every day, knowing I probably won't. But if I make it a point of TRYING every day, then I hope I will get more than if I said, say I will do 5. I think if I say 5, I'd maybe get 2 or 3. I'm hoping by trying to do a little every day, I will get at least 4. I want to do it in addition to anything else I do since walking is easy and good for you. The stretching, well, I wish I had more time for it, but 10 or so mins. will have to do. I may have to do different types of stretching to get them all in just on different days. And the Pilates, well, I may have to do what was suggested to me which was to spread it out throughout the day. Some squats when I'm doing dishes or calf raises. Leg lifts when I'm laying in the floor with the kids. Core work while I'm watching the 'quiet time' TV with the kiddos. Things like that. It will have to do.
Well, now that my workout is done and oldest is home and I even have the kitchen cleaned, I need to get off of here and decide what to do for the rest of my day. It's not even 3 and I've got pretty much everything on my list done! I wish we could go to the park, but it's looking rainy out and has already started sprinkling. :( And youngest just woke up and is eating his snack. I think I'm going to have to get rid of the bottles and sippy's. We've been working on the bottles, but this 'trainer' sippy's leak like the dickens! Every time his bottle or cup gets turned upside down, I'm cleaning up puddles! They gotta go. Thankfully we only had a couple of each. I didn't really want many transition ones since he seemed to like the regular ones just fine once he took oldest's. Although, my older one only uses them once in a while now. He is more than old enough and more than capable of drinking from a regular cup, so he normally does. The sippy is usually on used on car trips or when we have snack in the living room instead of in the kitchen. Other than that, he drinks out of regular cups. OK, well, seriously, going to go now! :D
Congratulations on getting in a workout! I did today too and it made me feel so happy for the rest of the day.
ReplyDeleteUgh, I hate leaky sippy cups. I just transitioned my son from bottles to sippys (although we do still give him a bottle first thing in the morning and before bedtime) and some of those sippys are just terrible. Constant dribble streams.
Congrats on getting in a workout! You're doing better than me! The weather is so rainy here that I haven't had a chance to get outside with Sissy to do anything.
ReplyDeleteOn the sippy cups, after many trials & errors we found that Playtex worked best. You still have some drips, but not as bad as some of the others. The valve was removable & cleanable (we had some that weren't & they got disgusting). Now, this was a couple of years ago, so I'm making the assumption that they are still just as good. I liked them, too, because Munch had a habit of chewing on anything that had a rubber "straw" or spout. I used to get so scared that she was going to swallow a big piece of rubber (she'd chew them clean thru). Good luck on finding one that doesn't leak!
Awesome job getting in your workout! It sounds like you have figured a schedule that will work for you, that's great.
ReplyDeleteI remember the days of having sippy cups in my house. They were a pain. Good luck on finding one that doesn't leak.
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ReplyDeleteI am the same as you. If I aim to workout every single day I usually end up working out five days a week. However, if I shoot for five days a week I will work out three. And yes, when the goal is three workouts a week I will end up working out once or twice. I don't know why my goofy brain works like that, but it does.
Today I didn't work out, but I've been hauling around books and carrying boxes up and down stairs- does that count?