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Thankfully, things have picked up significantly since my last post. Despite Elliott having diarohea yesterday afternoon, the day didn’t get too much worse. Thanks for listening to my rant J

Today on the other hand has been lovely. We had swimming lessons this morning and then headed over to a friends’ house for a morning of play. It was great having a relax, the kids all entertaining each other and catching up with some great friends of mine J We’ve just arrived home to the painting all done (yay!) and the kids are down for a nap...time to carve out a little “me time!”

Something I like to do for “me time” is read a magazine. Just the other day I was reading Weight Watchers magazine and came across an article on how to get motivated for exercise and about incorporating incidental exercise into your life. There was a particular paragraph with a few points of advice on “How to exercise if you’re raising young kids”. Here is what they suggest and how it actually works in the land of motherhood:

“Seize every opportunity to exercise with your kids. Do core floor work while they are at home”. Yeah, this one is great in theory but in practice…ah nope. If I ever lay down on the floor, I am free game! I have the kids jumping on me, wanting to play aeroplanes and wrestling with me plus the dog in my face. It is an absolute circus whenever I lay on the floor so busting out a few core exercises just aint gonna happen.     

“Do extra laps of the supermarket aisles when shopping”. Bah! Absolutely no way on God’s green Earth will I spend a minute longer than I need to in the supermarket. I get plenty of exercise juggling the kids, a wonky trolley (every time), walking fast to get out of there fast and of course going back to previous aisles because I went too fast to get everything I needed. So no, I won’t be spending any more time in that delightful place than need be.

“Join in with playtime at the park”. Oh good grief, this article must have been written by a man. When the Mum’s Group girls and I take the kids to the park, we feed them up and send them off to entertain themselves. When they come whinging to us, we check for blood and broken bones then send them back off to play, advising them to leave us Mum’s alone unless they spontaneously combust. OK, it’s not quite that dramatic but we do encourage them, strongly, to run off and play so us Mum’s can have a relatively uninterrupted conversation. We have drink (water, wine or coffee), relax with our baked goods and chat the day away. Oh and we hate swings! We don’t want to play at the park, we want the kids to play by themselves and give us a break!

So with these “helpful” suggestions in mind, I think for the sake of my sanity, I will have to keep going to the gym. Hopefully one day it will all pay off J