Mommy needs to excercise!

After the birth of my son I randomly checked out this book called Mom's Town. It was a guide on getting your life back as a sahm. The book itself was incredibly inspiring, and although I have never fully completed it's 'course', I am constantly taking bits and pieces of it and incorporating it in my life. The one factor that I was never really good at was the journal keeping. Although all throughout my life I have kept a journal, lovingly pouring my heart onto thier empty pages, I have found I no longer have.....the time? the desire? the need? to write anymore. All of those excuses lame. So, in part, that is what this blog is to me. Aside from my random ramblings, every week or so I will be writing an entry based on a subject from the book.

That said, this week's topic is pretty focused on my body image and excercising. So bear with me....
What areas of my body would I improve? Right now, I'm almost tempted to say all of it =). I think, even six months after having our second child, I am still in disbelief about what has happened to my body. Both pregnancies I got really large. (enter stretchmarks...in places I didn't even know were possible!). Although I lost the weight from the second pregnancy really quickly, I had never really lost the weight from the first go-round. Oh yeah, and I nursed our son for a year, and am well on my way to doing that with our daughter. What part would I improve, you ask? Take your pick. I have an ongoing joke (I suppose you could call it my passive-aggressive plea for help) with my baby-daddy (BD for short) about getting a tummy tuck/boob job combo after we are all done making babies. For the sake of argument, though, I will just list my stomach as my most hated body part. I'm secretly terrified that even if I do lose all the weight, I will just be left with a gross tummy.

List excuses why I don't look and feel the way I want.
I am too tired (fuck, yeah I am lol)
We can't afford the gym
And even with my gym membership (which I guilty have) I feel out of place there.
Too get out of the house with kids is a chore in itself.
I can always start my diet tomorrow =)
Let's go out to eat tonight-we deserve it/want to get out of the house.
The kids were crazy today, it would be really nice to just relax with some ice cream.

List five activities I enjoy:
Walking downtown (alright, or through a mall)
Tennis
Bike riding
Skating (I'm a child of the 80's, my friend, so I totally mean old school skating, none of this inline skating stuff. If that's even cool anymore. It could be something completely different by now).
Softball

All of this works perfectly with what is going on with me now...tomorrow I begin my new workout regime. The hard part: waking up at 7am. (I have embraced the fact that I will never work out at night or during the day..minus taking the kids on walks and stuff). The best part: after a hard workout, coming home, taking a shower (um I get to shower everyday like a normal person? yay!), and having my bd make me some coffee and breakfast. I'm hoping that working out in the morning, combined with taking a shower will wake me up quicker than usual and kickstart my day. I also plan on taking my children on two walks a day (a big commitment in this extreme hottness that is the Sunshine State), maybe incorporating a yoga dvd into my day, and just over all being more proactive about moving around and being productive. Wish me luck....7am comes rather quickly.

Things that I am grateful for today: baby girl falling asleep in my arms while we slow danced, actually having her sleep in her crib tonight (what a novel concept!), our little man yelling AWESOME for the first time today and hearing him sing along to the theme song we have made up for the baby, having the baby fall asleep on the walk to the park (which means I can actually read my book while little man plays)