Work Outing

My neighbor had this really fun idea that we should do this wacky workout video thing for thirty straight days and while she missed one day so far (something about running a race made her unable to do day 13), I’ve been able to keep up the streak…and today was day 20. Tomorrow starts the last third of the challenge – with level 3 – and the end is in sight. We get to have a fun night out as a reward for completing the challenge.

Amy & I usually meet up before work at 5am to get it over with and Mallory is pretty sad that she doesn’t get to go to Miss Amy’s at the ass-crack of dawn with me. Mallory asks me every morning when I wake her up: “did you already do your work outing, mom?”.

So while we meet up before work during the week – we are on our own on the weekend. Well – Amy is on her own…and I end up with two workout buddies. I had to buy Mallory little pink one pound weights because she would get so mad that I wouldn’t let her use my weights during the strength circuits.

I think it is so adorable that they want to do this with me. There are times that Mallory asks me to put the DVD on for her after school and she will get through the whole first circuit of the DVD (three minutes of strength, two minutes of cardio, and one minute of abs). Carson pops in occasionally and I’m thankful he’s finally stopped thinking it’s fun to hop on my tummy while I’m doing the ab work. The other funny thing is that sometimes when I’m doing some of the cardio, I’ll highstep it into the kitchen to get some water or do jumping jacks in a circle to try to make it less boring, and I always ask Mallory to tell me when that exercise is over. So of course now Mallory will on purpose turn her back on the tv and tell me (while she is doing jumping jacks or whatever) ” tell me when it’s over, K, mom?”.

I am also happy that they are excited about me working out. Especially after reading that taking your daughter to go get manicures & pedicures is sending the wrong message about how to spend quality time with your mom (putting an emphasis on looks, etc). So I’m hoping that spending time with me working out (and watching me get healthy) will cancel out the time we spend a couple times a year getting our toes painted.

I had to do some creative cropping on some of these pictures – my stomach isn’t fun to look at – even after 20 days of shredding.