Move Your Body

Move Your Body

Back in my twenties, when there was fun to be had, my mindset was generally "I'll sleep when I'm dead." however, two decades later and a month away from 40 these days the vibe is more "If I don't sleep I will be dead!"

So, you can imagine my thrill when last night I discovered my bed was decorated in a Jackson Pollock does toothpaste. Unfortunately I didn't notice until I had totally reclined meaning my feet, hands and back all shared the refreshing minty zing experience. Que stripping off the bed, much laundry and a second wind for our youngest member who was about to snuggle in with me.

In and around all this we had a phone call from an elderly relative of TDO's from Chicago who told me how much she loves the photos of the children we send. In fact it was Christmas when we last sent any. I must guiltily confess that those outside of social networking do have a tendency to drop from my radar so, this morning, I headed to the chemist and printed out some hard copy snaps to post,

There was no confession to the dental cleaning fluid crime last night but we had our suspicions. A note fluttered down the stairs, but no owning up! but despite this throughout the whole of "Two Greedy Italians" and "Shakespeare in Italy" there was no confession.

A few hours zzzzzzzz came my way before at 1:30am Baby Small asked ominously "Is it morning yet?" and again at regular intervals until around 3:30am then, at around 4am ish Big Small came in and asked if she could lie down with us. A night of insufficient sleep didn't hold me back from the gym, as I have blogged before there is ALWAYS a reason not to gym, always something else that could be more pressing but as i had booked my third assessment it was a motivator to attend.

As my membership comes to an end this month I asked for ideas for things to do without fancy equipment. If you think that this would be in any way easier then you are seriously misguided!! All the progress I felt I had made with the power plate and weights machines? Pah! A new program of triceps dips, squats and lunges using only really my own body weight as resistance has seriously found me out. In fact I have been aching since I left the building!

So 60 pelvic thrusts, planks and alternate knee thrusts with laying leg lowers and bum raised plus press-up and tricep dips, lunges and step-ups for me. Although they burn the muscles they are simple to remember and so I did a few whilst pushing the swing this afternoon. My weight has stayed within a 1kg range for 7 weeks now despite indulging in all of the baking you've witnessed on previous blogs.

 Butterfly stencils & marbling S did with Weed today. She also asked TDO for a page of maths and sums and more ginger biscuits - making a big batch of dough and cooking a tray full after the jacket potatoes in the mornings is working rather too well!

Home for lunch and to see Weed briefly before, as a five inc TDO, we headed off for a swim. We made a mistake yesterday with the miserable weather by staying indoors all day and so didn't expire the trio sufficiently. E's swimming is fab now and O enjoyed christening his birthday goggles. Despite my checking the website for times before we left an amazingly well (think spooky zombie) behaved group of private school children arrived in matching swim wear and the pool was closed. We did manage 45 mins though. so after a swim  & we took in the park as well this afternoon because it wasn't raining! and at the park S finally spilled the beans. She told me E had made her so mad that she hoped he would be the one to sleep in that bed and fall foul of her toothpaste booby trap! He makes me mad sometimes too. And I do constantly refrained that people are more important than things so what could I say? Next to the pile of swimming and gymming laundry what's a load of bed clothes?

Swimming, maths, art. Outside of those subject boxes it is all going on........