The other reason
The other reason I’m dragging my feet getting back to swimming is what happened on Monday.
See, we’ve rearranged our modem/router location, and now I’m mobile again. But Hubby has decided we should turn the modem off at night. So what happened on Monday? Well…
When I went to bed Sunday night Monday morning I switched everything off and thus, when I crawled out of bed got up later on Monday morning, I couldn’t be bothered turning everything on. So I had my breakfast, did several loads of washing, ironed, cleaned the kitchen, did a science experiment with the kids, all before lunch time. After lunch we lazed around on the computer, visited a furniture shop, went to the park for a play, Macca’s for an ice-cream, then to the bank before making it home at 5pm. All in all, the day was calm, quiet and, most importantly, fun.
Swimming three times a week takes up a lot of time. Even if all I do is go, swim and come home, I’m gone for at least two and a half hours. If I stay for a coffee it’s 3 hours minimum. Adding in study next week (eeek!) will make things more chaotic. I do love swimming, but doing it with 3 kids is tiring. But at the same time I really need to keep doing it for my back. Added to the fact Miss Moo is getting beyond the age she can happily remain in her pram for an hour with little to no input from me and I’m not sure how much longer I can keep it up. Or what to do about it.
My Dr is at me to lose weight (for a number of reasons - I don’t really consider myself overweight, but I could lose 5 - 7kg and be healthier for it) and it’s just so hard with three kids at home. I have contemplated Wii Fit, but someone is looking out for my bank balance at the moment cause when I went into Target today to put it on layby there were none left.
Any suggestions? Or just suck it up until they’re at school and I can swim/exercise in peace?
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Oops - I was meant to come back and kick, wasn’t I?
A local lady here has just published some book about “the Clothesline diet” where she lost weight by walking around her back yard.
No other suggestions, unless you find a like minded mother you can swap an hour with to concentrate on yourself for that hour?
Like Jeanie said, maybe another mother could help out? Are there other mothers in your swim group? You could take turns watching the kids, maybe even form an informal creche type of outing, where half the group swims while the other half watches, then swap. Or you could drop the kids at a friends home, go swimming, then on another day, you could mind her kids while she does something for an equal amount of time.
What they said *points up*