Time For a New Challenge!

So, my son and I are L.A.Z.Y. Lazy, lazy, lazy. We have been slacking off so much, that we have become ultra super lazy. Not just about exercise. My house has been TRASHED, because I don't feel like cleaning up after dinner, or I pile papers up on the counter. Fold the laundry, but don't put it away, etc. It has been ridiculous.

However, we had a talk about it, and Matthew and I decided to give ourselves a challenge. We absolutely MUST do at least 30 minutes of exercise, every single day. No matter what!! We are going to add to that as time goes on. When we were exercising regularly, we felt SO much better. We have Comcast, and On Demand has a ton a free, short exercise videos. We are going to pick a few to do each day. Except Thursdays, because Zumba.

Yesterday, I bought a bathing suit. It's November, in Michigan, but I bought a bathing suit anyway. A Kmart near us is going out of business. The bathing suit was like $3. It is way too small. That was not an accident. It is now my "goal outfit". I have until my family goes to Disney World this spring to fit into that thing. Wish me luck!

Today, I got sick of the laziness, and my messy house. So, I put in my ear buds, turned on my calorie counter, and got to work. I cleaned for 3 hours and 55 minutes, and according to my calorie counting app, burned 1053 calories!!! That's one thousand calories. Cleaning. Wow. I'm guessing that the bulk of that is from going up and down the stairs so much. All of my folded laundry was down in the basement, on my "folding table". Then I brought it all up to the bedrooms, up on the second floor. Now, I wouldn't recommend letting your house get trashed, haha. But remember, cleaning is pretty good exercise too ;)

Whoops!

Oh my. It has been TWO MONTHS since my last blog post! I am SOOOO sorry!! Life exploded on me. I had my sister, brother-in-law and niece come move in with me temporarily, school started up full force for all three kids, and I started a Girl Scout troop. Add general daily life, babysitting, and holidays, and things are just insane. Honestly, I haven't been exercising like I should be. Or at all... But, that stops now. It's time for me to get back to ME. I need to stop worrying so much about everyone else, especially the ones who don't give me a second thought, and focus on myself, and my family. Matthew has gotten very, very lazy as well. So, him and I need to get back to it. We will make exercise a priority. Every. Single. Day. Of course, tomorrow is Monday, so I'm sure that you all remember what that means! ;)

Did I tell you guys that we got a cat? My husband, the all time anti-cat guy, got my daughter a kitten. She was over the moon about it, of course. His name is Gizmo, and he is incredibly cute. He is also incredibly evil. He bites and scratches HARD. He's just playing, but man. That hurts! Here is the little devil:

Don't let his cuteness fool you ;)

Halloween was insane this year. My town moved trick-or-treating to Saturday, because of our high school football team's playoff game, and people lost their MINDS over it. There were actual death threats. It was nuts. My kids were thrilled. They got to go trick-or-treating on Halloween the next town over, and then go again in our town on Saturday. We did so much Halloween stuff this year. The kids definitely got a lot of use out of their costumes! And since we had "two Halloweens", I got to wear both of my Halloween shirts ;) Including the totally awesome shirt that SaSeaDecor made me, based off of a chalk board print made by the awesomely talented Jessica Garvin. Prepare for Halloween picture overload!

I know that Thanksgiving is up next, but I'm already ready for Christmas!! It's my favorite time of the year :) I promise to post again before then ;)