Dear Billy Blanks

Dear Billy Blanks,
I have been a huge fan of your cardio-kickboxing series, Tae-Bo for 7 years now. I'm not sure it is popular to "kick-punch" (as my 22 mth old son says) with you anymore but hey it works for me.

The reason why I'm writing is to confess my guilt. When you say on your advanced Tae-Bo dvd to "get your knee up past your belly button or you're not really working your abs" - well - I can't do it. You see, I'm 35 weeks pregnant and the best I can do is get my upper thigh to touch my stomach. Even then it's pretty pathetic.

Oh and while I'm confessing, I must admit that I can't do some of the floor stretches with you either. I either get dizzy or I can't get back up. So I either walk in place or check email kick something.

Well, I feel better getting that out in the open. I really do enjoy Tae Bo and it actually feels better than walking right now. After about 15 minutes on a walk, my lower back hurts but I can do 30 minutes of Advanced Tae-Bo and feel fine.

Thank you,
Your biggest fan (literally).

Not much happening...

I did not exercise yesterday as I was way too tired. I was so tired that for school we put together a 300 piece United States puzzle. The girls had fun and so did I! I attempted to climb Mt. Laundry but instead taught Lauren how to do her own laundry.

Today I felt pretty good so I did 25 minutes of Taebo Advanced and 15 minute upper body weightlifting. Then I put Graedon down for his morning nap, had a shower, good breakfast of 2 eggs and 1/2 cup raisin bran, tea and checked my email.

I finally climbed Mt. Laundry but didn't get all of it done. The cleaning bug came over me so I organized the baking cabinet, cereal cabinet, canned food cabinet, mud room pantry and my sewing room. I also did some sewing during Graedon's afternoon nap while the girls made chocolate chip cookies. What were the girls doing all morning? Cleaning their rooms of course. How they get so messy, I don't know. They sure feel good when everything is cleaned though.

Tomorrow I'm going to try to go for a walk with Grae & Ellie and take Brian with me. Then we are going to paint our dining room. We meant to get it done before Christmas but we both hate painting. So we are just going to do it and get it done.

I'll post some pics when we are done.

Snow day!

Yesterday I got out of bed with every intention of going for a walk. However, when I looked out the window there was 3" of snow and it was still falling. Snow in Oregon is a HUGE deal. We maybe get one light dusting of snow every year so this is a treat. Brian decided to stay home rather than risk his neck driving in this.

Instead of exercising, I made waffles for the kids, cleaned the living room, looked for the gloves and hats that were somewhere in the house. Lauren found them in our shoe closet so we set out to go play in the snow. Let me tell you, chasing an 18 month old in the snow is excersise! Grae loved the snow but didn't like that it got on his boots. At one point, I couldn't find him but since he was constantly saying "snow, snow", I found him pretty quickly. He was wiping snow off the van.

Here are some snow day pictures. Oh and I did excersise today. I went for a 30 minute walk on our snow covered sidewalks.
That is a workout. I was huffing and puffing by the time I got back. No weights today though.