Out and About!

This summer schedule is taking its toll on me! I can tell that it is wearing me out because I am grabbing a book every day instead of blogging. I will attempt to correct this behavior! Ha! Currently I am re-reading the Harry Potter series. Wonderful books - and a great escape all in one!

Yesterday was our good deed day. There are two moms I know in my MOPS group who just had babies. Yesterday the kids and I went to the grocery store, had a GREAT run, made 3 chicken pot pies, and delivered them to two families. The whole process took from 9:30 until 3:30. These women did not exactly live close together. Good deed done!

Today Princesses best friend, AB, is back in town. His family took an Alaskan cruise! That sounds SO awesome - we have been in the upper 90s/low 100's for the last month or so. The cooler weather sounds Heavenly!

Our vacation begins in just over a week! We are once again driving to Iowa. I will be sad to see the devestation the flooding has caused. Our families have been pretty lucky on the whole. Everyone still has their house.

Today we are heading to the gym. We are meeting AB and his mom there. The kids will play in the playroom for an hour and then we will all go swimming. Should be fun if the Prince behaves!!!

We joined!

I signed us up for a membership at Lifetime Fitness today! There are tons of them around the country so I feel fairly confident that no one will be able to find my true identity through this bit of information and Ana over at Ramblings of a Woman asked. :)

I was a little disappointed at first because I was heading over this morning to start my One Week Free Membership Trial, thus putting off our actual commitment for another week. If I would have read the fine print on their website I would have know that the free week trial had to end on August 31st.

It would have been nice, however, when I called the gym this morning, if they would have told me that. They knew why I was coming.

It would not have altered my decision to go today if they had told me on the phone that I could not have a free week trial, and I would have felt they were more honest. Now I am scratching my head.

The best part about this place is there is not a contract. I do not have to promise to give them money for an entire year. We pay month by month. If I do want to quit and then choose to begin again, I will have to pay another membership fee, but I am planning to love it!

I after I signed us up, I picked up the kids from their child care area and we hit the pool!

The childcare area was great! There was an outdoor play scape, big overhead tubes to crawl through, an adorable miniature basketball court, computers where the kids could play games, and a place to do crafts. It looked fun to me!

DadOf3 even drove over during his lunch hour to check it out and pick up his card! I am hoping that we all go tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday to get a good feel for everything!

Princess was hopping mad this afternoon when she found out that the Prince and the Knight got to go swimming and she didn't. I told her that she gets to do stuff in school every day that they do not get to do but apparently that was no consolation.

We are off to the Gym!

The boys and I are off to the Gym! We are going to sign up for their 7 day free trial. This will be a good test to see how much we can realistically use the gym during the week. They boys can even be in their childcare area. I have heard great things about the childcare there. They have, of course, gym stuff, but they also have computer games. I will check it out and report back!

Swimming fun and potential work out time!

Man! Did we have fun tonight!

AB's mom invited all of the kids and me to meet them at their gym and go swimming. Let me tell you, this place was way fancier than the YMCA we have been flirting with joining.

It was gorgeous! It had both indoor and outdoor pools. Both of them are open 24 hours a day. The workout equipment is amazing. And, best of all, in addition to the monthly fee, for a mere $5 per kid per month, the little buckeroos can play in their childcare area for up to 2 hours per day PER PARENT (4 hours per day, not that we woudl do that)!

The YMCA charges $2 per kid per hour. That would add up fast if you go all of the time.

And since the purpose of joining a gym is to go all of the time so you can get into shape, it should really add up.

I am intrigued. So intrigued in fact, that I am planning to drag DadOf3 down there tomorrow night to check it out.

How do the rest of you moms out there work out?

When Princess started school last year, I had grand ideas about putting both boys in my jogging stroller and, well, jogging with them.

That worked almost as well as going to the grocery store and putting them side by side in one of those fancy schmancy car carts.

They do not sit nicely.

They do not keep their hands to themselves.

They scream at each other, pummel each other, and then take turns getting out of said cart and running away from me.

It is not a pretty sight.

At least with the jogger stroller, they are buckled in.

They would last about a mile and then start whacking on each other.

Hmm....

If I could talk DadOf3 into joining this gym not only would workouts be re-introduced into my daily routine but I would get up to two hours of "time off" away from the kids ever day.

I have never, ever in all of my time of being a mommy had regularly scheduled times away from my kids.

My ability to do something (work out, get a haircut, go to the dentist, go see the doctor) has always depended on my husband's ability to come home and watch the kids.

I joined Curves about a year and a half ago but their hours sucked - the latest I could start working out was 7:30.

We don't have family in town. I tell ya, count yourself lucky if you do have family available to watch your children!

To be able to work out again! Without bothering (begging, pleading, bribing) my husband!

That would be quite the dream come true for me!

And did I mention that they have a hair salon right there at the gym!

Heaven!