The Nelson Narrative

Ha, that was the title of a book Charlotte was embarrassed to buy on an episode of Sex and the City. Anyway, today is a new start for me on the diet front. I finally weighed this morning (I was still too scared last Friday). I am up 6 pounds from my lowest post-baby weight. At least I'm still under (one whole pound!) my pre-pregnancy weight. I did the 30 Day Shred today and hope to take the girls for a walk this afternoon. I'm also writing down everything I've eaten. I'm going to try and lose 5 pounds by our anniversary. Today is also the girls' 14-month birthday. I'm hoping to do a separate blog entry about that.

The girls are almost 14 months and I haven't documented our daily routine in awhile. They get up way too early but at least they take a nice long nap! 6:00 or 6:30 - Wake (usually just Olivia and Kayley closer to 7:00, but sometimes both and sometimes it's Kayley who wakes first. They're always shaking things up). Play until 7:30 or 8:00 (depending on when they got up). 7:30 or 8:00 - Breakfast 8:30ish until 11:00 - Clean up from breakfast, get dressed, play, and then I either do an indoor workout while they play or I take them for a morning walk outside. 11:00 - Lunch 11:30 or 12:00 - Nap 2:00 or 2:30 to 5:30ish - Play, snack, errands or walk, start dinner 5:30 or 6:00 - Dinner 6:30 to 8:30 (sometimes 9:00) - Play and bedtime routine (bath (every 3 days or so), jammies, books, brush teeth, etc). 8:30 or 9:00 - Bed

So, I've totally fallen off the wagon as far as diet and exercise. Well, not so much the exercise. I still do the Shred a few days a week and walk most afternoons, but eating has been another story. I couldn't stop eating Easter candy! But now that Easter has come and gone, I'm ready to recommit and get back on track. I'm not going to weigh until Friday, because I'm too scared, but then my mini goal will be to lose 5 pounds by our anniversary on May 13th, and my big goal is to lose 20 by the end of September. That gives me 5 months to lose 20 pounds which is totatlly doable.

Last Friday I took the girls to a free Gymboree class. They loved it and had a blast! It was very challenging for me, however, to get them to and from and manage them during. Normally I would use a stroller but I didn't want to put them in the stroller to walk the short distance from the car to the building, plus it was only a single wide door so it wouldn't have fit through. See, going to Target or Fred Meyer is easy--I park right next to a cart return so I can grab a cart/return the cart without having to take more than just a few steps from the car (I literally can still touch the car as I'm returning the cart). I put them in, go into the store, do our shopping, go back to the car, put them in the car, return the cart. But other places are a little more challenging. For the Gymboree class, I parked, got one baby out, carried her around to the other side of the car and put her down to get the other baby out, trying all the while to hold her in place with my legs to keep h...

After a week of cold, rainy and snowy weather we finally have had a few days of warm sunshine! Yesterday I decided that instead of doing my 30 Day Shred workout after breakfast I would move up our usual afternoon walk and then use the afternoon to just play outside instead. Around 9:30 I put the girls in their cribs so I could make the bed and get dressed and when I went to get them Olivia was asleep! Weird, as they have been down to one nap from 11:30ish until 2:00ish for quite some time now. So, instead of going for a walk Kayley and I just had some good one-on-one time and when she went down for her nap at the normal time, Olivia woke up. I thought I was doomed to a no nap-overlap, no-break-for-mommy kind of day, but for some reason Kayley only slept for a half hour, meaning they would both need another nap later in the afternoon. We ended up finally going for our walk around 12:30 and then playing in the yard for awhile after that. Today they are back on their normal nap sche...

Seeing as how we rarely go out anymore, most Friday and/or Saturday nights we try to watch a movie after the girls go to sleep. And seeing as how they don't usually go to sleep before 9:00, we're already pretty tired (god, we're old). It never fails--one or both of us will fall asleep 20 minutes in. So we turn it off, go to bed, and plan to resume watching during the week. But since the girls don't go to sleep until 8:30 or 9:00 and Paul has to get up so early for work, we only have like a half hour to watch until he has to go to bed. And on Tuesdays and Wednesdays we watch American Idol so we can't watch a movie at all. Therefore it pretty much takes an entire week watching a movie in 20-30 minute increments to finish one. Sad.

Before I had kids I always just assumed that when I did, I would frequently, or at least occasionally, be using the diaper changing stations in restaurant and mall restrooms. As it turns out, not so much. As I was packing the diaper bag yesterday before heading out to run some errands, it occured to me that I almost never need to do that. I think I did once or twice in the early days, and I remember changing them in the back of the SUV in a Target parking lot after church one Sunday, but for the most part we are never gone long enough to necessitate a public diaper change. Breakfast is usually around 8:00 and lunch is at 11:00 (in order to squeeze it in before nap time) so if we go anywhere in the morning, which is rare because I usually like to work out and shower during this time, we can't leave until 9:00 or 9:30 and we have to be back by 11:00. Sure we could have our lunch while we're out, but then they'd fall asleep in the car right after and usually when that happens ...