Motivated moms!

A couple of months ago I purchased my Motivated Moms planner. Well, in our move, I lost everything on my hard drive and it was deleted. I need to print the rest of it out and so I contacted them this morning to see if I could reprint it. Well, I had expected to wait a couple of days for a response at least. Within 2 minutes of sending my email, they responded with my download link so I could re-download the product.

If you don't know about Motivated Moms, it's a great little checklist that you print out and it assigns you specific chores for each day to help keep your home organized. You can check them out at

Motivated Moms

I find it really handy and I love the checklist because, like Sparkpeople, it helps me remember what my mommy brain sometimes forgets.... like whether or not I have taken my vitamins!

On to other things... I haven't gotten my workout in yet today, but I'm determined to use my Wii! I am sore from my session on Saturday, so that makes me want to do it again. I love feeling like something is actually working!

I stayed pretty much on track food-wise this weekend which is good for me. I never went over calories or anything, so that is a positive. I didn't get in my workout yesterday but we did a lot of running around.

Off to get my house in order and my rear in gear! :)

Struggling with motivation today....

I don't know what is up with me today, but I'm really, really struggling to stay motivated. I think that being sick yesterday put me in a bad mood and I'm just still recovering from that. Being sick yesterday means that the house is a disaster today because Aiden ran amok and no one was there to clean up each little mess.

I am also still struggling with my house not being perfectly organized. I know this is a recurrent theme for me, but it's so disheartening to me for not everything to have a place or be in its place. I need to figure out a way to not be so annoyed and disheartened just because things are not perfectly organized in my home.

I made a point to do pushups and crunches first thing when I got out of bed. I did 10 pushups and 100 crunches. I haven't binged on food like I really want to so I guess that's a pretty good thing. I would love to just veg on the couch right now and forget about the mess that is my home.

I really need to find that elusive cleaning fairy.

Housebound today

Aiden is definitely sick, so at least I know that the fall isn't what made him vomit the other night. Unfortunately, that means lots of nastiness needs to be cleaned all day long and that doesn't give me much time to get anything else done. I wanted to pop on here though anyway.

Yesterday we did manage a quick trip to Trader Joe's. I had been planning it for a while and managed to get some yummy staples stocked up. I got Brandon their Cioppino soup which he was obsessed with when we lived in California. He was pretty excited about that.

I managed 15 pushups and 90 crunches the other night so already I'm seeing progress in my fitness level. I've also lost 1.25 inches around my waist. Other measurements seem to be staying the same, but I'm pleased to have any progress at all. I'm down 9.5 pounds from a couple of weeks ago, which excites the heck out of me.

I have so much that I need to get done around this house that I'd better get to it.

...and then a night in the ER

So yesterday was beautiful and I failed to mention that Aiden did a back flip down the half flight of stairs that lead to our apartment. Well, he did. It was pretty scary but he shook it off quickly after a good cry and everything seemed fine. He ran at the riverfront walk and all of that.

In a normal bout of insomnia, I was laying in bed at 3 am, tossing and turning when I heard coughing on the baby monitor. Well, I still check on Aiden about 3-4 times a night (and Luke too, but he's right next to me in the cosleeper). Anyway, I went into his room and found that he was vomiting and choking and gagging on the vomit. :( I got him out of bed, into a bath and cleaned up. Of course he vomited again about 20 minutes later-- all over me. I took a quick shower and that's when I remembered that he had fallen yesterday. I noticed he had a little bruise on his forehead, too. He wasn't running a fever, so I started to worry a bit. I called the doctor's after-hours exchange and sure enough they wanted me to bring him to the ER.

We went to the ER and they checked him out, he has a slight infection in his left ear leading them to believe he may just have had a little virus. But, he still has had absolutely no fever and the vomiting seems to be at bay-- at least with Zofran and Phenergan on board. They sent us home and we got to bed at about 8 this morning. I'm a total zombie today. I put Aiden in his room and inflated the blow up bed and popped Luke in his crib in their room. We were all able to get a couple hours rest that way. I'm hoping Aiden will take a little nap this afternoon and that Luke will cooperate and sleep at the same time so I might get a little rest.

So.... hopefully I'll be able to get some sort of exercise in this evening if I get a chance to rest..... I would like to at least do something. I'm loving that I have sore muscles!