It rained almost the entire weekend here. Sounds like a crappy weekend, right? Nope! I was thrilled. It gave me a perfect excuse to skip yard work. Now, don’t get me wrong: I don’t hate yard work or manual labor. I’m not afraid to get dirty or sweaty. Almost every weekend since we bought our house, I have spent the afternoons in the yard somewhere, pulling weeds, mowing grass, planting flowers, trimming, etc. But I won’t lie and say it wasn’t wonderful to have a break this past weekend.
It was a treat to be snuggled up inside with my husband, and just enjoy the day. We braved the rain one evening and went to dinner with my older stepson, and we ended up just sitting at the table long after we were finished eating, talking and telling stories.
On Sunday, I hated the idea of getting some housework done, but unless little cleaning fairies were going to materialize out of thin air, then I figured it was up to me. As soon as my husband saw me sweeping the floors, he grabbed the mop bucket and started filling it up. We teased each other as we got the cleaning done, and in no time the whole house was swept, mopped, vacuumed, and dusted. Done! Time to relax!
It was hard to get up this morning and get back to the grind. My husband didn’t want me to get out of bed, but my cat had a very different opinion on that, since he wanted his breakfast right NOW. (My cat has joined me on a diet, after his last weigh-in at the vet, so he is not a particularly pleased feline lately).
It’s going to be a busy week, so I sat down with my planner yesterday and scheduled my workouts for the week. I told my husband that one reason it’s been so hard to get back to working out is that I expect myself to leap back into running, Insanity, all the hard-core, intense, all-out workouts. And I’m not ready for that again yet. So this week, as long as I am moving, I don’t care what the workout is!
I was pleasantly surprised when I looked up my Beachbody on Demand account and saw that it doesn’t expire until September. For some reason I thought it expired this month. So I scrolled through and picked out a few workouts that look fun and a bit less intense than Insanity, something to just get me started again, get consistent again.
Hope everyone else had a great weekend too, and happy Monday!
Sweat & Sparkle 