So it's friday night and I am exhausted, but sadly I miss my "weekends" as I am at home right now. With a very busy day yesterday and a pretty busy today as we are getting ready for a birthday celebration with family tomorrow you start to think I need 30 hours in a day not 24. However the cutest thing happened tonight, as I have been trying to do my situps everyday I again tried to do them tonight. Easy you would think except both my kiddo's are still awake. So Merv has the Little Man which is wonderful and I put on a movie for D.D. (honestly one of the only ways I get anything done) you think no problem until I am 20 situps in and from the bed bounces my princess. Yes she leaped from the bed directly onto me, okay so I'm exaggerating a little as a 2 yr old can't quite leap but from the bed she decended down onto mummy. Can I tell you how easy it is to complete a situp with a 2 yr old laying on your stomach. Needless to say I only did 40 tonight LOL!!! The happyness in my day!! Oh and sorry for any typos as D.D. is helping my type my blog tonight, sorry folks got to run as my precious jewel requires my attention. May you all have happiness in your long weekend!!!! ps running total is 570!!

Great day all. From pancakes to a walk, to the park, to making cupcakes with D.D., to chucky cheese, to eating cupcakes to playing with a new toy with my nephew Little J. as my sis calls him, to crashing by 915pm. With both kids down I managed to do my situps and let me tell you 120 was my count tonight. Making up for lost days so my total is now 530!!! On the down side granny isn't feeling her best, wishing Merv the best with his mom!! Since my kiddos are asleep I am going to take the time to get some myself, wishing everyone a very peaceful sleep tonight!!

Sooooo nothing yesterday. Merv has been home sick and yersterday I started to feel crummy. Today however I will do my best to make it happen. Since it is a special day in our house as my baby turns 2 today, my day is scheduled to her. That being said I think she understands somewhat that it is her day and so she is dictating what she wants...typical 2yr old already. Here is wishing naptime comes quickly and lasts awhile!!

As hubby still not well and a whole schwack load of stuff to do I wonder if I will ever keep up. Along with that debating nanny vs home daycare as childcare impossible to find that is good and I don't even have to go back to work anytime soon. However managed to do 90 situps today that makes my total 410 and Merv...still zero. Although he is looking more at the blog so maybe we will here from him soon. Happy tuesday all!!

Ok so I missed yesterday. On my behalf I had very little sleep that night so I had to keep moving through the day otherwise sleep would take over. Merv stayed home to help but ended up being more sick than I was tired. On the plus side I took the munchkins for an hour walk/play in 30degree weather, that was a hot one!! Then I played beach volleyball and could barely fuction when I got home. After a very brief shower/bath (D.D. never lets me shower solo) got the kiddos to bed, had a quick snack (yummuy popcorn, thanks Merv) and sleep took me quickly...thank the heavens. So my little man is 12 weeks old and slept for 8 hrs last night, thats right from 10pm last night to 6am this morning, I feel truly blessed, finally rested. Let us see what today will bring!!

So here are my excuses for not blogging/doing my situps yesterday... D.D. had gymnastics, we went to a friends cabin for the afternoon/evening, had to put the kiddos to bed, was tired etc. etc. Gosh how life gets busy! So today after coffee w/ my sister & her family I got home in time to put the kiddos down for a nap. And as I was very tired I thought about passing on the situps, but be proud because I pushed through my laziness and did 100 situps. Now as rules haven`t been set I have decided to do whatever situps I want, either side situps or crunches or reverse situps it is up to what I desire. Must go as very distracted by D.D. playing a xylaphone and Little man not enjoying the music - happy sunday to all!!

So again it is noon and I am wondering where my day has gone. If you haven't figured it out I am not at work right now and miss the adult conversation. Today however I had a friend over with her 1yr old - and as D.D. is just turning 2 we are learning about sharing or at least trying. I have managed to get my situps done while D.D. is eating lunch and Little Man is sleeping. Surprising I moved up to 100 even though it takes my breath away I figure that is the minimum I can do otherwise it will take me forever to get them done. My total is now 220 and Merv...zero. That's right he hasn't started although he works during the day and evenings are very busy. He has a physio appt today so maybe he will start there???? hmmm, any bets? :) My other goal is to walk 3 times a week and so far only once have I gone. It rained all afternoon yesterday and is supposed to continue today. As I have no rain shield for the kids I have yet to go again. I must get one for a double stroller plus a rain jacket for myself. I would really like one of the "running room" jackets but on a salary of zero it probably won't happen unless it is really cheap. I need to go out this afternoon and am wondering does walking around a store count as exercise?? Here's to wishing!! Hope you all have a wonderful sunny day!!

Alright, so I did 60 more situps today as yesterday I did zero. I thought I would give Merv a day to catch up as he had the family stuff going on. He had 2 hours at home by himself to get started...but didn't and since this is a race I guess he will just have to start when he is ready but I am not waiting. He did weigh himself so I know where he started but I will let him post his weight if he wants, that is his choice not mine. I find it very hard in a day with my Little Man and DD to get anything done and when you get 3 hours of sleep at night it doesn't make it very easy to get the energy to exercise... but that is my new mission. My thoughts are I am going to try to go for a walk with kiddos in stroller at least 3 times per wk. Sounds easy but its already 1pm and I am exhausted and not sure what happened to my morning. And let me tell you 650am is tooo early for me, especially when sleep didn't happen until after 1am this morning. So wish me luck with my new challenge, you know because apparently a million situps is just not enough!!!

So I forgot yesterday to mentioned that I went for a very lovely 45 min walk, oh and did I mention I am out of shape. LOL I came home with one very nice blister on the back of my heel and those shoes are not new!! So after finding out everything is okay with Merv's mom aka Granny I decided to pop the question again....."are you really up for this challenge?" He said yes, so here we are again, just waiting for him to get started. I am going out tonight and told him he would have about an hour tonight to get working (let's just see what happens I think). So as I am starting my journey I have decided to give up my secret addiction...diet cola, I gave my last one away while we had visitors and I have decided not to purchase any more cans. I will also do my best to not order diet cola while I am out at a restaurant, and let me tell you folks this is going to be a hard task as my favorite drink is rye with diet cola...sniff, sniff. Maybe I will just have to drink something else...any suggestions??

Well today I have started my situps. After about 60 my stomache was burning...holy cow did I forget about ab muscles!!! This is going to be a long journey!! That is okay it is one I want to take. I feel bad for Merv as there has been some family matters he has needed to deal with I don't think he is fully able to focus on our challenge...hopefully soon!

This is a sad day my friends, as I have been weighed and measured - yuck!! Unfortunately not something I want to share but will because in the end they are just numbers and when I am done they will be different.....so here it is: my weight is 203.2 and my hips measured at 48 with my waist at 39 inches. Now that we all know where I am at lets get this show on the road!! You are probably wondering about Merv, well he had daddy duty tonight as I play volleyball so Merv will just have to check in with us later. Hope to see you again soon.

Race to a million you must be wondering what I am talking about, a race to a million sit ups. Who would do that....ME and my husband (who let us be honest must think I am crazy). First let me say hello, my name is Andrea and my husband is Merv. As we are both a little on the "cheerfully chubby" side we were talking about exercise one day and I asked Merv how long would it take to get to a million situps if we did 100 per day, he said 10,000 days or 23 years...REALLY I don't have 23 years to get fit, we have 2 kiddos D.D. (aka destructive daredevil) who is a 2year old girl who knows what she wants and Little Man who is 12 weeks and is quite quiet in comparison to his sister. I need energy - which I don't always have and a lot of patience which I continually pray for. So I then asked "what about 1,000 situps a day ?" which turns out to be 1,000 days or just under 3 years. I challenged Merv at that point and said lets race to a million - we both need it and so he said sure! So here it is we are going to weigh, measure (ourselves) no need to get anybody else in this and it will be on the honour code - no cheating, we will race to a million. I think it will only be fair to give numbers as unhappy about them as we are and that way everyone will know how far we will have come from our start. We have yet to weigh and measure ourselves and I think it fair we do it together from one point to the end so look for our future post (and possibly pictures if I can manage to figure it out). Our terms are not yet set for what the "winner" will get and as I think at the end we will both be winners with a healthier body and hopefully lifestyle it will have to be something we both enjoy. So with that being said look forward to a future post with and exciting yet scary start to the next "3" years!!