Getting up at 6am

Now I know most of you will say "Wahhh, Wahhh, Laura.  SO tough getting up at 6am" and under different circumstances, I would probably agree with you.  I mean, Handsom Hubby's alarm goes off at 6:15am every day and I know a few people who get up at 5am.  However, I think I deserve even more credit than any of them.

"Why?" you ask?  Because I have already been up at 1am or 2am or 3:30am to feed Cutie Chubba, tried to go back to sleep after being up for anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour to then get up at 6am to exercise!  Come on people!  Where's the applause???   Aren't you so VERY impressed by me??? ;)  I know, I know, BIG WHOOP!

Well, Cutie Chubba was my FINAL baby and I am DYING to get this baby weight off!  However, it's a bit more complicated finding time to exercise than it was prior to my Wife/Mommy days.  Even different than my Mommy days with just one munchkin.

See, I'm hoping to go from some version of this:

To some version of this:

I had been doing P90X and really liked it.  However, finding 1 hour to 1.5 hours to work out 6 days a week with 2 little kids and a hubby that works 2 jobs is difficult (if not frustrating) to say the least.  I'd try to do it during naptime but, alas, someone would inevitably decide they did NOT want to nap.  I'd try to do it in the evening but if Handsome Hubby was home (rare) so he could take the child responsibilities, I was often too exhausted by that point to want to do anything but snuggle on the couch with Hubby (and a cocktail, many days.  You know the ones), watch Two and a Half Men and fall asleep.

SO, after listening to me complain about being fat and not having time to exercise for the 10 zillionth time, Handsome Hubby (at the risk of losing a favorite appendage) suggested that I get up EARLY and exercise.  Yes, folks, he is a ballsy one isn't he?  Well, after biting my tongue so as not to slice and dice him for such an inane idea...I thought about it. 

It kind of made sense.  I mean, that way, I got the workout out of the way and the rest of the day I could go about my business without always getting frustrated cuz it just wasn't going how I needed it to go to fit in a workout.  

Plus, I have a 2 year old and a 4 month old.  I'm already exhausted AND look like crap so what would be any different if I got up a little earlier?

Well, folks, I did it today.  I got up at 6am (okay, the alarm went off at 6am and I got out of bed at 6:13am, close enough) and did one of my exercise DVD's plus Wii Fit for 45 minutes and I have to say, my day has been a whole lot less frustrating! 

Handsome Hubby was heading out the door to work when he asked me "How do you feel?"  I was a bit confused by that question, I mean, it's not like I lost 20 pounds after the first workout.  "What do you mean?" I asked.  He said, "Well, how does it feel to have a say in how you start your day?" 

It felt good.  And with that, I realized, as a Stay at Home Mom of two little guys, that was really what I needed.  A say.  An opportunity to have a say in what I did and when I did it.  It doesn't just happen like it did before kids or marriage.  Now there is always someone else you have to consider or whose needs come first or who, to be honest, is just the squeakier wheel.  But this was something I could decide.  And boy does it feel good.