Often on mornings like today I find myself trying to decide between going to the gym or doing some other activity with my kids.
This is when the mommy guilt kicks in and says "Your kids will only be young once. You need to make sure every waking hour is full of some life developing activity." Then my physical body chimes in " You neeeeeed exercise...without it you are not the nice mommy you want to be!" Then the "want to please my kids" Mommy says "just wait until this evening when the husband comes home and then you can actually run outside!"
Physical body..."Don't try to pull that one on me...you know that when Dad gets home all you want to do is hang out with him and the kids."
Back and forth they argue until finally I put my gym clothes on and drag lazy rear-end and children to the gym. Then later in the day post-workout, I remember that indeed I am a much nicer mommy after I have worked out.
So the question is...why do I have all the dialog and indecisiveness in my mind when inevitably the result is the same?
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I guess I'm still a young mother, I get to do work out videos while Micah takes a nap. But someday that option wont work. Hmmm, maybe I will start going to the gym. Micah loves playing with other toys....
I was riddled with guilt today too, I evn wrote about it. I think, however, that working out is a MUST for a happy Mom.
we start moving today...and have all of april to move...so nice!
Kind of sounds like schizophrnia. We all have it but with most of us the other one wins
I just wrote the last anonymous comment but sighned out wrong. There were lots of sirens a few minutes ago and now helicopter sounds. Natalie just called or I would be greatly worried. Such is the life of a paranoid oarent schizophrniac of which one day you will join ranks with. Then you can argue with 3 voices instead of 2
forget the h in sighned-that other voice told me it was right but as I read the comment yet another voice said it was wrong.
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