my excuse this week

I really need to start exercising again. So I scanned over my scheduled and determined that I needed to eliminate the afternoon nap. Yikes--I love my afternoon nap, but that is the best time if I don't want to keep jumping on and off my elliptical refereeing, or, um, training my boys. So I stated my committment to my husband thinking he would be excited and could provide some accountability. He responded with some great hesitancy. It wasn't that he didn't want me to exercise. No, I think his exact quote was "um, well, you get kind of grumpy when you're tired". I have to admit he's right and kind of grumpy doesn't really describe it. I've always required more sleep then the general human. I can take a two hour nap in the afternoon, go to bed that night at 9:30 and sleep until at least 5am. So we decided to compromise. I would "rest" for around 30 minutes and then hop on the elliptical until I had to get the girls at school. It worked great on Monday. And then the massive snore- and cough- athon began at 4am on Tuesday morning and has occurred every morning since. Family colds do a horrible thing to a mom--they wake her up and then she can't go back to sleep and then she can't exercise the next afternoon because she has to take a nap. At least that's my excuse this week....