Who Knew?

Who knew roller skating was so much exercise? I expected to have sore legs. But I totally did NOT expect my upper arms to be sore. Or my stomach muscles. Or my glute muscles! OK, maybe, just maybe I can see why the glutes are sore. But the stomach and arms, too? So I asked P why he supposed that would be. His response, without batting an eye, "because of how tight you were holding the wall." Well, if holding the wall works the arms and the actual skating works the stomach, glutes and legs, I think I may have found the PERFECT exercise! It's fun, the whole family participates, it's relatively inexpensive and low-impact (except for the times I fall).

The major downside is that we can only make time to do it on Saturday afternoons. I'm pretty sure true exercise should be done more than once a week. Plus, if I'm at the roller skating rink every Saturday afternoon, I won't be home cleaning, sorting and organizing. And I was so tired that yesterday (Sunday) I did absolutely nothing.

Well, I guess that's not exactly true. I did go to church, the annual Fireman's BBQ and then our church's annual BBQ. The food was wonderful and it was great to just sit and visit with folks from church without really doing any church related work. And did I mention the food was really good? So much for all that exercise on Saturday...haha.

I'll have to figure out a better way of divying up the Saturday chores into the rest of the week because W has already asked me if I'll go again next week with him and P. I can see that I'll be losing a bit of sleep, staying up later and getting up earlier to get things accomplished. But in the end, when I'm spending some quality time with my family and making wonderful memories, it will all be worth it. They are the loves of my life and watching them have so much fun truly makes me joyous!