A Backyard Visitor and a Medicine Ball Workout (STUFT Mama)

Slept in a little this morning. Not the plan and I guess I need to start my 21 days over to form my 5:00 am wake up habit again, but oh well. A little extra time in bed and a few quite moments to get my head in the game and this with my little guy was worth it.

It was too perfect also that as we were reading this we could hear the birds chirping outside.

Still got myself to the treadmill relatively early. Decided it was time to break in my new Mizuno kicks.

They might be the shoes I wear next week for the Boston Marathon, so I thought I should probably get a few miles on them. Lately I’ve been racing in the Wave Sayonara so we’ll see how it goes.

The New Girl was the morning entertainment. Funny that the episode I watched it took them 3 hours to finish a 10K.

Let’s hope I’m not crossing the finish line like that next week. Ha.

I started at an 8:15 pace and went a little faster each episode. Three episodes total for an easy 8.22 miles at a 1.5 incline.

All smiles afterwards.

Yep, I always wear the safety clip and I always use old baby bath towels. They work the best.

Here’s a couple more things from the weekend before I give you a little workout for the week.

Um, the coolest jumpy ever at a birthday party yesterday.

Yep, it was pretty much the same size as our house.

And speaking of our house, we had a little visitor yesterday in our backyard.

Lovely.

Last night I did some late night work and took your advice to make my popcorn sweet with coconut oil, molasses, cinnamon and my favorite cocoa powder. I chilled in in the freezer for a bit to harden the coconut oil.

It was delightful, although a little messy to eat in the office. I won’t be doing that again.

I also ordered two new different popcorn kernels to try from Amazon. I’ll do a little test to see if there really is a difference or not. I feel like all air popped popcorn is the same, but what do I know.

Wait, I do know that this dark chocolate bar from Trader Joe’s is good stuff. It went well with the popcorn.

Okay, so the other day I did a quickie backyard workout with a medicine ball. It was about 20 minutes, but kicked my bootie.

So, you know, thought I’d pass it along.

Here’s the workout first.

Here are some pictures my “coaches” took along the way. The only move that didn’t get a photo was the side to side lunges.

The cool thing about this is that you can pretty much do it anywhere. If you don’t have a medicine ball you can use a hand weight and just do regular push ups. The boys even had fun doing some of the moves with me.

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