Welcome to Motherhood

So you think when a new baby enters your life you get welcomed into Motherhood, you do but here is another way I felt welcomed into Motherhood recently.  

It was midnight, after hubby and I had been out for the night, that I wake up to B crying.  I figure he woke up and maybe had an accident.  Those things upset him for reasons I still don't know.  I head to his room where he is standing close to the the door and as I step in to check to see if he is wet, I step right into a mushy puddle in front of him.  Oh boy, after 4 years of life, sweet B had never thrown up and had no idea what was happening to him.  I quickly clean up the mess, get him to the bathroom and hold his head while he proceeds to get sick again, in the toilet this time.  Then I do as my mom did, I put him to bed, get the bucket and a damp cloth out for him and tell him it will be okay and try to rest.  I crawl back in bed and 20 minutes later I hear him again.  Run to his room, help him with the bucket and settle him back down, then go back to bed.  This routine goes on for a few hours before I realize I am better off staying in his room at the end of his bed and helping him when needed until morning.  And trying to get some rest myself squeezed into a twin bed with my 4 1/2 year old.

Motherhood that night took on a whole new meaning to me.  I did count my blessing that B had never gotten that sick in his first 4 yrs and that he is at an age now that he can somewhat understand what being sick is.  I can't imagine what it would be like for a 2 or 3 yrs to be that sick but I am sure I will have a story about J long before he reaches 4 1/2.  I don't think I could be that lucky again.

What's Zumba all about?

Have you heard of it?  It's all the new fad in exercise right now.  Zumba!

Our family joined the YMCA this summer and as I looked over the list of different group classes, I came across Zumba.  What's that?  Not heard of that one.  Let me preference this with the fact that I have not been a member of a gym in a very long time, actually have I ever, I'll have to think about that one.  I, along with my husband, are very outdoorsy people, and would prefer to exercise outside than be couped up in a facility somewhere.  Well, that's for another post.  Back to Zumba.

I've heard of aerobics, step, yoga, pilates but Zumba throw me for a loop.  Well, after attending some spin classes (which I thought I would never like either) I started asking around about Zumba.  Everyone had the same comment, "It's so much fun and you will get addicted once you start going"  I never really got an answer to what it was but it was suppose to be fun.  Well, here is the description from our YMCA

 

"ZUMBA: New and exciting class.  Heart pounding cardio Latin dancing combining the basics of Salsa, Cha-Cha, Meringue & Samba, to get your heart rate up burn calories and tone your muscles"

So here it is five months after joining the Y and I finally get the nerve up to give it a try.  I had always meant to take a class, but excuses just got in the way.  I hadn't been using our membership as often as I needed to be so I decided last week to give it a shot.  Zumba here I come!  Now let me say, I am not a great dancer by any stretch of the imagination.  I could always handle a step class but when it came to an aerobics class, I was ALWAYS on the wrong foot.  Now remember from the description, this is a Latin Dancing form of exercise.  Last Friday, I show up and luckily I wasn't the only new person in the class, but the instructor says there are a lot of repetitious steps so she won't be going over them now.  Basically, you are on your own, but in a nice way.  I take a glance around the room, there are all types in here, some are very intimidating but other I think I could probably hang with.  The music starts and we start shaking everything.  As long as I concentrated on the instructor and not the crazy ones in front of the class and definitely not the mirrors all around me, I was able to keep up with most moves.  I made it through my first class and can say I worked up a sweat, got my heart rate to a reasonable rate and had fun.  I even went back for a second class today.

So, if you have a Zumba class at your gym and haven't tried it, I highly suggest it.  But remember, don't look at yourself in the mirror, you will think you look foolish jiggling your body all around.  Just have fun and it really doesn't feel like exercise at all.