Back to the drawing board and 1st birthdays!!

I was so excited about getting to work out in the early a.m. and I felt so good going in to work every morning after a good workout.  Then I went to go to my first day of Master's swim a group I found near by so that I could swim 5-6 am and still make it back in time to the house to spend 1 hour with my little guy before heading to work and I thought that way hubs won't even complain that it's too hard for him to get ready in the mornings and take care of "A" but I showed up and it was pitch dark.  Apparently the pool was closed for a few days something had gone wrong.  I guess that was a sign!  Because when I got home that day hubs ever so kindly told me that my leaving and coming from workouts was waking our son up and that I should "figure something else out"  I was so completely bummed for the rest of the day! :-(  I guess it's a good thing I didn't pay the monthly fee.

I built up the courage and crafted a very nicely worded email to my boss asking for possible flex time to be able to get exercise in (which makes me a more productive worker) while still meeting my childcare and work obligations.  I figured ideally I could come in at 7:30 take half hour lunch and leave to they gym by 4 and still be home by 5:30 to take care of the kiddo, voila!  If that doesn't meet his fancy I offered to also consider coming in at 7:30 and taking a 1 1/2 lunch and working out then, but this would mean I'd come back to work gross and stinky, and still leaving at 5.  Of course being an exempt employee means these things can change if a deadline needs to be met or a meeting comes up.  I haven't heard back from him yet! :-( 

So if I get turned down there my only option left will be to go back to exercising at 7pm after I've put "A" down for the night.  We all know my track record with that has been dismal!!  I'm either starving because I haven't eating or stuffed because I did eat and I'm so tired by then it's very hard to be motivated to push myself and do anything other than the minimum!  It would also mean I probably wouldn't be eating much of a dinner just a snack to hold me through the exercise and another snack to hold me through the night when I got back and this means hubs is on his own for dinner and would probably go back to eating (ummm not as healthy) but that's on him.  But if it's my only option it's my only option and I need to find a way to make it work!  I know, I know first world problems!  I refuse to give up my exercise and ideally I'd like to still exercise enough to get back to doing triathlons.  Anyone out there that has tips on late evening exercise I'm all ears.

Ok for the fun stuff.  It was my son's 1st birthday this last weekend and we had so much fun!  I know this one is mainly for the parents but he got to have his very own cake and very first taste of sugar.  We're back to fruits for dessert but he

enjoyed everyone clapping for him when he took his first bite so much that every bite after that he'd look at everyone and start clapping so that they would clap again.  It was so cute!!!  He's such a trooper I love this kid!!!