We rejoined the Y yesterday ;-) While there were a lot of good reasons not to (mainly keeping a chunk of money in our pockets each month) there were a lot of things going against me as I tried to work out at home. Benjamin himself, hehe, babies cry and need to be picked up and loved. Rearranging the living room each morning to do step was getting really old. And since we heat our house with wood, the blazing fire Andy starts before he leaves for work was REALLY not helping the livingroom workout.

There was also the cabin fever:

(Please tell me you’ve seen Muppet Treasure Island!)

So I dropped Ben off at Child Watch this morning and had a nice, focused workout. Dropping him off was weird and surreal. There’s the whole “this is the first time you’re leaving him with strangers” thing, but even more so I remember being in Y babysitting while my mom exercised. I remember the graham cracker snacks, cardboard blocks that looked like bricks, play kitchen, cubbies of toys…

There was even a little girl there with an eye patch and big glasses, just like yours truly as a kid ;-)

And then there was the weirdness of having worked Y babysitting while I was in highschool. It was different dropping my kid off when I used to be the one there watching other people’s kids.

Ben did great though and I had an excellent work out. I’m definitely glad I didn’t wait any longer to rejoin!