My, my, it feels like forever since I’ve blogged. It’s definitely not that I haven’t had a million things to talk about; it’s the time it takes to actually do it. Whew.
Things are going really great lately. I’m so happy being Monkey’s mom & we have really fallen into a great groove. Today we started Stroller Fit and while it’s not totally what I thought it would be, it’s fun!
What did I think it would be?
Well, for one thing, I didn’t think it would be very hard. I’m not in the best shape, but I thought that we’d be singing nursery rhymes to our babies while throwing in some jumping jacks. Let’s just say that I was completely wrong.
I guess I should have figured it out while I watched very fit moms getting out of their cars with their babies & strollers in tact… That should have been my first clue. I’m currently a solid size 10 & I was the biggest person there. Everyone else, and I’m not exaggerating, was a size 4 at the most.
(You know that I just wanted to drive away immediately, but I did not.) It’s just not too exciting to be the biggest person in a new exercise group, but I made it just fine.
So Stroller Fit…
We started marching in place. Easy, right? Then we did lunges & push ups while singing our babies the “ABC’s”. Then we ran across the park two times, back & forth, back & forth. (I was starting to fade here. I don’t run & I hate trying to pretend that I’m good at running.)
After running & being completely out of breath while everyone else seemed just fine, we lined up in the middle of the field & did side kicks & squats to the end of the field (it was far away). We did that four times & oh.my.gosh was it hard.
Then we did some arm stuff with resistance bands while singing to our little ones in the strollers. Next it was time for our long run. Ugh. We started running & had to cross the parking lot. I really wanted to take a tiny detour to my car that was parked, but I didn’t want to be that girl. As that thought was running through my head, the instructor said something like, “Y’all are moms. Y’all can do this.”
Oh damn, here I come running away.
After running, doing lunges, squats, side lunges, and more running, it was time for wall squats. Then we did some partner stuff with resistance bands, ran some more, and then did abs.
Stroller Fit was the kind of workout that I will definitely be doing every day that I can, but it’s also the kind of thing that I’ll sort of be dreading because it is hard. I know it will pay off & I love that Monkey will be around me (& other moms) exercising because I like what it teaches him. But, oy, I know I’m going to be sore.
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Yeah that sounds like the type of workout that will be really effective–Good job
Wow that does sound pretty intense! I’d never heard of strollerfit before and just looked it up, I think there are only a couple in my area and it looks like one is currently inactive. Do you have to pay or do you just show up?
That sounds awesome! Difficult, I’m sure, but it’s good to challenge yourself. And I bet you’ll see some results that you like very quickly!
Good for you! I know it’ll get easier each time. I wonder if stroller fit is in my area… Sounds like something I might want to do. Keep up the good work, Jane!
I’m a member of a similar program called Stroller Strides and let me tell you, after 5 months of classes there are STILL days that I wake up sore (like today)! But I’ve gone down two jean sizes and get comments all the time about how much better I look so I keep going – at least 4 times a week. The baby loves it too and has such a great time at every class. Good for you for sticking it out!
Good for you. At least it will be effective, if you continue. In no time, you’re going to be feeling like one of those size 4 moms. And a size 10 is just fine. Stop beating yourself up about sizes, please, and comparing yourself to others. I do weight watchers, and as they say there, just walking through the door is the biggest step. So keep going and you’ll be doing half the battle!
I’m going to see if there’s one in my area right now.
Sounds like an awesome class! I know I’m going to miss a lot of those classes since I’ll be going back to work FT in an office after baby is born, but atleast during the 12 weeks I’ll be home, I’ll make sure to take FULL advantage of those mommy and baby classes. I can’t wait!! Good luck! You’ll do great!!
Sounds like too much work for me. I lack the coordination to even attempt any type of aerobic activity. I lost all my baby weight very quickly, I am one of those size 4 moms. I work full time and spend alot of time going up and down the stairs at work is how I got my body back. hang in there….
I was very thin in junior high and I was still wearing a size 8-10. I’d have to have hip bone removal surgery to be a size 4. Not even possible!
I’d love to get fit again, turn this fat to muscle! But be a size 4? Nah!
Don’t let it even bother you, just keep moving and having fun with it!!!
So this is just gonna sound mean, but this is an anonymous blog and we are all adults, right? Jane, what happened? When this was a pregnancy blog, you were so candid an funny about what you were going through. I was preggo along with you and enjoyed reading a blog that was honest and common. But now it’s just an overly apologetic bore. Was is the post partum depression or just too many criticisms? I dunno, but I feel like your blogs are just the dullest forced ditherings of a very bored woman. Be funny again. Don’t apologize. Rant if you want! But spare the once a week boring posts…we know you love monkey! All mamas love their babies…now let’s hear about the silly stuff, not the orchestrated “mommy blogs”. No harm if I stopped reading, just enjoyed following because I have an 8 month old too. Get real again?
I wish I has signed up for when my guy was younger. I did a bootcamp class at my gym. Near the end a bunch of moms showed up with their strollers needless it was stroller fit. The same instructor who taught bootcamp taugh stroller fit. I couldn’t walk for 2 days following boot camp so I bet the moms felt the same way. You can do it.
My wife used to run around the streets pushing her stroller! Doubt she’ll be doing the same with this one!
Great blog!
Can I just say thank you thank you thank you thank you for your blog. Thanks for sharing your journey of motherhood with everyone and anyone.
I just got done reading your blog and all the responses on breastfeeding, and it has me in tears.
It has also encouraged me to keep breastfeeding for one more day, one more week, one more month. I can’t believe how many girls out there feel JUST like I do about breasfeeding, and I am SO appreciative that you started this dialogue. It was just what I needed.
Someone mentioned “You don’t have to like every minute of being a mother or having a new baby” and that was like a weight off my shoulders. My darling girl is 2 months old now and while I love her to peices, sometimes I don’t like the breastfeeding, the crying, or the poopy diapers. And I guess that’s ok, and others feel that way too!
So THANK YOU for all the encouragement. I can’t express my thanks enough. Keep it up, you made my day/week/month.
Jane? We miss you. Are you on vacation?
I was just thinking the same thing, its been over 2 weeks. Hope everything is ok
Hi Jane – I only recently found your blog and I so wish I had known about it last year. I had a baby girl around the same time you gave birth to Monkey. I went through so many of the same things as you, almost to the point that I felt I could have written the exact words in your blog. I suffered from postpartum depression and anxiety, had many difficulties breastfeeding and finally gave it up, and wish I had been there reading all of your entries during that whole dark period in my life. Thank you so much for doing this; it would have helped me so much to know that someone else was going through this at the same time.
I’ve been checking back daily and hope that everything is ok and that there is another entry soon.
Hm. I am losing hope that you will be back… I hope you are okay, and that Little Monkey, and Tarzan are well also.
Hellooooooooo? I thought for sure you’d be back after I got back from my own vacay.
Hey Tarzan and Jane, I haven’t posted on here for a REALLY long time but I have been lurking. Just making sure everything is ok?? Haven’t seen you on here or twitter for awhile. Show signs of life! lol.
Little worried about you, I started reading while pregnet with my little boy hope all is ok.
Jess
Hi Jane,
I stopped reading your blog because I noticed you haven’t updated it in a while and when I checked today, I noticed the number of comments on this last blog is growing! People (including myself) are wondering where you have gone? I hope you are okay, please give us a response good or bad as to what you have been up to these days.
Well, I guess after this week, I will not continue to check your blog
It is just depressing to not see anything, or to know if you will even be back. After following through more than half of my pregnancy, even a goodbye would be nice. Not just… nothing.
I do want to take the time to thank you for helping me find the humor during my pregnancy, dealing with postpartum depression, and everything that goes along with it. I seriously do hope that you are all okay. Even though it is an annonymous blog, and we dont really ‘know’ you, many of us feel connected to you now. And it would be a lot easier to say goodbye if we knew you were okay, or that you had made a decision to stop writing. If it is because something terrible has happened, then I know we would all like to show our support for you.
Best of wishes.
where are you?
one of those who checks often…and is wondering where you have gone! did Stroller Fit swallow you up? Hope not!
LOL @ Megan R. comment. I too am hoping stroller fit didnt gobble you up.
I hope others dont think this is intentional. I am convinced something happened. I am confident if Jane and Tarzan were done with the blog they would just say so in a goodbye post. I hate to think something horrible or permanent happened
When you come back I will be here to read. My thoughts are with you and your family.
Worried as well! Hope nothing bad has caused the break in communication…
Hey Jane, I also hope everything is OK… I love your blog. As an aside, I never understand the negative commenters. If you don’t like what you’re reading go somewhere else, it’s not like you’re out any money.
I’ve been a lurker and enjoying your site. This is the first time I read through all the comments for this particular post.
I came upon Millie’s harsh comments: Hey, Millie, if you don’t like what you are reading go elsewhere or start your own blog. Don’t put pressure on someone who is being extremely sharing of her life with us.
I hope that rude people like Millie aren’t the cause for the blogs ceasing. Most of the people commenting seem to love you and your writing (as do I). Even if you don’t write anymore, please know that this lurker and mom-to-be has enjoyed your posts.
good for you! It has taken me 8 months to get motivated to do something. I joined the LA Fitness near my house & have been getting up at 5:00 am to work out before leaving for work. i joined because i sooo need to work out & they have a kids klub so i can bring the kids with me on the weekend. my 4 yr old loved it but the 8 mo old, not so much (they had to get me at one point since she was crying). but loving it so far (i am a gym rat so i just needed the kick in the butt to do it again). good luck!
Hope all is well with all of you. Miss hearing about monkey and how the family is doing.
Hi everyone – Thanks for your concern; we are all doing just fine. I’ll post a blog soon about what’s been going on & why I haven’t blogged in a while. I hope to get it up either today or tomorrow, so please check back.
Jane
Whew good to know youre alive, I hope well also! Can’t wait to read whats been going on, Im really hoping nothing terrible though!
Miss you Jane and Tarzan! I have grown to depend on your blog and miss reading about your family because you are SO much like mine. Stay at home Mom with work at home Husband. You have no idea how much alike we are. New baby and PPD and all… please come back soon!
Bye-bye, Jane, Tarzan, and Monkey! Or at least for now — it doesn’t seem like you’ll be updating your blog as frequently as you used too. Perhaps you have found that ::gasp!:: blogging is no longer a high priority for you. LOL, that’s 100% okay and understandable, but for what its worth, it was so wonderful to read your candid, heartfelt account of pregnancy and parenthood firsts. I have been checking every day for updates and find myself crestfallen over and over again, so I’ve decided to give it a rest and maybe check back in a few months. It’s been real! Enjoy this very special time, and all the best to your family. x0
I check this blog every day hoping for an update! Hope it comes soon!
Ok, so I lied. Not on purpose… I just couldn’t help it, and checked back to see if there was anything new. A comment from Jane!!!! But… no post?
Like everyone else…I’ve been checking to see if there’s anything new posted from Jane…I guess not yet. Jane did say everything was okay so, I am assuming she has been and still is super busy.
Still nothing?! Hmmm, hope everything’s really alright. I hate when blogs I’m following die. There’s usually not much warning. I hope that’s not the case here.
I’ve been following for almost a year now but have never commented. I pretty sure I live in the same area as you Jane, but I check every day for updates, hope one comes soon and hope everythings alright !
hmmmm….one month and still nothing? i think this blog is dead. what about that post you promised days ago? shame
Well this is just rude honestly. You could at least write a little something. Don’t tell us you’ve been too busy for a month to let your followers know what’s going on.
I totally agree with Milly.
Odd to say you were going to post and not follow through. Hope you are ok – post something, even if it is a goodbye.
Bummer, nothing kills a popular blog quicker than silence. Sad to see it happen here.
Euu-Hoo anybody there?? Did tax season eat you up? I have really enjoyed your blog and was hoping for an update by now. You have always blogged so candidly before, that is a quality I have really apperciated about your site.
I can’t speak for everybody, but me personally I felt like I almost ‘knew’ you, and I never thought you were the type of person to just up and leave. It’s dissapointing honestly when you say you are going to post “today or tomorrow” and it’s five days later. I’m still holding out hope but it’s dimming by the day, that you will actually be back.
I really hope you guys are okay!! I’ve been checking Twitter everyday and here every once and a while. I hope Tarzan, Monkey, and you are okay!!! I’m really worried! Post just a quick note to tell us your all okay if you can!! We all miss you!! Let us know you’re okay!!
I’m looking over some of these comments. Come on people!! Stop being so rude! There is definately a reason why she isn’t posting. She said there is a reason why she isn’t and just assuming she stopped posting because she wanted to stop writing the blog is way far fetched. Yes she hasn’t posted in forever but obviously there is something going on. Stop being so selfish and start being supportive. And yes it’s possible to be so busy you don’t have time for a post.
Jane just ignore all these rude people!
Thank you for writing that Ambria. Thank you Jane and Tarzan for sharing your blog with us and please–if you can–ignore the rude, pushy folks. All the best.
Thanks Ambria, Jenn, Emery, JaxyPants, Judy, MVP, & all you others that I am not mentioning… I just published a post updating you with everything that’s been going on. I’m sorry that I’m just getting it up today, but I’ve been really busy & this has been my first chance to really sit down & write something.
I do plan on posting more regularly now… maybe not daily, but definitely more regularly. Thanks for continuing to check back
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Wow I had been checking for new post I assumed Jane or Tarzan would write a post when they got around to it…. They did not sign a contract stating that they would post x amount of Posts a week month year etc… I did not even think to leave a nasty or rude comment,Why would I Jane and Tarzan write when it suits them.
I am very shocked at all the comments we do not know Jane or Tarzan so i think all the negative commentors should give them a break and get over themselfs really do you think you are that important that you need any kind of explanation for the drop in the amount of posts…