Here we go

Baby is climbing everything! Pushes chairs closer so he can climb onto the tables and knock stuff off it. I swear he thinks he's a cat!
The 4 year old is being such a handful too, I know it's a ploy for more attention. I love her to pieces but the pretending to be dumb to drag out school time is driving me nuts. Hey she's advanced we can take a break from school for a few days as a punishment for throwing fits. Threatening no book club is getting lots of stuff done. I feel weird to have a mini me who is punished more with taking books away than taking games away. The whole lose all your toys for bad behaviour did not work with this one.
She is such a great sister it is so frustrating when she acts up in other aspects. She is willing to feed her little brother but won't tell me what sound the letter 'A' makes. She will read the words 'Batman', 'cat', 'and', 'friends', 'Sofia', 'princess' and 'dinosaur' but won't tell me what comes after 4! She is so smart but so challenging at times.
I haven't had nearly as much time to read or write these days because school time is dragging on much longer than it should. With some late nights though I have made some good progress on the prologue of Love Slave #2 . I have not done any research for my Montana plant guide. I also need to either get a camera to take pictures of plant species when we go camping or find someone willing to do the plant photographing for cheap as I am broke.
My tea review blog has turned into a tea and coffee review blog. I have written a few posts during breakfast when the kiddos are stuffing their face but I have not been able to have a good afternoon tea yet hopefully today is the day.
anyways baby is getting cranky lets pray for a good nap today.

exercising and being a stay at home mom

They say you need an hour of exercise a day at least to stay healthy along with eating right. But between chores and baby how do you exercise? Well when the baby is a newborn as long as you eat healthy you should only worry about doing 20 minutes of yoga a day and don't worry about losing the baby weight just yet. You're a new mom it's ok to have a little pouch for the first year. But once your baby can entertain her/himself it's ok to start working out. One way is to do chores while baby naps and exercise in their room while they play. Another way if you take baby to the park you can do stretches on the way their and cardio while s/he plays with the other children. personally I get my chores done while she plays in the living room, but I'm lucky enough to have an open kitchen so I can see her playing from every room in my house. Some moms cook dinner while baby naps and have baby follow and play in the rooms they are working in. Laundry is still a process I was doing it when she went to bed. But I cloth diaper and want to sun them and she wakes up so early it's hard to get it done before she wakes up. My laundry room isn't very baby friendly so I have to get laundry done before dad goes to work so he can watch her for me. once chores are done, I've read her a story and put her down for a nap i do 30 minutes of cardio I get other other 30 minutes done in yoga before bed after she goes to bed.I haven't kept track of how much I've lost but my pants do feel looser. It's all about balance you can do it and you will feel great about yourself when you bring balance to your life.