Family fun at the park, and some pull-ups

We had such a fun time at the park yesterday. The kids carried their tennis rackets and we walked there and spent about 1.5hrs just mucking about together (making Daddy run after the tennis balls was apparently a highlight ;) ).

I got the husband to lift me up to the lowest bar (seriously, my feet are about a metre off the ground here at full hanging point ;)) and rapped out a couple of pull-ups.

I've been working hard on these lately and doing lots of upper body work. I could've done more, but figured I'd already shown off enough ;) Besides, I wanted to play tennis too :)

I don't get to physically see my muscles in action much, so I do have to say, me likey very much :)

 

Broken bones won't slow him down

Small boy child has fractured his hand.

He's not allowed to play, but nobody said anything about mucking about with his team beforehand ;)

 

Still smiling

Still smiling :)

My girl is almost through her first stage of nrol supercharged. Just the basics, and she's loving it. She upped her goblet squats and rows today and was quite chuffed with herself ❤

I'm just so glad we've found something we both enjoy and I love spending one-on-one time with her in the gym 😊

Healthy afternoon snacks

Channeling my inner ‘perfect mother’ as I get afternoon tea ready for my kids (and their friends, there are always extras lol) at cricket.

Meh, who am I kidding? They’ll eat this lot. And they’ll also eat the packet of crisps I have in the cupboard for the next after school activity when I couldn’t be bothered packing a cooler bag.

My kids are active. They eat fruit & vege. They also eat crisps, chocolate (dairy free, gluten-free and cocoa free… no I am not kidding *sigh* white is still sorta classified as chocolate?) and pretty much whatever they can get their hands on.

The girl did several kms in the pool in the morning and will play cricket in the afternoon, after having playing sport at school. The boy did school swimming and cricket this afternoon and may convince me to go for a run afterwards. That’s if they don’t jump in our backyard pool when we get home.

They never, ever stop. So I think they’re doing ok

Going for a run with my boy.

I dragged the small boy child out of the house on Sunday afternoon to go for a run. Mostly to get him out of the house and to give his sister some time and space to work on her assignments.

I wasn’t expecting too much. And I may have assumed that he would give up within 10-15 minutes lol But I dutifully turned on my Endomondo tracker and we set off.

Well, apparently he likes the whole map thing, and being able to check how far you’ve gone and where on the map you are. Whenever we got to a spot where we could choose one way or the other, he would ask which was the longest way, and then choose that! 50 minutes and 3.97km later (okay, that included stopping to look at the insane number of bats roosting in some trees, waiting at traffic lights and getting a drink from the service station ;) ), we arrived back home and he was pretty buzzed. He wants to go out again on Wednesday afternoon after school. We’ll have to take big sister with us, and she’s not exactly known for her running stamina, but we’ll play it by ear and see how we go

But I’m very pleased to have a little running buddy. I’d forgotten how much fun it was. And it was fun – he was in charge of when we walked/ran/sprinted etc, and we both had a really good time.

Stop demonising food.

I’m not in favour of demonising any food. Food is just food. There is nothing inherently ‘evil’ about one particular type over another.

Here’s a little story for you:

My son has Coeliac Disease, is lactose-intolerant and has an issue with a particular preservative. In Prep he wanted to be just like the other kids so he asked for a sandwich for lunch. The only gluten-free, dairy-free, preservative-free bread I could find (all my home attempts at that time failed miserably!) was a white bread. He was so happy to have a ‘normal’ lunch.

Until he came home from school one day with an uneaten sandwich and in tears.

Why? Some lovely little child had bailed him up at lunch time and told him that white bread was unhealthy. That it was really bad for you and he should be eating brown bread >>because her mother said so<<.

What works for one will not always be applicable to another. We’re all just doing the best we can.

Food for everyone to eat.

While grocery shopping today, we were looking at the wide variety of foods available – that we couldn’t eat due to various intolerances or allergies – and my girl says, “Mum, when I grow up, I’m going to make foods that are safe for everyone to eat and I’m going to sell them so that everyone has something to eat.”
That’s my girl