By Way of Introduction.

My baby turned one, and I knew it was time.  It is time to Start Something.

I am married, and we have three children.  I work outside the home, and a part of my title is a coordinator.  At home, I have also been told that I am the coordinator.  Or as Bryan usually puts it, I am the management and he is the labor.  He thinks that’s hilarious.  I’m undecided.  There is an awful lot to coordinate.

There is a woman I know named Katy, and I believe that we are becoming good friends.  Katy sent me a link to IowaMoms.com and in about 11 seconds, I had written to my husband to tell him I wanted to try something new.  My husband is a very patient man.

“What do you know something about?”  Katy had asked.  And I thought, well, I know how to coordinate things?  But there is more to it than that.  I’m a woman with a career, a husband, and children ages 6, 3, and 1.  Anyone with a similar schedule knows that simply means busy, and anyone who doesn’t live with small children won’t quite get it no matter how I describe the mundane duties that go along with it, all day, every day.  My best friend says “it is what it is” and I think I’ve got the routine down.

What I’m most proud of is that I make time for fitness every single day.  This is what I’d like to write about.  Recently, for reasons I may decide to discuss at another time, I have heard a lot of comments like “I don’t know how you do it.”  And I try to smile and say “oh, it just takes some organization.”  But in my head, I automatically think, “How I do it?  Sometimes, I’d just like to know why I do it.”  So here I am, and I hope to answer both of those questions and more.