Welcome to the mom game, where ketchup is a food group and the points don’t matter.
A few years ago I had what could charitably be described as a “frog butt”. You know, the kind where you stand up and it actually kind of dips in? Yeah. Me.
So my friend started a fitness type group and well all decided to do a thirty day squat challenge and I jumped on it. My hope was to get a butt that was just flat, not indented. We aim big around here.
Step One- Download the graphic and tell everyone I was doing this challenge. Its harder to back out if people are asking you how its going
Step Two- Pull up you tube and figure out how the hell to do a squat. There is something about knees and toes but since I hang with toddlers and it doesn’t involve head and shoulders as well, I need a fit young you tuber to make it look way easier than it actually is.
Step Three- do squats and whine. Don’t need a video for that one, the toddlers know it best.
Okay so I do this for like a week and everything is going great but at about day eight I just don’t wanna. My legs are tired, my attitude is bad and there is a hole in my favorite black leggings. So I sit on the couch and along comes little almost two year old Rowan. He wants to know why I didn’t do my “ec-er-size”. I told him I was tired and he informed me that was okay, he would do it for me.
In all my motherly wisdom I said “Yeah okay, you do that”.
And he did.
This little baby did the most picture perfect squats ever and he just smiled away while he did them. Happy as he could be. He paused and danced and went right back at it.
So I got up and I did the stupid squats. I’m out of breath and dying and he is still going, living his best baby life.
My point is, find your motivator. Some days it is an accountability kid, some days it is my fitness group, some days its a little black dress. Get shown up by a toddler now and then, that seems to do the trick for me. I have a whole butt now, its crazy.
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