Time for Exercise??

     Before you have kids you go to the gym or do some kind of exercise because you have the time, you care about your looks way more and you want to be fit.  After you have kids you care about your looks, but they take second fiddle to everything else; you want to be healthy but you don't have the time to exercise. 
     I recently went to the doctor and he told me that I needed to start exercising.  Since I'm now 31 I figured that's the 'your getting old' speech.  I told him that I have no time to exercise, but I think my 4 kids keep me pretty active.  The doctor did not agree and instead went on about me staying alive for my kids.  Sigh, he just didn't get it.  I do not have the time.  I am up at 6 every morning, sometimes after my kids, and I go with at least 1 kid until 8 o'clock every night.  At 8 I am tired and just want to relax.  I know that I am not alone with my lack of time for exercise and this is probably a large part of the obesity that is running rampant across America. 
      Last night was the first time I have actively exercised in at least 4 years.  I don't exercise for a multitude of reasons besides the lack of time, the biggest being that I am so out of shape that to get to a mildly comfortable work out routine would take weeks/months of dedication.  I also have really bad knees, so I am limited on what I can physically do.  Last night I bit the bullet.  My friend Gina had her second child 9 months ago, and though she has lost the weight she is flabby for lack of exercise and wants to get in shape.  She works full time, so she is in the same boat at me with lack of time.  I met her at 8:15 at COC (our local community college) and ran two laps and walked one before they turned off the stadium lights.  Since we were already out and not totally winded we decided to walk the campus a couple of times.  All in all we probably completed close to a mile and a half.  Yay for me.  I do stairs every day, all day long carrying my 32 pound baby, so I'm apparently not as out of shape as I thought.  It's not my legs that hurt, but my lungs.  Did I smoke a pack yesterday, cause that's what it feels like!  I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep up the constant working out, especially with Chad's basketball schedule becoming more demanding in the next two weeks, but for now we are going to try to do this twice a week.  If nothing else my ass will be firmer, though maybe I should start lifting weights to get rid of my Oprah arms? Hmm, of course when would I have time?