10000+ steps.
Shopping – bought cake tins!
Swimming, badges 3-6 for Big, 2 for Small. Not a cheap night for me then 😉
I really wish I put a bit more detail into these draft posts. Or that I wrote them up closer to the day! This post has been sitting in draft for a week. Let’s see if I can detangle it.
The step count relates to the pedometer I’m wearing, which in turn relates to My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight
a DS game I bought for myself a month ago. You set it up with your personal info and it tells you how many steps you should be taking daily, gives you challenges, keeps track of your food intake against your exercise (you have to tell it what you’ve been doing of course) and overall just encourages you to keep active and manage your weight that way. I know I can’t diet while I’m still breastfeeding, but I can watch to make sure I’m not stuffing my face needlessly and I do find wearing the pedometer encourages me to keep a little more active. (Although the silly little plastic cover that protects the contacts fell off after about three days, so I’m wondering how long the whole thing will last. Probably longer if I could avoid dropping it like I did today, when it somehow contrived to land on the reset switch, losing my 2500 steps to that point!) All in all, for around £5 and given we already had DSes in the house, I thought this was a pretty good buy, though I don’t think I’d get a DS just to be able to run it 🙂
Note two – shopping. Not sure what else I bought, but do remember popping into the shop that took over when the coop sold off its homestores which is now in administration and shutting down itself 🙁 Got two cake tins, so sometime soon, I will make Great Aunt Bess’s chocolate cake recipe that I’ve found on a scrappy piece of paper inside one of the old recipe books on the shelf.
And note 3 – badge night. Big last got a badge sometime last year for passing Stage 2 whilst in yellow hats. Since then she’s rocketed up the groups so fast that she’s missed several assessments, so having been graded as passing Stage 6, she wanted the ones between. And Small passed Stage 2 as well 🙂 So it was an expensive night at £2 a badge! (Actually she wanted Stage 1 as well, but the guys on the desk were having enough problems understanding us buying badges that we didn’t have slips of paper for without adding in a stage 1. I’ll get it some other time.)
Apparently, they do up to stage 7 in the swimming lessons. Then they move on to some endurance awards which build up to them swimming a mile! And just in case she isn’t getting enough time in the water, I’ve provisionally signed her up for a Rookie lifeguard course that starts in September.
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