Wiiiiiiii!

Last week we made a purchase that I'm pretty sure is going to save our lives.

We bought a Wii and a Wii Fit.

Why, do you ask, will it save our lives?

Have I mentioned that I haven't exercised regularly since 1994?

You think I'm kidding.

Way back in my senior year of high school, a friend talked me into joining the track team. She was going to do hurdles, and since I have long legs, I thought they would be easy. HAH! I've never been athletic, and I had never exercised up until that point.

Did I mention my recently ex-boyfriend was also on the track team? I wanted to keep tabs on him wanted him to see how miserable I was wanted him to see that I could live without him.

I was in the best shape I have ever been in while in track. I also had more of what you would call a "tan" while in track...which actually means that my skin was the same color as most people's untanned skin (I am usually a glow-in-the-dark white). I remember the first week of track, we did circuits - up the stadium stairs, down the stadium stairs, halfway around the track, 30 situps, the other half of the track, 20 pushups, up the stairs, down the stairs. Five times around the track total.

I couldn't walk for three days afterward. I had to scoot on my bottom down the stairs in my house to get to my basement bedroom.

But I digress.

So, I haven't exercised since 1994, besides a yoga class my friends tortured me with invited me to attend in 1997.

So, we have had the Wii Fit for six days now. My shins really hurt for the first few days. When I first started it asked me if I tripped over my feet when I walk because I am so unbalanced. Now I'm a yoga master at the sun salutation pose!

The boys love watching us make fools of ourselves doing the Hula Hoop game. They also cheer us on when the biting teeth approach us on the high wire. And yesterday Christian unlocked the penguin trying to catch fish on ice, and they LOVED that one. And, of course, they both play too. Their favorites are the ski jump and the running in place one.

Six days = more exercise than I have done in the last 12 years combined. And I think my jeans might already be fitting a little bit better. I love you Wii Fit!