Stairs

[Lee-Bee]

Well ladies. I think you, as fellow providers can fully appreciate this.

I opened 3 months ago. I have lost 10lbs. (5lbs was final baby weight) some was my pre-baby weight. I am by no means in a position to lose weight as I always hovered at the lowest weight for my height.

Anyways, I have been exhausted and binging in the evenings and lately find I am just eating sugary foods just to eat more as my body is screaming sugar.

Well...I did the math and today I went up or down 94 flights of stairs. The majority of these flights I had a 23lb baby strapped to my back (my newly, highly separation anxiety daughter who is hyperventilating-screaming if I leave the room and freaking everyone out) AND a 20-23lb child in my arms. So, for the most part I am carrying 20-45pounds for those 94 flights of stairs.

Naps are 24 flights of stairs (nap rooms are 2 flights up from daycare) and they nap twice a day (only 3 sleep upstairs). Outside time is 16 flights of stairs. Plus the numerous runs I make to bring dishes, laundry, food etc., up and down before/during/after the daycare day. Plus my own flights for outside of daycare hours.

Is that ridiculous! I need to start having the kids go up and down on their own but they are 12-16months, the ones that nap upstairs are 12-13months old and it takes sooooo long for them to do it I would be leaving the other children alone too long. To go outside they are in snowsuits and barely mobile so I do not let them do the stairs.

It will get better in the coming months, they will be steadier and faster and will lose the snowsuits. I can start having them go up together for nap then put them in their rooms. But, for now I will continue my nearly 100 flights of stairs a day and I will increase my food intake and will enjoy some extra 'treats' guilt free.

OHHH and in a couple weeks my last daycare child starts...so my stairs count will go up by about 20flights a day!! I need to make a t-shirt with these stats.

I wonder how many days it takes me to do enough flights to have climbed the CN Tower...

Anyone else done the math on their end?