Oh My Goodness, My secret is out...

I began the new year reading about so many of my friends and their goal to exercise, etc... I felt a little guilty as I thought... well that's nice for you guys, but I'm just not an exercise kind of person. It's not that I wouldn't like to be healthier, and more in shape, but I have all these 'reasons' why it's just not my thing...
It's sort of a logistics thing.
First of all, I am a what you could consider a vain person. If I am not 'ready' for life - Hair and make up done - I don't go out, I don't do anything... If I don't get started getting ready when I first get up in the morning, it is hard for me to get back upstairs and get ready. I try to shower before Liam is awake so that I don't have to worry so much about what he's doing, tearing up, or getting into. This whole thing puts a bit of a crimp in any exercising I might be inclined to do.
I sort of don't like going to the pool in the summer for the same reason... If I get up and get ready for life, and then go swimming, If I get in at all, I have to come home and take another hour to get myself pulled back together again in order to go out in public!
So... I decided I would give it a try.
I have started doing wii fit. It may not be the 'best' workout for some people, but for me it has been a great place to start. I am trying to work out at least 30 minutes several times a week. I would LIKE it if I could get done exercising before Liam wakes up so I don't have to compete with him to 'play' the wii. This has been a bit challenging however, since I sort of wanted to keep it a 'secret' at least until I started to see some positive effects of the exercises, and even better, if someone noticed a difference in me!
Well, this meant I have had to wait until the kids were out the door and gone in the mornings for school. When Bill is home, he drives Sariah just after 7 am to her friend's house where the girls get ready together, then go to school... With Bill out of town the past two weeks, I don't drive Sariah anywhere, so she has been home until she gets picked up until about 7:40 in the morning. I gave up and let her in on my 'secret life', and I could get started on my exercises so I could get going with my day before 8 am.
Liam has been waking up earlier than usual (for him) and he will wander downstairs usually while I am exercising. One day last week, Sariah was still at home and we heard him awake and wandering around upstairs looking for people. He came downstairs, and his first words... "Oh My GOODNESS Gracious!" I'm not sure WHY he was so surprised or shocked. He's been seeing me exercise for nearly a month now. or if that was just something to say, I don't know, but it cracked both Sariah and I up!
(Now to explain the statement just in general --- We have tried over the years to get the kids to say "oh my goodness", instead of 'oh my gosh' because, often, the 'sh' gets dropped off the end and it sounds too much like using the name of the Lord in vain. When they hear that as part of every one's daily vocabulary, I worry that it will either become something they might slip up and actually say, or that others will think that is what they are saying... therefore making them seem the same as everyone else who uses the name of the Lord in vain every day...
Liam has become the WORD police at our house. If he hears one of us say "Oh my gosh", he will get after us and tell us to say, "Oh my Goodness" instead... Obviously at some point along the way, someone has said Goodness Gracious and he has heard it! It was just so funny to hear him exclaim it and out of the blue!
And Oh... Bill was home Friday morning, and I had things to do, places to go... and so I exercised while he was here. My secret is out! I didn't like being watched... it made me self conscious, and I felt like I had even less coordination than usual. Meanwhile, Liam is vying for 'his turn' and I didn't want to lose the aerobic benefit I was going for, so I plugged away and kept going, but I got lousy scores! I was sort of glad that he knew I was exercising... perhaps it might help if I have accountability, and people are asking me 'if' I have exercised today or not???
From now on, however... I will have to wait until others are out of the house so that I can exercise though, so that I can stumble along without an audience over 2-3 yrs old.