MOMZA'S HOUSE: Do You Zumba Yet??

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Do You Zumba Yet??

You know you like something
when
you always remember it, right?

So even with my memory loss "stuff"
I'm dealing with,
I remember to go to
ZUMBA at our YMCA
on Monday and Wednesday nights--
even if I'm tired,
have a headache,
a body ache
or whatever...

Because
Because
Because

It is so stinking FUN!
I'm slowly learning the steps,
and yeah,
I have to take water breaks
and modify some of the steps
cuz I'm lame like that,
but
I feel so much better since I started!!!

All of the girls have gone with me too--
Dani
Nana
Daisie
and even
the Caboose!
Such a kick watching the Caboose
move-it
move-it!!

It's been so good for Dani too--
the results are reflecting in the mirror
and that makes her feel great!
Nana and Daisie move their
bahooeys
like nobody's bizness--
and we all laugh while we do it!

So, are you Zumba-ing yet??
If not,
what are you waiting for???

I find myself moving to the beat
while I'm cleaning or cooking--
or even (gasp!)
grocery shopping--
I do that to embarrass the yahoos tho. shhhhh.

Seriously, it feels good to find my hips again,
and Zumba is fun, fast, and a little sensual too--
all that good stuff!

The Caboose thinks "it's cool"--
so there ya have it!

Grab a friend, a sister, a daughter and GO!
Whattaya Waitin' For??

This is the Zumba instructor, Elody (the one I referred to as "Zumba-on-crack"--you can tell she loves what she's doing.
My favorite instructor Wendy, is behind her on the R,in the pinkish colored shorts with blonde hair.
**Go to the bottom of the page to turn OFF the music player, so you can hear the video!

16 comments:

Eternal LizdomJune 30, 2010 at 6:28 AM
You know I LOOOOOVE Zumba!!! I am going to refresh my efforts to find a class again! I miss the group feel! Love my DVD's but I don't do it enough and it's less fun and more work when I'm just in my living room!! Although... Zumba'ing with Teagan is pretty fun!
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DanielleJune 30, 2010 at 6:52 AM
That looks SUPER fun and it looks like something I wouldnt break myself trying to do!:) Love love!
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MarilynJune 30, 2010 at 6:53 AM
Comment #1: Why on earth are you up at 3:00 am?
Comment #2: Interesting combination listening to the zumba and your background music....
Comment #3: I think you've convinced me. My 1st counselor has been begging me to go. Except all Latins have rhythm. I don't.
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MomzaJune 30, 2010 at 7:42 AM
@Liz: Go For IT!
@Danielle: I'd love to read about it when you go!
@Marilyn: I was not up at 3am--I wrote it yesterday afternoon and scheduled it to post at AM instead of the PM. And you can click the music player OFF. #3,I have the rhythm of a cargo ship, but it's still fun.
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gigiJune 30, 2010 at 8:32 AM
I bought the DVD set of Zumba and the GRAND~girls, age 3 and 5 love to do it together. They BEG to do it several times a day! I think I would love to do it in a group session as soon as I learn a few more steps. Really fun!
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TisforTonyaJune 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM
I went once... I LOVED it, seriously had already planned to go back time and time and time again - spent that night researching the local Zumba classes to find which worked best with my schedule and with a wicked awesome instructor.

Woke up the next morning with a fit of Vertigo that lasted 2 months. No joke. My doctor has told me to never do Zumba again... Now I'm bummed - and I'm blaming my muffin top on my lack of a fun exercise!
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Susan AndersonJune 30, 2010 at 11:03 AM
That does look TOTALLY fun. I'm going to see if there's a class around here.

=)
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Pitterle PostingsJune 30, 2010 at 2:51 PM
I have never heard of it before, but it sounds fun. I will have to see if there is a dvd around because we don't have a YMCA anywhere up here. I walk or bike every morning and am working really hard to lose weight. I love the thought of something fun!
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jenJune 30, 2010 at 10:35 PM
My hip hurts just watching it. Does that make me old?
I know the answer. Don't confirm it.
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Motorcycle MammaJuly 1, 2010 at 12:26 AM
Momza...I am Sadie's mom. You don't know me but I read you on her blog! I just saw Zumba for the first time the other day on TV in an advertisement. Looks so fun! Your blog gives me courage to try it!
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MomzaJuly 1, 2010 at 8:37 AM
@MM: First, we love Sadie, she was a missionary in our area in 2005 in Fort Collins! I love keeping up with her and her family. Second, you HAVE to try Zumba! You will love it!
@jen: I just recently found my hips again, and I'm pretty sure I'm a decade older than you--give it a try!
@PattyAnn:Go to Zumba.com and they'll have a list of classes/instructors near you!
@Sue: DO IT!!
@T: I have vertigo too...how wild is that? But I haven't had any probs tied to Zumba since I started. Maybe it just coincided at the same time? It really is aerobics...modify a little?
@gigi: I would love to have to dvd's so I could learn the steps better. Aren't the little ones fun to watch?!
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UnknownJuly 1, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Oh my! My hips haven't moved like that since I was 18!
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LesleyJuly 1, 2010 at 5:28 PM
I've got to go!!!We have a class right here in town too. It sounds a lot like belly dance...you shake your hips, which is so earthy and womanly and sensuous (but doesn't have to be sexual). Now just gotta fit it into my schedule somehow...
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MomzaJuly 1, 2010 at 8:55 PM
@julie: Your hips will love you for it!!
@Moody: Do! And tell me all about it!!!
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RBSJuly 2, 2010 at 8:05 AM
Momza, I am sitting in my chair just a movin to the music. I think I could really get into this. Thanks for alerting me to this new cool deal. I will have to track down a class in my neck of the woods.
Roxanne
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MomzaJuly 6, 2010 at 9:50 PM
@Roxanne: Grab a friend and go!
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Ari showed me her math assignment: "Have you seen this before?"

Me: "Um, yeah. Not since I was in school though."

Ari: "OK. So it's a legitimate thing. I just wanted to make sure my teachers weren't lying to me."

Bee: "I thought it was 'Tequila Mockingbird', not "To Kill a Mockingbird."

From the wedding:

Jud's oldest brother: Tell Mom not to come up to see you while on your honeymoon.

Jud: What? She came to see you?

Brother, laughing: Yeah.

Jud to his Mom: "I don't care if I've been mauled by a bear; do NOT come see me."

***

Dani to Isaac: "Tell Gramma 'bye' n; you love her, Isaac."

Isaac: "Bye! Butt-face Gramma!"

****

Boofus to Momza: "I have black hair in my armpits! Just on this one arm though. I WISH I could move some on the other arm!"

Momza: You're ridiculous. {laughing}

Boofus: "I also have hair growing on my chest. Twelve hairs! I counted!"

***

Arianna: "Mom, can I borrow one of your sweaters?"

Momza: "One of my sweaters? Why?"

Arianna: "It's Ugly Sweater Day at school."

Momza to Joseph, as he's getting ready for school:

"Hey, didn't you wear that shirt yesterday?--It's dirty, go put on a clean one."

Joseph: "It's not dirty. SMELL me!"

Momza: "I am not smelling you. It is too dirty--go put on a clean shirt. You're not wearing that to school."

Joseph, chuckling: "Aww...you're ruining my life."

Momza to 10 yr old Primary boy who wouldn't stop leaning back in his chair:

"I think you should know that I get queasy at the sight of blood. If you lean back in your chair and get hurt, after I've told you not to, I'll probably vomit--and if I do, it'll probably get on you."

Ari, after overhearing what I said, whispered, "Mom, you're a doula, you see blood all the time. It doesn't make you sick."

Momza: He doesn't know that.

****

Two little neighborhood boys knocked on the door:

"Is the Master here?"

Daisie: "What? Who?"

Boofus, from upstairs: "I can't play until my room is clean!"

Momza, to Boofus: "They call you 'Master'?"

Boofus: "Yeah, they do everything I say. I'm their Master."

***

Daisie, from the backseat of the car, while Diana is changing up the radio station:

"No country please. You're destroying my brain."

Diana: "You're welcome."

******

Valentines Day Dinner. Boofus to Dad, while eating the chocolate fish I gave him:

"This was the worst Valentine's ever. Mom KISSED me in front of Nathan!" (N. is his best friend who happened to be standing there when I gave B. his chocolate gift.)

Momza at the dinner table: "So, at work today, I was talking to Juan..."

Boofus, interrupts: "Who?"

Momza: "Juan. Juan--he's a young man I work with."

Boofus: "Who? I mean, WHO were you talking to?"

Caboose, chiming in: "The Chinese-Mexican, Wong!"

The Caboose to Momza: "If you won't get me a cellphone, then you can just send me to a foster home."

Momza:"Hold on while I GOOGLE foster homes in Colorado. N' while I do that, you should go ask Daddy if it's ok to send you away."

The Caboose returns: "Daddy said 'No'."

The Caboose to Mom: I can’t wait until I’m 11. “Cuz eleven is next to twelve and twelve is next to thirteen, and thirteen has the word “teen” in it n’ I can’t wait to be a teenager!

Boofus, pinching his fingers together, showing them to me:

"I just pulled a hair out of my NOSE! I AM A MAN!"

Momza: "Pick up your room, then brush your teeth, and don't forget to pack your lunch."

The Caboose: "You sound just like my mother!"

The Caboose: How do you spell "diary"?

Boofus: "D-A-I-R-Y."

Dad: That's dairy. You need to switch the "a" and the "i".

Caboose: I'm writing in pen here, people.

Dani to Boofus:

"You need to wash your hands before you touch the baby."

Boofus: "I did. I licked them twice."

Diana, who has just spent 45 minutes with Daisie, who'd been chewed out by Momza earlier:

"OH. MY. GOSH. MOM! How do you stand it? She drives me crazy! She acts like she's the only one whose ever been almost 15 years old! She made me so angry! All of her freaking whining! How do you stand it?! --Wait?--Is that what I sound like to you? Ohhhh Mommmm, (laying her head on my shoulder), I AM SO SORRY!!!"

Dad to Boofus, who asked him to do something he didn't want to do:

"What? Do you have a piano tied to your butt?"

Boofus: "Yes, it's small but very heavy."

Boofus, who was pestering the Caboose:

"You're nuthin' but a penny-loafin' Democrat."

Dara to Bee, after she threatened to tell on her for something:

"You think I care if you tell Dad on me? I get in trouble on a daily basis."

Joseph to Momza:

"What do you mean when you say 'think about the words you say'? I never think about what I'm saying."

Walking thru Walmart, the Caboose says:

"Mom, what's Pole dancing?"

"Ask your Dad."

Ari to Momza after seeing a personalized ornament with Joseph's name on it:

"Why does Joe get one and I don't?"

Momza: "Because there wasn't one with your name on it."

Ari: "Ugh. Why couldn't you name me Samantha, Rachel or somebody?"

Ari: Mommmm! Joseph is making me mad!

Momza: He's pushin' your buttons?

Ari: I don't have any buttons. I don't collect buttons.

Joseph to the dog: "C'mon girl--shake what your momma gave you!"

The Caboose, while I am fixing her hair for school:

"I don't want my ponytails braided."

Momza: "Why not?"

"Because it shows my inner beauty."

The Caboose: "I don't like my middle name. It's embarassing, it's not cool. It makes me awkward."

Momza: "Really? Hmmm, well what name do you like?"

The Caboose: "Something cool, like 'Madeline'."

Momza: "Okay you can change your name. What would you like to be called?'

The Caboose: "Arianna Madeline Hope A."

Momza: "Done!"

Momza to Boofus, after he'd spilled some hot cocoa on the counter:

"Hey, what do you do when you accidentally make a mess?"

Boofus: "You lie. And blame it on the dog."

Boofus: "Mom! Ari's bleeding!"

"Where?"

Boofus, pointing: "Over there."

"No, where on her body is she bleeding?"

Boofus: "Oh, on her knee."

Diana's heading downstairs, as the kids are leaving for school:

"Bye Bee, have a great day!"

"Wait! Where am I going?"

Diana, laughing, "You're not going anywhere right now,

I'm going down to take a shower and I won't see you before you leave for school!"

Bee: "Oh yeah."

Diana, after reading the headline, "Gaining Weight is All in Your Head"--

"Of course it's all in your head, that's where your mouth is."

At dinner, Momza to Boofus:

"Okay, when we get home, you need to take a bath."

"I don't wanna take a bath. You sit in your own FILTH!"

Driving in the car:

Dad: why do girls always have to change the radio?"

Bee: "Because we have the Authority. Boys just run red lights and drink beer."

Boofus to the Caboose, when she asked him to bring her more water to the table:

"You're Not Roll-a-tee...get it yourself."

Momza to kids, arguing in backseat on way to school:

"It's a good thing you guys are going to school today, otherwise I'd have to sell you on Ebay or to the Circus.

The Caboose: "What? You're going to get rid of me?"

Momza: "Well, you guys could swing on the trapeze, feed the lions..."

The Caboose: " You know I'm afaid of heights! and lions!"

Boofus, at the sink, rinsing dishes, discovers the water to be too hot. He decides to blame Dad who used the water last.

"Dad! It's your fault!"

"No, it's not-- you're running the water. That's your responsibility. It's your fault--just like the war in Iraq. It's because of your failed policies!"

"HA! YOU'RE the reason we went to War!"

(All this while Pres. Obama's speech is on in the background)

13 yo Daisie to Mom in car:

"Ohhh the boy I like asked another girl out today. Her name is Suzie."

"SuzieQ, hunh?"

"I don't know her last name."

"Do you love me?"

"I've never wanted to hit you. But someday I might."

"Gee, thanks."

"No problem, Babyhead."

Boofus: "I'm never dating. And I'm not gettin' married.Women are nothin' but trouble. And they squeeze your pressure points!"

Mr. W., laughing: "Yeah they sure do know how to squeeze your pressure points, Boof."

Caboose, yelling: "Mom, Joseph hit me!"

Momza: "Joseph, keep your hands to yourself."

Boofus: "I used a spoon. It was a spoon."

Momza: "Keep your hands to yourself."

Boofus: "It wasn't my hands! It was a S-P-O-O-N!"

Momza: "Well you and your spoon are about to get timed out in your bedroom."

Mr. W: "I would like to bear my testimony. I have a testimony of bears. They're true."

Momza: "Did you eat breakfast yet?"

Boofus: "No, there's nothin' good."

Momza:"Well, there's cereal, a bagel, fruit...I could make you some eggs?"

Boofus: "None of that sounds good."

Momza:' Well, if you could have anything you wanted, what would it be?"

Boofus: "I dunno."

Daisie: "The Best of EFY is this weekend! Can I go?"

Momza: "Sure--wait, you're not 14 yet. I dunno."

Daisie: "I'll be 14 in [x-amount] of Days!"

Br. Malley, our HT pipes in, to her: "Shhhh...just go and don't say anything." to me:"But probably not the dance later."

Momza:"Oh right--okay, Daise, you can go for the talks but not the dance."

Daisie: "Nevermind."

The Caboose, as we're on the elevator in the Doc's ofc:

"When they look at your throat, do they have to cut it open?"

Momza:"What??--of course not! Where'd you come up with that?"

" I dunno. "

It was then I realized, the Caboose hasn't ever been sick enough to go to a medical doctor. Bless her heart.

Ari talking to Dani on the phone about caring for the new dog:

"I'll be in charge of walking him, because you know how I feel about picking up poop. YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT THAT!"

Boofus insisted he pick out his own shirt for school...comes to me and says, "Someone took off all the buttons on this shirt!"

I flipped the placket over to reveal otherwise.

"Whew!" no button thieves in our house!"

Its lunch time, what does everyone feel like throwing up?

A sleep-deprived Momza to Mr W:

"you better take it easy and get some rest today, cuz you're headed for a ..uh..a collap-sa-tion."

"Ari, you sure want a peice of pie? You're just gonna throw it up in a bit."

"I don't care."

::::sittin' around the table, we're talking about which temples the girls would like to be married in someday::::

Nana: "Portland."

Daisie: "Mesa, definitely."

Boofus, who'd been quiet thru most of the convo:"Well, if I ever decide to like

girls--and I don't now cause I hate them, and they're jerks!! --[his finger pointing to his sisters]--I want to

go to the Hawaii temple."

Boofus: "Mom, when you weren't here, Dad said the "S-word. He's a cusser."

Dad, sheepishly: “No, I don’t think so.”

Boofus: “ Yeah he did. Mom tell him.”

Boofus to Dad: You can hit me as hard you want for ten bucks.

Dad: Can I draw blood?

Boofus: It’s fifteen for blood.

Dad: How about a ping with a baseball bat, how much then?

Boofus: Twenty-two fifty.