The exercise thing

So NYD has come and gone, and as with every year, I've promised myself a more active, less fatty 2010. But I'm sorry, I do not know how working moms manage to get the whole exercise thing in. At the end of the day, all I want to do is play with Max. And by the time he goes to bed, that's pretty much what I'm ready to do. So anybody have any tricks? Especially to motivate me in this stupid winter weather? Ways I've tried to make it work:

- Getting up at the crack and working out in the morning: This does not work because it requires me to be gone while DH is getting Max ready for daycare. It just takes two of us to wrestle that kid into his socks and shoes every morning. It's an epic battle, and it would be totally unfair to abandon Josh to fight the forces of shoe tantrums alone.

- Going during the day while I work from home: This operates under the assumption that I take some sort of break during the day. What I more typically do is work through lunch, answer emails on my blackberry while peeing and skip the morning shower so I can get a head start. Perhaps I need better boundary setting skills? 

- Going after work: No. Wanna play with Max. It's the only time I have all day.

SOOOO...it sounds like I'll never make it to the gym and have to learn to live with this very yucky number that keeps showing up on the scale. Blech.

Or, I can just suck it up and go on my work-at-home days and on the weekends and quite being such a whiny, excuse-making sloth.

I guess we'll see which one wins.