Monthly Archives: February, 2012
Strike a pose
I teach yoga and have a love hate relationship with the proud dancer pose. I am not particularly good at balance poses but I know I need to work on them and they feel really good. The life of a swim parent is a bit of a balancing act. I won’t bore you with my …
Skipping practice tonight for a chorus concert.
This means I have to shower and go mingle with people I don’t see often. I hope they have a “my name is” sticker for me. I feel amongst my people at the pool, hope they don’t miss me too much. I just called a friend and asked her when warm ups are. Yes, I …
Had a fainter at the meet today!
I have spent the last year trying to convince Grace that she can swimmer harder, that she isn’t going to die at the end and that it is ok to feel like you are going to faint when you finish a race. The ambulance did not help me convince her. I need to find out …
Last call…
Tomorrow starts what we call a JO (Junior Olympics) Qualifier. In other words, last chance meet. Grace is swimming 5 events this weekend even though she already has 6 qualifying times, the max she can swim at the meet. She has several that she is just .10 away from making the cut and for the …
Junior Olympics Countdown
I added a countdown calendar until JO’s, our big spring meet. 12 year old is swimming and the 10 year old would saw off an arm to be able to! She is giving it her all and hopes to come away from our meet this weekend with a qualifying time. Fingers crossed for her. I …
Red Solo Cup
I can make any rant relate to swimming! What is my kids obsession with solo cups? I had a group of moms over yesterday. (Their kids swim with mine, thus this involves swimming). I picked up some cute paper plates and solo cups because I am just that lazy. I had about …
I totally have my goggles…
I view much of my life in terms of classes. I teach group fitness classes to help pay for my kids swimming. The endorphin rush I get from working out also keeps me somewhat sane and pleasant. My motto? “Happy mom, happy kids”. Swimming costs me about 200 classes a year. In other words I …
Pretend they had asked me first
Think I would have approved this display of creativity?
Just add water
How hard is it to follow simple directions? Sophie has a mini meet this weekend and dad agreed to take the Saturday leg if I would do Sunday. Before you send me a virtual high-five for sleeping in on Saturday, know that I got to take Grace to her even earlier practice. And I also …
