Today was one of those days consisting of morning swim practice and a conference call and teaching private swim lessons and squeezing in a quick run and two more afternoon swim practices and a baseball game and about 47 miscommunications and not a moment of down time. And tomorrow morning at 5:45 my husband is having […]
Archives for June 2014
Wait for it… wait for it…
Last week I went to Number 3’s class party on the last day of school. As I was walking down the hallway, there were students walking through the halls stopping into other teachers’ rooms. To get their yearbooks signed. Number 3 and 4’s school has students in second, third and fourth grades. Seven to ten-year-olds. […]
Just for the fun of it.
Once you are an athlete, it’s difficult to participate in any sort of competition without putting a little pressure on yourself. Well, it is for me, anyway. I have never run a race or competed in a triathlon without setting one (or five) goals and stressing about meeting all of them. Not until today. Today […]
How to throw a good, old fashioned, inexpensive birthday party (and be able to sit down and enjoy it).
I have written about my thoughts on birthday parties before. I am not anti-party. I looooove a party. But I am anti-over-the-top parties for little kids. I am also anti-excessive party decorations and anti-cakes that take hours to make. And I am seriously anti-goodie bags. Numbers 3, 5, and 6 all have birthdays within 5 days […]
From head to toe. Inside and out. My body has never been more perfect. Ever.
I set off on my weight loss journey in January of 2013. Back then, I looked like this: And I began my journey on a single quest. To get back as close to this picture as possible. Now even back then, I wasn’t (totally) delusional. I realized that the body in that (super cute) […]
Emily Post would have been proud.
I teach private swim lessons here at home in my pool. It is pretty common for siblings of the kids taking a lesson to play in the yard with one or more of my kids while I am teaching. Yesterday the seven-year-old brother of the kid I was giving lessons to was playing with Numbers 3 […]