The past week has been, how shall I put this… fucking shitty. So I’m just going to take a moment to shamelessly brag because hidden in the bullshit there have been a couple of memorable moments. Good memorable moments. This past weekend we had a swim meet. Numbers 3, 4, 5, and 7 swam in […]
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Next Stop, Webster, New York
As you all know, I spent this past weekend at a pretty big swim meet with Number 3 and Number 4. And at this meet, it was Number 4’s goal to swim well enough to qualify for an even bigger meet where the best of the best on the East Coast swim called Zones. She […]
Number 7 is like a box of chocolates.
We had our first swim meet of the fall season today. And this year, Number 7 made her USS swimming debut and swam in her first serious, legit swim meet with Numbers 3, 4, and 5. She was the only 4 -year-old in the meet. She is just a couple days from her fifth birthday, […]
If your house was on fire and you could only take one person or thing with you, what would you take?
I spent this past weekend at a swim meet. It was at a big high school in New York and there were a couple hundred kids swimming in it. Swim meets like this are long and boring. They usually run for about 4 hours, and there is a lot of sitting around waiting to swim. […]
Okay. I admit it. I’m living vicariously through Number 4.
When I was 6 my parents signed me up for swim lessons through the parks and rec department in my town. We didn’t have a pool at our house, there were no town pools or public pools in the area, and we didn’t belong to the Y or a country club, so up until that point, my […]