The View From My Window

I’ve been sharing a lot of photos of the kids playing in the pool here and on the Facebook page the last couple days.

I know these pool pictures might be kind of annoying to some people. Especially people who don’t have access to one right now.

But our pool makes me really happy.

It makes me happy for lots of reasons, but the biggest one is that when I was a kid, the only thing I ever wanted was a pool.

I grew up in a wealthy town that had two country clubs and no public pools.

We were not wealthy.

My mom was a stay-at-home mom, and my dad was a car mechanic.

But I did have many wealthy friends who either belonged to one (or both!) of those country clubs or who had their own pools.

I was that kid who would go to the house of the friend with the pool and not want to get out.

Ever.

I was the kid who would very very occasionally get invited to the country club and stay in the water the entire time we were there until someone forced me to get out.

As soon as I was old enough to get a summer job, I started working at one of those country clubs in my town.

It was the only way I could get near a pool all the time in the summers.

I worked there for like six years. I loved that place.

So to be able to give the experience of swimming in their very own pool every summer to my kids, well, that makes me really, really happy.

And proud.

It’s not the fanciest pool.

It’s got its issues.

But the kids don’t care.

I mean, they were swimming in it yesterday when it was raining and 64° outside with the water temperature about the same.

They are swimming in it right now as I write this.

So when I share lots of pool pictures, it’s because I’ve worked my ass off to be able to give my kids something I never had.

They are going to have some really amazing memories of summers in the pool when they are all grown up.

Also, if you remember, Number 5 and 7 have been so desperate to go swimming that they made a “pool” in a garbage and have been swimming in that for the last few weeks.

So that’s another reason I share those pictures.

Because it makes me feel a little bit less like Cousin Eddy. 🙄😜

But mostly, with everything that’s going on in the world right now, seeing this reminds me how fortunate we are.

I love standing in the kitchen and looking out the window and watching the kids all playing out back together.

There is a Facebook page called View From My Window.

It was started as a way for people to feel connected over the past few weeks, and then it exploded.

There are some incredible photos on that page.

Some holy-shit-I-can’t-believe-someone-gets-to-see-that-view-365-days-a-year kinds of photos.

But when I look at the view out of my own window, when I look a pictures like this…

… well, that makes me pretty happy, too.

So I guess I just wanted to let you all see the view from my window.

It might not look like this year round, but ten-year-old Susie would think that view is pretty spectacular.

And to be honest, fifty-year-old Susie thinks it’s pretty fucking awesome, too.

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