My kids don’t know how to swim. None of them do. It isn’t because I have some crazy irrational fear of water. That is except for being stuck on a bridge that is over water, that is a whole other irrational fear that can be dealt with some other time.
I am quite a good swimmer. I have a large box of ribbons and medals to prove it. When I was a kid I pretty much lived at the pool. Training before and after school and during the summer. I love to swim!
But we NEVER go swimming. WHY? My excuses span from, “we just don’t have access to a pool” to ” I don’t have a swim suit”. BUUUULLLLLLL!!!! What I tell my husband is, “They don’t allow whales in swimming pools.”
It is just shear embarassment to go out and let everyone see all of my flab just flapping around in the breeze. (If you are easily offended then here is my warning about the movie clip
HOW selfish is that??? To make my kids go without doing something SUPER fun because I haven’t been able to keep from eating the WHOLE Mc Donald’s menu at one time.(ok this may well be an exageration, not the whole menu!)
My kids will be able to swim by next summer and I have a date with my friend Melissa (hi Melissa!!) to go swim suit shopping in the spring. I will be swimming next summer with my kids!
Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:50 pm
i can’t wait to have a “swim” playdate at our house next summer!
it’s a date! all 9 kids and 2 moms swimming……….what fun!
October 1st, 2007 at 4:01 pm
That sounds like fun!! It’s a date!