Skip to main content

Fun Post! Saturday Morning Bliss..

Most kids are involved in some sport on a Saturday morning.  For this past year, we elected NOT to send Lucas to either soccer or basketball or football or baseball.  This year Lucas and Liam started regular swimming classes.  Lucas can swim and he is improving his technique and learning new strokes. Liam is just starting to learn to swim (kicking his legs, holding his breath, etc.). And why is this bliss?  It's bliss because instead of being outdoors with them and either sweating or freezing, I get to be inside a warm, indoor swimming pool, on a Saturday morning, sitting down and chatting with friends while someone else is in charge of keeping my children in line.   All I do is grin and give them the occasional thumbs up.

It helps that one of the swim instructors, Mr. Kyle, really seems to enjoy playing with the kids after their swim class and it is a highlight of their time at the pool when he picks them up and drops them in the water, sprays them in the face or holds them over the fountain.  What's not to love about that?

When the weather gets warmer, I look forward to the time when we can go to the outside pool to play and swim.  There is just something soothing about the water, and I wanted to share pictures of my lads doing their thing at the pool.  I hope you are out there doing something that you enjoy on a Saturday morning  - either with kids or without!

My little cherub
Big son

Comments

G said…
Sweet post! I love the classes, too - Papa gets quiet time at home!
5 February 2011 at 04:17
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I wish...

This post is my one rant to looking back (I've been told by my doctors not to), but I've justified it to myself by deciding if it makes one person make a different choice, then that's fine with me.  So now that I know what I know, what do I wish? I wish I understood that when a mammogram comes back negative, it does not necessarily mean that they examined all the tissue and they were able to see clearly that nothing was there (a true negative). It could also mean, they've looked and they cannot distinguish normal from tumour tissue (inconclusive).  So ladies, when the radiologist tells you "Ma'am you've got dense breasts", know that it means they can't see a darned thing. If you think something is going wrong, press for an alternative diagnostic tool or monitor yourself more closely in the coming months knowing that the mammogram you just had that said negative, really said, "We don't know".  Oh..and enlist the aid of a specialist ...
5 comments
Read more

Fitness Photo Shoot

Fitness after stage III breast cancer Plank on ball in silhouette Why a fitness shoot? I am not a fitness model, nor am I ripped like one, but I wanted to do a fitness shoot for a few different reasons: 1. As a reminder of how far I have come At the 5-year anniversary of my diagnosis of stage III breast cancer, it seemed a good time to remind myself how far I have come since I went through the trauma of diagnosis and treatment. That no matter how low I felt at the time, I came through it. Not all my sisters made it and many are still struggling today (shout out to my IV-leagers - those living with stage IV,  EVERY DAY). 2. As a reminder of how much the body can do It is a moment for me to acknowledge that while there are things I still cannot do, there are things I could not do when I first started lifting weights, that I can do now and THAT is amazing to me. When I first started weight lifting maybe I could do shoulder presses with 7.5 lbs, now I can do more t...
17 comments
Read more

Job Search2: Networking etiquette..

On which I have a few ideas.  As my husband keeps telling me, I won't get a job by spending hours in front of the computer submitting applications to online job postings.  The best use of any job-seeker's time is spent talking to friends and acquaintances and letting them know that you are looking for a job and what your skills and interests are. So here is what I found tricky about networking: How hard to push?  Working parents are busy, so if I asked a friend, who is a working parent, about a position I had seen at their company, do I ask a second time? How soon after? And what if there is another position - do I talk about that too?  If that friend is very enthusiastic about getting more information for me on a post then I hear nothing, what then?  Is it realistic to think they'll get back to me?  I find it difficult to broach the topic again.  I might ask a second time but for me there is no third time. What do I trade in return? In the net...
4 comments
Read more