The schedule I’ve been running these past two weeks is not working. It was better the second week than the first week, but it still qualifies as broken. The good news is that swim lessons run in two week long sessions and starting on Monday I get a brand new schedule. The new schedule has me running one child to swim lessons mid-morning instead of running three children back and forth to swim lessons all morning long. Patch and Kiki are done with swim lessons for the summer. Gleek gets two more weeks. Link is still in Summer school.
Today there were no swim lessons because it was “free swim” day. The kids were all excited about getting to just play in the water. I was very excited about the thought of not having to go anywhere. To resolve this conflict I pulled out my stash of new water toys. I drew aliens on the wooden fence with chalk, then I armed the kids with water squirters to combat the alien monsters. When all the monsters were defeated, the kids drew more monsters and kept playing. This continued until lunch time. After lunch the kids flooded the sandbox and had a glorious, muddy mess. They played in the back yard with water for most of the afternoon. I caught up on my housework, and my shipping, and my email, and my book promotion efforts, and my sleep. I even got a chance to catch up with a couple of good friends. It has been a very nice day.