Writing from our hotel room in glamorous Brown Deer, WI. As I mentioned, Asher and I are here for 3 nights for Asher's State swim meet. We arrived last night (Thursday), later than ideal. He had practice from 5-6 and then they had a team dinner at 6:15 at Noodles.... (Like, why couldn't the team… Continue reading Swim meet/ mini-vacay!
Oh man, this month of February has just disappeared. I had a suspicion this would happen, so I guess I'm glad I had a super productive January. I feel like my ENTIRE month of February has been dominated by the end of the swim season, even though on paper, it doesn't look like that much.… Continue reading Just keep swimming…
Friday night we had a nice chill evening. The weather warmed up enough, sort of, that I took Charlie on a really long walk after work and talked to my dad on the phone. (It was not "warm" but better than it's been.) Then I ran out of time to shower (I never showered in… Continue reading Weekend so far
Awww, Asher's 1st high school swim season is officially over for him now! 😥 He swam at Sectionals yesterday, but as was completely expected, will not be swimming at Division 1 High School State next weekend. Several of the juniors and seniors on his team did qualify (you have to place in the top 24… Continue reading Swim’s over + V-Day
We had a really nice weekend! The main event for us was Asher's big Conference swim meet on Saturday, which is the beginning of the post-season for high school swim. They taper them to perform well at this meet, the boys all wear their fancy racing tech suits, etc. The meet was Saturday afternoon at… Continue reading The weekend, etc. + the internet gets me
Can't break my NaBloPoMo streak!! Day 12 today. It's 9 pm and we just recently got home from Asher's high school swim team parent/athlete meeting. It was from 7-8:30. There's a brand new head coach, who we met tonight and seems very nice (pretty young/ casual in his hoodie...ha. Probably will be very popular with… Continue reading Late post!
I am having difficulty wrapping my head around the fact that it's August! This has felt like the weirdest summer to me. And it's kind of almost over, but also kind of not. Ethan starts school in a week and a half, on August 15, but Asher doesn't go back until September 3! So that's… Continue reading AUGUST + soda + swim updates
Annnnd the very choppy blogging schedule continues. Sigh. The week has been basically a continuation of previous recent weeks. I will not lie and say this post-Hawaii summer has been my most awesome summer. But, nothing is overtly horrible (at all!), either, and I also cannot exactly figure out how to express my discontent without… Continue reading An intense weekend
Just popping in to say Happy Saturday! Hope you're all having a nice start to the weekend. The big event around here is Asher's Regional swim meet. He's swimming both today and tomorrow, and our team is co-hosting, so I have to volunteer. FORTUNATELY, I am no longer the team's Volunteer Coordinator, so this weekend… Continue reading Happy Saturday
I'm back from the Friday-Saturday swim meet adventure with Asher. We left around 2:30 on Friday. Traffic was okay. I'm not a mega fan of Chicago area traffic, though in fairness, it really wasn't overly heavy this time. There's just a lot of lanes and a lot of cars down that way. And a good… Continue reading Disappointments/ perseverance
GRATEFUL KAE 