This morning has been busy! Analise started swimming lessons with a friend of mine. She’s been hot and cold about doing it, and I was really worried she’d be too teary and not do what she needed to do. There was some crying, but Miss Rena is super patient and just kept swimming her around. She did really well. 4 days left, and I think it’s going to be a good investment! I, personally, can’t handle the two of them in a pool unless Analise gets more comfortable in the water and learns to do some things herself. Hopefully, these lessons will make us able to go to the pool with friends of ours. <\/p>\n
Then we headed off to storytime at Brian’s parents’ church. Josiah and Grandma Beverly were already there. After the stories, they had inflatables for the kids to bounce around in. I’m tired just from all the running around. I don’t know how my kids aren’t napping yet!! <\/p>\n
I’m pretty proud of myself… I realized as we drove home that today is a pick-up day for a local charity, and I managed to get 4 boxes of toys and clothes together in less than 15 minutes. Whew! Feels good already to have less stuff \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
We had a good quiet weekend. My leadership retreat was nice Friday evening, and we got a lot planned for our upcoming year of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers). I got to sleep in and relax by the pool before coming home to the craziness of kids. Brian raced a time trial yesterday, and he did AMAZINGLY well. Go check out his race details<\/a> here…<\/p>\n Off to naptime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning has been busy! Analise started swimming lessons with a friend of mine. She’s been hot and cold about doing it, and I was really worried she’d be too teary and not do what she needed to do. There was some crying, but Miss Rena is super patient and just kept swimming her around. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-9Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}