We are done with swimming lessons. And I don't mean for just this summer. I mean FOREVER! This year, when the girls started their lessons, I watched them swim on the first day. "They know how to swim well already," I thought. "I wonder how long I must still take them for lessons?"
They were in level Y4. There is a level Y5, and a Y6/7. I think that is why I have continued to sign them up for lessons-because they still had levels they could complete. But I've just spent the last month-a huge chunk of my summer vacation-watching the girls swim, dive, do the free stroke, the breast stroke, the butterfly, the back stroke...And do it well. I realized that my goal of the girls learning how to swim had been met.
And what a freeing thought this is. Next summer, I won't be subjected to a summer swimming lesson schedule. It's extra money in our pockets. It's an extra couple hours back per day. And I know that if the kids were to fall out of a row boat on the lake, they could probably take care of themselves until help arrived. Not that we go out in row boats. But you know what I mean.
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