Water, water everywhere

Yesterday was the first day of the second session of swimming lessons for the kids. In the last session, the old teacher had refused to let kids where goggles during class. This meant that my girl, who prior to the session would swim all over underwater, suddenly would do almost nothing without total fear. So yesterday, new teacher: N. is doing her usual, trying to do the stroke, yet keep her face out of the water as much as possible. What does this new teacher tell me? "Hey, if she has goggles at home, make sure she wears them so she can put her face in the water." Oy. N. is ecstatic, of course. A. got to lose another float yesterday, and will be down another half float for tomorrow's class. She said he's not having to work hard enough to really swim, so she wants his body a little lower in the water - makes sense to me, but won't he be surprised! LOL!

Last night was our annual family picnic with our homeschool group. It was held from 4-8pm so that working parents could attend, and there were quite a few families there. This was the park near our house with the lake, so the kids spent a couple hours in the water, playing with all their friends. At 6:00 the moms were debating amongst themselves whether or not we should sunscreen our kids, given the fact that it wouldn't be dark for another 4 hours. :P It was a bbq potluck, and I brought the yummy broccoli salad that is becoming one of my "signature" potluck dishes. I also made a fruit salad - along with about 6 other people!

I've been doing good with getting all my water in. It's one of my first sparkpeople goals. In the past, I was a terrible water drinker. A month or so ago, I decided to cut out diet sodas, in an effort to force myself to drink water. You'd think if there was nothing else to drink, then I'd just go with water, right? Wrong. I think I just stopped drinking altogether - with the exception of my two cups of coffee each day. But now, I am a Good water drinker! In fact, I'm better at it then I thought I was. I've been drinking 4 16-oz. glasses of water a day! And going to the bathroom every 30 minutes, though I'm told my body will get over that. And just when I was busy patting myself on the back, hubby decides to actually measure how much the cups were holding - turns out they're actually 20+ ounce glasses, so I've been drinking at least 80oz./day. I so rock. LOL! I've also been getting all my strength, cardio, and stretching in. Yay for me!