Honestly, your goggle fog up and all you can see is a blurry black line dividing the lane. All you have to do is keep to one side of it. Half the time, my eyes are closed.

Sara, if you can't do flip turns, what do you do when you do your many laps? Just turn around?

I, too, have issues with swimming, because I want to be able to see, and can't.

I grew up in South Florida, which is: surrounded by ocean, riddled with fresh water canals and has abundant numbers of houses with swimming pools. Plus lots of affordable public pools. So swimming is what we all did for fun, and all my high school friends were competitive swimmers. Some of my best tween year memories are of being at pool parties.

Also, I learned how to scuba dive.

However, in the Bay Area its not as easy to go swimming and Emmett didn't learn until EM moved into an apartment complex with a pool. Which is where Matilda is learning to swim.

I came home from getting groceries to JZ and Matilda huddled in the living room whispering. When I entered the room they shouted out at me: "Azarath, Metreon, Zinthos!" Matilda was wearing a cape.

My parents were completely obsessive about us swimming, and I'm pretty sure it's why a) I don't enjoy it and b) I'm perfectly comfortable in the water.

I was a water baby, and my father was very strict about teaching us all the strokes (well, I never mastered the butterfly, but he tried), and diving, etc. The swimming pool was our child-minder--when my father was (inevitably) playing tennis at the university Senior Common Room, my sister and I lived in the nearby swimming pool. I think poolside was pretty normal for bougie Jamaican kids of the 80s.

I hate laps with an intense passion. My god, we had to do so many of them in our free time.

I was on the swim team when I was 7 and 8. You only swam one length at that age. I moved before I could learn to flip turn. Feh.

Terrified of water over my head. Can't swim. Have noticed people tend to ignore people who are drowning because they are quiet.

I need to get my resume out to someone tonight or early tomorrow morning. Anyone around to take a look? I am just getting time to look it over now, so it will be about 15 min. before I can email it out.

Honestly, your goggle fog up and all you can see is a blurry black line dividing the lane. All you have to do is keep to one side of it. Half the time, my eyes are closed.

Do you spit in your goggles? They're not supposed to fog!

kat, how is your dad doing, now? How about your mom? I'm glad you like Miss Grace's new nurse. I don't suppose you can get him to go with you and the twins to watch out for your dad.

My dad is okay. We are trying to figure out how to get me to Ohio with a kid, preferably Grace but possibly Noah and possibly involving a 2400 mile road trip before August 18. Because on the 18th my mom leaves for a road trip with my sister and my niece to drop my niece off at Northern Arizona for college.

Road trip is harder and easier because I will need a car in Ohio and I will need medical equipment that is too hard to fly if I take Grace. ARGH.

Did I also mention there is a second complication of a Krav Level II test on 8/21. FML.

In other news, I was and am totally a water kid. I LOVE the water. But the only pool time I've gotten this year has been Noah's swim lessons.

Oh, Kat. That's complicated and stressful. As if you need more of that! I hope your dad continues to be okay, too.