Who Needs a Vacation From Summer Vacation? Admitting You Have a Problem

Anyone else reading need a vacation from their summer vacation?

Ummm, me!

Pick me!

Swimming two swim teams for three kids seven days a week--sometimes twice a day--has been beyond brutal.

Whatever we do is not enough.

I am sure all of you mom's of kids that play uber competitive sports are nodding their heads in commiseration.

Michael Phelps' mom is a saint. A saint I tell you.

So, I am realizing quickly, with meets, meets, more meets, champs, and long course champs, we have about two weeks free of swimming until the fall schedule starts.

We had a three day weekend of meets ending yesterday, followed by a meet tomorrow. Then next week we have swim meets from Tuesday through to Sunday.

Every. single. effing. day. Sigh.

And fall schedule for swimming starts in mid-August!

(Tap! Tap! Tap! 'Scuse me? Ahem! When did August 18th become fall?!)

So, to all you out there wondering where I've been?

It starts with P and ends in L.

We won't start in about coaching and swim mom dramas.

I could talk all night.

The shining moment of summer so far? We did end up having some wonderful family visits from my sister, brother and their families.

We still went to practice with family here mostly because we are afraid of our swim coach. Seriously. Another story entirely....

However we still managed to show them a lot of the parts of Seattle that we love including Mt. Rainier...

...which was completely snowed in after we drove the three hours to get there which I would have known if I had done my research rather than constantly widening my butt driving to swimming.

Now it's back to swimming, swimming, and, yes, more swimming.

I think my feet are permanently webbed.

My head is a stuffed with carpool schedules, swim practices, and good intentions to disinfect the house some day.

Just please remind me of my resolution to do NOTHING with PTA or the kid's school this fall, m'kay?

I always think I'll catch up in summer, then swim teams hit.

Then I have good intentions once the kids go back to school...then school and swimming and volunteering hits.

So I make resolutions to get my life together once school ends...

Sigh.

It's a vicious cycle. This year I hope to stop my hand popping up and my hand magically writing my name down on volunteer committees.

Hello. My name is Scout's Honor and and I am a volunteer-addicted swim mom.

I hear the first step is admitting you have a problem.

Now that next step...

All that keeps cycling in my head when it comes to steps is the line, "I'm falling and I can't get up!"

Gah! I think drowning might be more appropriate.

Thanks for the Flickr pics by programwitch and by Pierce Place

'lisciously scribed by Scout's Honor @ 6:58 PM