Okay, so I am so tortured about kid's activities. I love sports and music and want my kids to have all those experiences. But it is so hard to schedule it all in. I see some families who are so overscheduled that they can barely eat together and I don't want that. I think it's pretty much inevitable once you have teenagers but at least while the kids are young I would like to have as much family time as possible. Curtis is a big fan of down time for the family. Just relaxing, playing games, reading, having a swim. Having said all that, we signed the boys up for swim team. It was insane. Practice 4 days a week for the last month of school and then every morning at 8am for the month of June. 5 or 6 meets that last for 4 hours (in the sweltering heat with a sticky, nursing baby- arghhh!) But towards the end of the season I found myself saying that maybe we should do it again next year. Swimming is such a great sport and the boys love to be in the water. It's one of those things you can still do when you are 80, which is pretty unique.
madeleine grace cosby
8 years ago
