I bet each and every one of you are sitting there thinking to yourself, “Hm.. I wonder what Tessa did today. I wonder if she had a good day or not?” Right?! Admit it, you know you are! Well the answer is…. yes! I had a super busy, but surprisingly good day.

I started volunteering for Good Beginnings again, for the first time since before I had kids of my own! After dropping off my own kids at school today I met my first family and spent the morning holding a 6lb baby who slept peacefully in my arms the whole time. Heaven.

Then off to the photo studio to review our family portraits. I forgot to snap a cell phone pic of the pics, sorry. You’ll have to wait a bit longer. I had low expectations, as you know, so I was pleasantly surprised to find a few nice ones. The woman tried to sell us on everything under the sun (hope no one wanted a stand-up cut-out portrait or a metallic photo book of my family for Christmas this year!) but Alan and I stuck to our one free 8″x10″ and went on our way.

Then it was off to school to volunteer in the library. I was worried this year because the kids both wanted me to volunteer on their library day (as I did last year for Lex) but they have library on different days! I lucked out that it works out best to go on Eve’s day and Lex decided it was fair since I went on his day last year. He is really maturing. More on that below.

Then I picked up the kids and we went to the farm to pick up our CSA share. They ran around like crazy people for awhile. Then home for a quick snack and to pack up the swim bag for another round of swimming lessons! I was worried at this point because we were home and they were tired. This is the one point in my day that could have flipped it from good to bed. But it didn’t! Hurray! They both hopped back in the car and off we went for swim lessons!

Did I mention I let them have ice cream with chocolate syrup for snack?! Good to the last drop. I was just tempting the fates today!

We’re back at Dartmouth for their semi-annual lessons. We’ve been twice before (this spring and last spring) and each time it was a challenge to get Lex into the pool. He loved it, eventually, but day one was always tough. I braced myself today, but he surprised me! He cooperated the entire time. Happy boy all the way there, getting changed, googles on, and down the stairs with the rest of the kids. Happy boy. I saw him sitting on the edge of the pool talking to his instructor for a few minutes while all the other kids were in the pool and I started to get nervous, but it wasn’t long before he was in there too! Showing off his freestyle and flip-turns. I’m so proud of how grown up and mature and brave he is getting. Not always, but more and more often these days.

Waiting by the pool for lessons to begin.

Eve hopped right in the pool with her instructor and had a happy lesson. She told me later that she didn’t learn anything new, because she knew how to do everything, except the side breathing that she needs to practice. :) She is a confident girl!

Kickboard girl! It’s hard to take good pictures from the bleachers.

After lessons we headed home and faced another potential turning point, but we all survived. Pancakes for dinner, no showers, pjs, stories, snuggles in bed. Happiness is! Here’s hoping we can manage at this pace for four more days!

Lex was apparently in the middle of a good book when I made him pause for lessons. Once he was dressed again he immediately picked it back up.

Hahah… he cracks me up. Good thing I was watching where he was going!