swimming, water aerobics


My daughter loves to swim! It amazes me how it can be autumn, and because it hasn't cooled down too much on the Gulf Coast, the kids still want to go to the beach. Every weekend for the past month my husband has asked the kids what they wanted to do for fun. Every weekend my daughter replies, "Can we go swimming?"

I love to swim and doing water aerobics, so being this close to a beach is great. I also love the ocean, so this particular kind of beach makes life in the South worth the heat. It is getting to be autumn, however, and swimming season is quickly passing. I have to chuckle to myself every time that the kids ask us to take them to the water! My son is another one who does this. It was last December, and the temperature was in the sixties. He wanted to go swimming after church!

So, I have to reflect back on my own childhood and remember how as soon as the snow thawed in Upstate New York, my siblings and I would be begging our mom to take us up to the neighbor's for a dip in the pool. Kids just love to play in the water, I suppose.