Oh yippee!  It is the first night of swimming lessons!  I am awaiting this time with bated breath.  Who can resist that chlorine smell?  Or the saliva and other unmentionables floating by in the water!  You get to walk in bare feet on other peoples germs and in the bathrooms on more of peoples germs (unless you are like me and put shoes on yourself and your kids because you can't bear the thought!)  I had all kinds of ambitions to teach my children to swim, I was after all an instructor and lifeguard!  I've got all the swim skills down pat and if I do say so myself I am quite graceful at it!  But alas, the key words are I WAS an instructor many years ago.  I would teach all morning long in a freezing cold outdoor pool so therefore I was #1 wet for hours  #2 splashed for hours  #3 wearing an uncomfortable bathing suit for hours.  Now why would a  desire arise within me to teach my kids? One of the many delusions I had pre-children! I have done the occasional bouts of floating here and there with them, but common!  A girl should only be forced to do things like that when a spry teenager. 

 About a year ago I was swimming lengths (which is very good exercise by the way).  It is good for your joints and a great way to cross-train if you like to run.  You don't get high definition muscles but it does 'sculpt' your body.  (I forget the word so I'm using sculpt, it will come back to me when I'm no longer pregnant!)  At least you can swim at the speed you want and you aren't usually splashed or bonked with swim toys!  Well, I must force myself to go for the safety of my children!  But don't expect me to sing about it.....that was only for the title!