Comments on: In the Swim… http://kshoop.com/2008/05/28/in-the-swim/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-the-swim Author of The Last Letter Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:09:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kathie http://kshoop.com/2008/05/28/in-the-swim/#comment-2101 Kathie Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:38:32 +0000 http://kshoop.com/?p=413#comment-2101 Hi Dana! I believe the sea-dogs still exist. Remember that one team picture when we were six--there were fifty two people in it from six to 18...I can't tell you the good memories I have of being with all those people for so many years. I agree, a childhood is not complete without a little torture--gives them something to grow on. Hi Dana! I believe the sea-dogs still exist. Remember that one team picture when we were six–there were fifty two people in it from six to 18…I can’t tell you the good memories I have of being with all those people for so many years. I agree, a childhood is not complete without a little torture–gives them something to grow on.

]]> By: Dana http://kshoop.com/2008/05/28/in-the-swim/#comment-2100 Dana Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:10:56 +0000 http://kshoop.com/?p=413#comment-2100 You brought back lots of memories with this post. Wes loves to swim. He is not old enough yet for the swim team here. Hopefully, next year he will still be interested enough to try it. Does Shaler still have the Sea Dogs? Keep torturing them it was good for us. You brought back lots of memories with this post. Wes loves to swim. He is not old enough yet for the swim team here. Hopefully, next year he will still be interested enough to try it. Does Shaler still have the Sea Dogs? Keep torturing them it was good for us.

]]> By: MaryWitzl http://kshoop.com/2008/05/28/in-the-swim/#comment-2099 MaryWitzl Fri, 30 May 2008 19:02:15 +0000 http://kshoop.com/?p=413#comment-2099 This is exactly how I feel when my kids moan about the papers they have to write -- the discursive essays and book reports and speeches. I chide them to get on with their writing, but secretly I think "Yay! I don't have to do that anymore!" It's so great being an adult. When I was their age, everyone told me that being a teenager was so much fun and being an adult was nothing but worrying responsibilities. I just knew they were lying, and so they were! This is exactly how I feel when my kids moan about the papers they have to write — the discursive essays and book reports and speeches. I chide them to get on with their writing, but secretly I think “Yay! I don’t have to do that anymore!” It’s so great being an adult. When I was their age, everyone told me that being a teenager was so much fun and being an adult was nothing but worrying responsibilities. I just knew they were lying, and so they were!

]]> By: Kathie http://kshoop.com/2008/05/28/in-the-swim/#comment-2098 Kathie Fri, 30 May 2008 12:55:47 +0000 http://kshoop.com/?p=413#comment-2098 Susan, I know, the kids don't notice the cold--until it's evening and the swim coach is shouting orders! Struggling writer--adulthood does have its benefits! Susan, I know, the kids don’t notice the cold–until it’s evening and the swim coach is shouting orders!

Struggling writer–adulthood does have its benefits!

]]> By: strugglingwriter http://kshoop.com/2008/05/28/in-the-swim/#comment-2097 strugglingwriter Thu, 29 May 2008 19:46:04 +0000 http://kshoop.com/?p=413#comment-2097 That's why I'm happy to be an adult: to torture my kids like my parents did to me :) That’s why I’m happy to be an adult: to torture my kids like my parents did to me :)

]]> By: Kathie http://kshoop.com/2008/05/28/in-the-swim/#comment-2096 Kathie Wed, 28 May 2008 20:02:30 +0000 http://kshoop.com/?p=413#comment-2096 It is, Scott...the things that come back to haunt us. What would life be without all these habits and institutions latching us to our past, giving us adequate baggage in which to keep all the things that turned us into horrid people????? It is, Scott…the things that come back to haunt us. What would life be without all these habits and institutions latching us to our past, giving us adequate baggage in which to keep all the things that turned us into horrid people?????

]]> By: Susan http://kshoop.com/2008/05/28/in-the-swim/#comment-2095 Susan Wed, 28 May 2008 20:01:19 +0000 http://kshoop.com/?p=413#comment-2095 Ha, isn't that the truth?! My kids wouldn't take no for an answer about going to the pool this weekend. Heather pool or not, there was no freakin' way I was going in that water! (But it amused and tired them out for nearly 3 hours.) Ha, isn’t that the truth?! My kids wouldn’t take no for an answer about going to the pool this weekend. Heather pool or not, there was no freakin’ way I was going in that water!

(But it amused and tired them out for nearly 3 hours.)

]]> By: Scott http://kshoop.com/2008/05/28/in-the-swim/#comment-2094 Scott Wed, 28 May 2008 16:42:13 +0000 http://kshoop.com/?p=413#comment-2094 It's just like the expressions we swore we'd never use, like "Why? Because I said so!" Or "If your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it to?" It’s just like the expressions we swore we’d never use, like “Why? Because I said so!” Or “If your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it to?”

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