Ugh you guys! I am so old!
Swim and dive season for high school is right around the corner, and Cooper has started to have captain's practice for the swim team from 9:30-10:30pm. That is sooooooo late. He gets rides from friends but omfg. I am usually in REM sleep by 10:45, but now I'm waiting up for a kid.
When real practice starts in a couple weeks, it will be super early in the morning (swim) and right after school (dive). I think that the high school season will make my actual life a little easier because I won't have to drive to campus every afternoon because he will go from his school to the other school where everyone practices dive with a friend, and that same friend will take him to club dive after high school practice.
But. Anyway.
I feel like I am in little-kid parenting mode and in launching-adults parenting mode and just kind of going through the motions with high school. I need to lock in and lean in to these next 5 years (one year just Cooper, three years of both Dorothy and Cooper, one year just Dorothy) because high school parenting season can be fun-- the activities! The gradual release of responsibility! The college search!
I'm also so glad Cooper is swimming in addition to diving because he's a really good swimmer (he just does not love it), and it'll be so fun to watch him. Our lives will get hectic with Friday and Saturday high school meets plus the occasional club meet (like winter nats in Texas!), and right as HS season is ending, club season will kick into its pre-nationals frenzy right as dance season is also heating up. But! It's a short season and a delight, if my memory of Jack's time serves me.
SO I AM GOING TO LEAN IN to all of this. Brb-- signing up for a concession stand shift
Goggles I found in a Speedo backpack in the basement from last time Cooper swam competitively
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