Whose great idea was it to move into a subdivision with a community pool?
Oh yeah, mine...
See I thought it would be better to have a community pool that is sort of free (we'd be paying HOA fees anyways, I dare you to find a neighborhood around Indy that doesn't have them) than pay for a pool membership somewhere else that we'd never use. Like one year the twins asked for a pool party at the Y for their birthday. Greg and I figured that party cost like $1000 because in all the months we paid for the Y membership, we used it that one time (okay it wasn't quite that bad but it was close).
So back to the community pool. I've just realized I'm not a pool person. I never have been really. I don't like being in the pool water (we'll just ignore the whole "me in a swimsuit" issue for a moment) and sitting in an uncomfortable chair on concrete in the sun watching the kids play in the pool doesn't sound like much fun either. Especially when I have nine hundred and four things to do in the house. Like sewing. I can't sew at the pool. Or paint walls. Or mindlessly read blogs on my laptop (no community pool wifi, you'd think with the $$$ yearly fee they'd at least have internet at the pool).
Also? I don't want to blind anyone with my ghost white legs. If they hadn't already keeled over by my dimply thighs. The white legs I'm used to but I don't know when the cottage cheese skin thing happened and I'm not very happy about it. It would be kinda weird to wear jeans to the pool too.
Like the wonderful mother I am, I've put off going to the pool when the kids ask with lots of awesome excuses. The biggest and easiest one was we had boxes in the house to unpack. Drat, we took care of those over the weekend. Monday I desperately needed a day of sewing because it was beginning to look like I'd be at the Stitches show with 25 items on the single small table in a 10x10 foot booth (my goal is 500 by August 21st, I now have 82 pieces made). Yesterday I needed to run errands and I pacified the kids with ice cream. Today, I'm suppose to paint and strip wallpaper. Tomorrow... I'm running out of excuses. And the mommy guilt is beginning to set in because we only have a little over a month before school starts and we really haven't done very many summer activities.
I suppose this means I really need to take the kids to the pool sometime this week... *whine, curse, gripe, moan*
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