What I think about THIS and THAT and everything in between

Wow!!! It's been over a year since I posted on this blog. What have I been doing? What have I been doing with all of those random thoughts I used to write about all the time? Let's see if we can all get caught up real quick, shall we?
In a nutshell my life has been work, kids, and teaching at the pool. It's crazy how time consuming those three things can be. We just celebrated my nephew, Ben's, 1st birthday yesterday. It's crazy to think that he's already a year old. It seems like...

Well, it’s finally time! I did day 1 of my ISR training yesterday. In case you’ve not been following my obsessive posts about this, ISR is Infant Swimming Resource. It’s teaching kids between 6 months and 6 years of age how to survive in the water. Infants...

I’ve been begging you guys to help me pay for the training cost to become an Infant Swim Resource instructor for a while now. We’ve made progress, but I’ve still got a long ways to go. So, if you can donate, please do so at www.GoFundMe.com/shanon
Yesterday was the 6th anniversary of Ethan and Rolando’s death. I think I had so much anxiety leading up to the day that yesterday I was kind of out of it. Not numb to it, but in a place where I didn’t know what to think or feel. I still feel overwhelming...

I’m so excited, you guys. Jake finished his ISR swim lessons on Friday and he passed all of his skills!
I don’t expect many people to know a lot about these classes, so let me tell you about them. We would go to lessons for five days a week. Each lesson was a maximum of ten minutes. Why? Because these babies work really hard and that’s all they have the...