Jessica

With the advent of warmer temperatures, we take more and more of our lives outside, soaking up as much sunshine as we can before our short summer ends all too soon.

The first event of the summer is our week long swim camp.  Held at the end of May / beginning of June, it’s still sometimes awfully cold up at the hot spring, but if we don't start summering right away we'll miss the season altogether!

Dozens of families and 200 children gather with tents or campers, swimming suits, warm sleeping bags, and yummy food at a nearby indoor pool fed by a hot spring near Driggs, Idaho.  The establishment lets our large group come and enroll our children in two-a-day swim lessons for a solid week before their typical season opens. 

The children learn from certified Red Cross instructors and then swim even more during open plunge.  I can barely get my kids out to eat a few bites before they jump back in to swim some more.  At night, when it is just getting dark, I tuck my exhausted, lotion-soaked kids into their sleeping bags and read my Kindle by the glow of a clip on light.  They sleep like logs and I have to wake them the next morning to make it to their swimming lessons in time.

It’s a lot of work, and fairly exhausting for mama and kiddos, but oh it’s a good way to start off the summer -- swimming like fish, eating like lumberjacks, and exercising those winter-weary limbs.

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