Friday, May 8, 2009

Here I am blogging on my ONE night kinda off, I'm not very cool .
I am BUSY. Busier than I have ever been before.
If you know me, thats really busy. I've worked full time, while in school and with 2 little kids.....I'm busier than that. I'm teaching at the gym.
M,W,F, right after I finish my lessons I throw on some workout clothes, make or buy a quick dinner and teach my night classes.
I've become a bit obsessed with foam rollers.
They are awesome.
I even convinced Mt. Side to buy 15 and add a class that people had to pay extra for.
Its a hit, people say its better than a massage!

I found a place in Maryvale where I can buy them wholesale and the I mark them up a couple bucks- I sold 16 in one day!
Lets note that I drove to Maryvale and back between helping out at Graces school and more swim lessons. (crazy mom with some messed up priorities, i know)

I'm learning to teach this...Reform Bar. We're adding a special class in Aug and I get to teach it, if I can master this thing.
This is what I've been doing 6-7 hours a day. I really actually like it. Especially the second week (they cry and hit me a lot less) AND they start swimming.

I still get a little nervous before lessons start. Its usually the first activity a lot of moms put their kids in. They don't know what to expect or they expect a lot. Sometimes the kids aren't ready but the moms ARE.

Keeping moms happy gets stressful.

I've been doing this 15 years, you'd think I'd be over this.....nope (that made me sound old)

The prepping for swim lessons is a bit of work too.

Making sure my kids are ok, cleaning....lots of cleaning. (if you want to motivate yourself to clean you should invite 70 people over a day).
You'd think.....HEY, Sarahs making a TON of $$$$ with this little biz......HA!
I've already spent $2000 on pool maintenance/repairs this month.
Thats after I've spent $25,000+ remodeling it the last few years. I won't make $ on this job for a loooong time.
But, we have a nice pool and I'm preventing drownings. That makes me happy.
Any left over $ goes to putting my kids in cool activities like this one... www.whitewingstudios.com and hopefully trips.
FINALLY Brynly is old enough to babysit, that saves a lot of $.
Even if babysitting is giving Elsie whatever she wants and locking her in the house.

Elsie, in her favorite dress, not watching the watershow. I think the watershow was last Saturday. We've had synchro stuff every weekend. Its not a hour deal, its a all day deal.
I dash to the pool after my swim lessons on T/TH and coach till 7:00.(Sat mornings too) Its pretty fun, the girls I coach are hilarious.
They don't listen to me very well but they make me feel young.... talking about boys, complaining about their parents.
One girl missed practice and said "all I did was sit home and spend 3 hours o Facebook, it made me feel lazy"
Gotta love that!
(maybe I should cut back on my facebook time a little too=/).
I crash every night, but its not so bad....
I'm actually much more organized than if I only work a few hours a week.
I try to really spend quality time with the kids when I get to see them rather than get rid of them, like before.
The kids love all the eating out and they are learning to be more responsible.
Only summers though, 4 months a year is enough.




4 comments:

diana said...

i love that picture of elsie, and her dress is fantastic. gosh you guys make some cute kids.

don't worry about letting me down at swim lessons, they're going exactly how i expected them to go... you're doing great!

Nash said...

seriously when do you stop and breathe?
you are doing great.

Teagan said...

I want a Foam Roller!!!
I love your classes!!
I am glad that you are a 'crazy go getter, do it all gal'... because I benefit from it:) ... we all do!
see you tonight

shannon said...

You are the craziest mom ever! I can't believe all the stuff you do on any given day. Then you get up and do again and again and again.