Back to the Grind

Our extended holiday break comes to an end.  Three Christmas celebrations, new years eve, a circus, fireworks, and much insanity with the cousins.  It was a fairly warm sunday so I outfitted the girls and towed them on the sleds to the boatyard and down to the town beach near the house.  The ladies spent quite a while throwing snowballs at the mushy sea ice before I took the initiative to start work on a snowman.  As soon as I rolled the lower ball, Phoebe caught on to what I was doing and became very distraught.  Instead of getting upset she lobbied for a snow caterpillar and somehow this morphed into a snow bunny.  I towed them home and Ellie helped Cristin make chili before the ladies sat down to lunch.  I took Phoebe to our weekly swim time and was semi-relieved to find that the pool was closing a bit early which truncated the cold swim from the usual 2+ hours down to 1.  I pushed her as much as I could and took off her floaty a bit and found that instead of being a little panicked as she usual would be, she was actually a bit cocky.  It turns out that when it comes to swimming, I think conservative is preferred.  She didn’t want me to give her any assistance.  The experience made me realize that I can only take her so far.  She needs some proper teaching again to get her to the next level.