So we travel a few miles into Bentonville and go to the free Splash Park. I can handle it for the most part and the kids like it. So why the post? Well I am getting really annoyed at people treating me like a freak for not having a pool pass. So many people we know have them. The ward playgroup even meets there. For the annoyed eye rolls I get you would think I have said I cannot go because I have chosen not to own a car. I don't want the stress of dressing my kids, taking them and all the gear, then watching them like a hawk without blinking for and hour or two. Not to mention that these things usually end in tears for one reason or another. Something always seems to happen. So no, we don't have a pool pass; and yes, it's okay.
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| This was the best shot Spike would allow. |
*Shout out to my known readers Meg and Lara. I don't mean you guys and do appreciate any invitations sent our way.
3 comments:
I wouldn't stress about it. This is the first year that I have taken my kids to the pool by myself. I din't do it for ever for very good reason. Um its water and kids can drown. I also don't like to go during playgroup because then I feel like I have to watch a lot of kids and not just my own. So don't feel bad at all for not having a pool pass. I have learned that my kids prefer to go in the evenings because hardly anyone is there. It is so much nicer. So anytime you would like to go in the evenings just call me. Also, I put life jackets on my youngest ones. Cole just swims aroung by himself in is life jacket. But, that was something that just started happening at the end of last summer.
You and me are in the no-pool-pass club sista.
This post was interesting to me because this is my first summer in a place where meeting at the beach/pool is THE thing to do. I have missed out on the vast majority of these events because it is just too dang tiring for me to take even one kid to the water. But the couple events I have gone to have been really, really surprising for me. Some of the moms just sit on the pool/beach chairs and just let their kids go off, even kids as young as 2. I am not trying to be judgmental; I am just honestly shocked. Arm floaties may be good, but I can think of about 50 ways that Addison could wreak havoc or hurt herself if I left her to her own devices for 10 seconds while I was on the other side of the beach/pool. I don't know, maybe I'm extreme, but water safety is a HUGE deal to me because I think it is one of those things that we tend to miscalculate. Far more kids get hurt/die related to water than guns, but it certainly doesn't get the same outcry. Anyway, I think I would be in the same club with you if we lived nearby.
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