#28

Who wants to go swimming when it is fa-reezing and snowing like a mo-fo?! I do!

One awesome thing about Germany is their schwimmbads, a.k.a. swimming pools. They are super nice, with multiple swimming areas inside and out, including a kiddie pool and an indoor slide. Well, the pools I have been to in Germany have been that way, at least! They are nice.

So the family went today. I don't get to go that often, because I just don't want the hassle of taking my two year old twins there by myself. And the husband is not a fan of swimming. So going as a fam is a pain in the butt. Big huge cycle of crazy, huh?!

Sadly, because of the crazy cycle mentioned above, P and K are not quite comfortable in the pool. They take a while to get used to the pool and are nowhere near learning to swim. This all makes me, a fish, very sad. I wish we could go swimming every other day! Maybe I will brave a trip without the husband soon...

We had fun though. The girls did better than they have before. Sure it took them a while to lose the death cling, but they did. And toward the end of our time, P and K were going down the kiddie slide alone and having a blast. Which makes me want to go back tomorrow so they get that love for swimming!

While the girls napped, I took down the tree. Boxed everything up. Put it in the basement. And I found myself wondering when I will take it out again. This year was the first time J and I decorated since 2005. Deployments, neborn twins, and a trip to my family in CA are to blame. But who knows what will happen next year, or the year after that. heck, who knows what state we will be in for Christmas, or is J will be with us and not TDY or deployed. We shall see!