Slacker Mom No More

I confess, I am a slacker Mom, evident by the fact that for two years we've live in a place that gets hotter than the surface of the sun but just yesterday my girls had their first swimming lesson.
In the hot months we're at the pool at least twice a week, so swimming without real lessons have lead to very bad habits. Athena will not enter the water without her bright orange arm floaties and Zoe is quite used to always being held.
The girls were very excited about starting swim lessons, but when we got to the pool Athena asked for her floaties right away. "No floaties for swim lessons!" I said cheerfully which sent her cowering to her "baby penguin" position - tucked into a ball sitting in between my legs.Zoe, meanwhile, started lifting up my shirt and looking for my bathing suit. "I didn't bring mine you're going to be swimming with your teacher." She didn't like that idea at all and suggested I swim naked. Taren showed up right about then all smiles and light and led the girls to the edge of the pool. I hightailed it out of there as quickly as possible, they are always much braver when I'm not around.
I snuck back in 20 minutes later to find Zoe talking a blue streak to Taren and both girls having the time of their lives. They learned to get in and out of the pool, float on their backs, make a sandwiches with their hands, plus a few new songs about swimming.
Tomorrow we going in head first!