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A Lifelong Dream Come True and How we will afford to do it
A couple of weeks ago, my husband rang me and gave me some news that I thought would never happen – We had won 2 tickets to see the Synchronised Swimming at the Olympics in London in August. I’ve always talked about seeing the synchro at the Olympics, well before it was confirmed that they would be happening in London and certainly, well before Millie started being involved with synchronised swimming. We didn’t even enter the draw to win tickets though as the timing of the Games clashed with our holiday in France. So imagine my surprise to get a call saying that through being a member of our swimming club, we had been entered into a draw to win some tickets that they are allocated. But we still had the problem of being in a different country to where the Games were taking place. So what did we do? We only booked flights back from our hols for Millie & Me – Yes, we are taking a holiday from our holiday and it has cost a fortune. We have had to book 2 nights in London (yep, leaving OH in France on his own with the 2 littlies) – more »
What would be your synchronised swimming song?
Anyone that knows my family knows that we go swimming. A LOT! Its 5 days a week at the moment and some days there are up to 4 hours of swimming. I like washing towels Recently, Millie (9) has discovered a new love and one that she seems rather good at – Synchronised Swimming. I used to be a synchronised swimmer when I was younger and loved it and thought Millie would too. So we went along for a trial. She’d only been in the pool 15 minutes when I saw the look on her face that told me she loved it and I was going to be spending even more time by the side of a pool. Well, there’s great excitement in our house this weekend. Millie is now moving on from practising figures and is starting routines. And with routines, comes music. Argh. Last night, Millie & Derm were asked to bring 2 pieces of music that she likes that would be suitable for a routine lasting 2 minutes (I have no idea how to crop music but that’s a conversation for another day). So where do we start? There’s so much at stake here – we don’t more »
