*At my girls’ dance festival today, a mom came up to me and told me how she loves following me on everywhere. And then she asked if she could give me a hug and she gave me such a sweet and sincere hug, it touched me so deeply! We talked just for a brief bit, much shorter than I had wanted to because my daughter was about to perform her dance any second, but I can’t stop thinking about this young mom, I want to find out more about her! And I asked her name but then totally forgot(I cannot rely on my mom brain at all lately), so if you are reading this, you know who you are, could you please email me at sarahtyau at gmail? I would love to go out to lunch with you sometime and get to know you!
“It will be a blue Summer without you. The sun can’t shine without you too. I’ll miss you more than if I hadn’t saw a rainbow for the rest of my life!” ❤️, Adi
Adi’s card to her teacher. Isn’t that the sweetest, saddest note? It breaks my heart. She gets very attached to people and she cried in my arms last night telling me how she didn’t want to say goodbye to her teachers. She said she cried again when she was saying bye to them today. Love my little girl who is so tender hearted and has so much love in her.
And today was the last day of school, hooray!
As tradition, we went to McDonald’s to celebrate the last day of school. Today also happens to be our anniversary but because it’s last day of school filled with dance festival, last day of school traditions, end of year block party, 2 birthday parties and Jay has Cub Scouts, it gets pushed aside to tomorrow, #parentslife!
So now that Summer has officially begun, we are busy planning their schedules for the Summer. The girls will attend an art camp, a coding camp, soccer camp, take gymnastics and continue their piano and
ukulele lessons and also take swimming lessons.
I had a huge scare last Summer, it was the most scariest moment of my life when we went to Seven Peaks. We were at the wave pool and Jay and my son went to go ride the rides and I pushed my girls in the double tube to the end of the wave pool, the deepest part. As the waves were going, one of my girls stood up and stood on one corner of the tube because she wanted to get out of the tube to be near me, and it flipped the tube upside down and me under the water. When I got above the water, I couldn’t see my girls and panicking, I searched around and saw my youngest girl about 10 ft. away, trying to keep her head above the water but having a hard time. She’s been taking swim lessons every year but wasn’t a strong swimmer yet. I swam as fast as I could and grabbed her and while holding her and keeping ourselves afloat, fighting the big waves, I looked for my other daughter, yelling frantically her name. I spotted her little head floating inside one of the holes of the upside down tube, screaming my name and crying, not having anything to hold unto since the tube was upside down and the handles were upside down as well. She luckily was a stronger swimmer but only enough to swim for a short amount of time and here I was realizing I was barely keeping me and my daughter afloat and getting really tired. I yelled, “Help! Help!” but the lifeguards were not even looking in the same vicinity, and I started panicking even more. Right then, as I was sure I couldn’t swim any longer and I was just about to go under in less than a minute, these two guys on a double tube passed right by and one guy said, “Do you need help?” and reached for my arm. I quickly grabbed his arm and while holding unto the handle on the tube, I yelled, “Do you see my daughter? She is 7, she has black hair, she was inside the hold of an upside down tube.” I don’t even know what I said and I probably didn’t even make sense because I was panting and out of breathe and panicking and scared to death. Right when I spotted her, I pointed to her and asked the guys to go get her but right then, another guy saw our ordeal and swam to her, grabbed her and flipped the tube, and with her holding unto the handle, handed her and the tube to me. I was still panting and out of breathe, and I just kept saying, “Thank you, thank you, thank you.” and then another guy handed me my hat and my sunglasses that I guess fell off me, which I wasn’t even aware of. With the girls gripping tight on the handle of the tube, I swam to the shore pulling the tube with me and I just sat by the shore dazed. I kept hugging my girls tight and we were just trying to all calm down.
Whew, my goodness, talking about this has brought out the fear and the anxiety all over again, my heart is literally pounding so fast right now and I feel sick to my stomach! This is my first time writing it down.
When Jay came, I told him what happened and this was our conversation:
Jay: “No, you weren’t going to die. You would’ve been fine.”
Me: “Uh, NO, I am telling you, we almost died.”
Jay: “No, you wouldn’t have. You are exaggerating.”
Me: (wanting to get pissy but still in shock mode and out of breathe) “I am serious. I have never been so scared in my life.”
Jay: “Your will to survive was stronger than dying. So you would have been fine.”
Me: “So…. You are saying all those people that drown and die, their will to survive was lesser than their will to die? So that’s why they all died?”
Jay: “Yep.”
And this is why we are in marriage therapy, guys! HAHAHAHA
ANYWAY, so ever since then, I’ve been wanting to take a swim lesson for myself and decided I’ll also be taking an adult swim class this Summer! Anybody want to take it with me? Haha. I’m totally serious. I know how to swim but I am not a strong swimmer, and definitely not a strong enough swimmer to swim while holding one of my daughters longer than a few minutes. And I want to be able to, just in case something like this happens again. So when Sunsational Swim School emailed me and asked if I’d like a few free swim lessons for my kids, I asked them if I could take the lesson instead! But unfortunately, they haven’t opened in Utah yet, I am so bummed! But I feel so passionately about every single person learning how to swim that I wanted to share this awesome company with you! A swim instructor comes to YOUR home or your community pool to teach your own private lessons. If you were not satisfied with your first swim lesson in any way, they will give you a full refund. What? Sold. I will be the first to sign up as soon as they serve in my proximate city! I am a little embarrassed and hesitant for my adult swim lesson, I hope I find a friend to take it with me so that we can make fun of ourselves together. This is one of the reasons, okay the main reason why I’d love to have a private lesson in a pool where there would be no one.
Go to the very bottom of http://www.sunsationalswimschool.com/ and type in your zip code to see if you’re one of the 1500+ cities served.
And use code: LIFEBEAUTIFUL for a free lesson with purchase of a 12+ pack , which expires 6/15. This code can be used for kids and adults!
Here are some facts to scare you, I mean educate you and hopefully motivate you to have your kids and/or yourself take swim lessons. I can’t say this enough, but I really believe every single human being should learn how to be a strong swimmer.
DROWNING FACTS
- Most drownings happen in residential pools
- Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death in children ages 1 – 4
- Every day in the United States: Two children under the age of 14 die from accidental drowning
- Ten children are hospitalized for non-fatal submersion injuries
- Six of the ten non-fatal submersion injuries are likely to result in permanent brain
damage causing: memory loss, learning disabilities, or even a life-long state of
vegetation - 9 out of 10 drowning deaths occur while a caregiver is present.
- Drownings can occur in any body of water including lakes, ponds, puddles, bathtubs, toilets, or even a bucket of water. It only takes 2 inches of water.
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