Previously posted elsewhere... INSTINCT

instinct? june 2008Share.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

so i had a moment of panic today while at the pool with the kids. being the excellent mother that i am, i put my chair next to the side of the pool so as to be able, in one fluid movement, jump up from my chair and into a graceful dive, slicing the water without a splash and saving one or the other of them from the imminent danger of drowning. like the not so excellent mother that i am, i promptly lost myself in my book. the amount of time is irrelevant (no, seriously, it wasn't really THAT long).

when i was finally brought back to reality by some adorable child who doused my book with water, i raised my eyes to check on the safety of my children. i saw L right in front of me, swimming happily in his shark goggles and swimmies (yes, it's true),but G i couldn't seem to find. after about 5 minutes of searching through a pool full of screaming, jumping, rather annoying kids i was beginning to get nervous when i spied, at the far end of the pool, the back of a head emerge from the water. it was G.

ok, so the whole reason for this rambling blog is to point out that as soon as i saw the back of her wet head surface i didn't need to take a second look(of course, i did. what kind of mother would i be if i didn't? the kind who reads by the pool never watching her kids?? please), i could definitively recognize my child with only the barest evidence of identification. cool.