please don't do that

We had swimming lesson this morning. I think i have mentioned the locker room situation before. The officer is usually unable to go to the swim lessons with me so I have both the kids. When swim lessons are finished, we go into the ladies locker room to dress. I throw a towel over my son's head and he goes into a bathroom stall to dress. When he is finished he comes out of the stall and stands around a corner just by the door and waits for my daughter and me. I am very careful about not letting him into the "locker room" portion of the dressing room for obvious reasons.

Today when we arrived, a man who I recognized as a swim instructor came up to me and asked me how old my son was. I told the man he was eight. He informed me that on Wednesday there were complaints about older sons getting dressed in the ladies locker room with their mothers. This was not a direct complaint about my son; however, it did affect us. I said, "I completely understand, I don't particularly like him dressing in the ladies locker room either, but there was no way I going to let him change in the men's dressing room all by himself." The man said he completely understood and that there was a restroom by the lap pool we could change in. This was fine with me.

When swim lessons were over, I took my kids to the lap pool and rinsed them off in the shower. As they were rinsing off, I opened the door to the restroom. It was a descent size restroom with one toilet and a sink. However, when I opened the door a very strong odor of urine wafted out of there. I wrapped my kids up in their towels and headed to the bathroom in the heated pool area. The bathroom in the heated pool area is okay but it is literally smaller than a handicap stall. I wouldn't be able to get in there to help my kids out. It worked out okay. I went to the front desk to see if this was our only option and they said, "yes. sorry." I don't think they were worried about it at all.

Am I just being paranoid? Well, of course I am, but I don't really care. A fitness center should have at least one family restroom available or at least a larger one that doesn't smell like urine.

OY!

We went to Target after swim lessons. I noticed girls jeans on sale for $8. I purchased my daughter two pairs because she only has ONE pair of jeans without holes in the knees. That pair of jeans are the dark shade and the knees are faded out. I decided I will do what I do for the officer. I keep one pair of the officer's jeans in my closet, so we both know he has one good pair to wear to church. Somehow, the officer's jeans get holes, oil stains, or goodness knows what else on them. Since he will only wear one kind of jeans, light colored Levi 560s, it can get hard sometimes. So now I have to do this with my daughter too.

I was tired after all our running around so I told my kids I wanted to lay down to take a nap.

I said, "mommy wants to lay down for a nap, so please don't run in every five minutes to tell me something okay?"

my daughter quickly replied, "oh do you just want us to walk?"

no, no i don't.