What I didn't expect...

I had no way of knowing. I've never been on a swim team before. My children had never wanted to be on a swim team before either.

Why?
Commitment.
Early morning practices, everyday, all summer long?? Plus 7am-3pm swim meets EVERY Saturday??
Doesn't sound like the way I wanted to spend a summer. I like to sleep in, swim for fun not work and Saturdays are for out of town trips.

However, we moved to a place where most kids join the swim team every summer. We might as well give it a try since that's where all their friends will be anyway, right?

Sure. Let's look at the bright side...my girls will become strong swimmers. That's good. Very good. It also gets them ready for soccer.

What I didn't expect was how nice it would be to have that routine. Getting up and walking down to the pool every morning...it's actually kind of nice. They swim for an hour and I talk with the other moms.
Most of them are easy to get along with...except one. She is awful! So awful that my stomach turns at the sight of her overweight, short, stubby little figure.
It's not her appearance that bothers me. It's the way she completely screwed up the swim teams finances last year that really pisses me off!

You see, when I signed up the girls for swim team, I signed up myself as well. I took an open spot on the board. Treasurer. It took me a while to figure out what happened to thousand of dollars that were twiddled away by the above said person. Plus she has a big mouth. She gets our board in trouble with her hot temper. She also crashed the computer by stuffing it with her own personal shit (excuse me...files).

But this morning I received a beautiful email from her.
The most lovely thing she's ever said..."I resign!"
Yeah! Next year will be GREAT!

That is of course, if I can manage to secure enough funds for us to have a team next year. We've been doing fund raisers and penny pinching. I'm being real stingy with the checkbook. Right now, I'm only cutting checks for coaches! Bracelets? We don't need no stinkin bracelets!

All that and I didn't even mention the dead beat dad that bounced his 200+ registration check, still shows up everyday with every excuse in the book for why he doesn't have the cash in my hand! I want his butt off the team! Would have been done a month ago if we weren't such a bunch of gutless, wanny pushovers! It has to be a board decision to cut his butt loose. This Monday night is our next meeting.
"All in favor of dropping the scumbag loser, say I! I! I!"

The worst part about that is this is NOT the first time he's done it. Last year he bounced the same damn check for which payment was NEVER collected. Kick him off now...kick him off for good! Too bad though, his kids are nice and very fast swimmers. I hate to see the kids suffer for having bad parents!

*Sorry for the swearing...I get a little upset over that!