Finding Krissi

Sometimes in my life I simply mess up! Make a stupid choice and then life falls apart. Most of the time it happens because I am overwhelmed. Juggling way to many balls and life is out of control. I messed up, made a stupid choice, and I am now standing in the middle of the fall out. Thankfully there isn’t too much fall out and life is going to go on much like it has without too much change. Although, I have learned some major life lessons: #1 Never believe you are above being caught. You will get caught one way or the other your choices will come to light. #2 Never underestimate the comfort of loved ones. They’re there to wipe the tears and assure you that everything is going to be okay. #3 Never underestimate how much you are being watched. Even when you screw up if your previous actions have been above board people are more than happy to help you off your butt. #4 Humble pie goes a lot farther than anger and denial. If you did it be honest and apologize. After your ...

When I started theSwimMom my life was definitely wrapped up in the world of swimming. Two and half years later my life has morphed into so much more. One of the reasons I have struggled posting lately as I no longer feel like theSwimMom. In fact, with S. out of the water while she recovers from shoulder surgery and A. deciding he doesn't want to swim I feel like my world has very little to do with swimming. So I am moving to a new web address. I will be posting links on theSwimMom for the next little bit for all of you that have your feeds connected there but I will not be posting any new content. It is time to move forward and hopefully I will be able to do better at keeping up with all of the changes. Today has not been the best day. Yours truly did something pretty dang stupid and as the dust settles and I learn the full extent of the damage I will be sharing my story. Well you know as soon as that voice in my head quits yelling, "STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!...

Hi all I am moving my blog! Here is the link LearnLaughLoveLive.blogspot.com

Creating balance in my life is never an easy task. I personally feel like there is always that one thing that weighs so much heavier than everything else. Pulling me so far away from everything else that I am suppose to be doing that I start to loose sight and become totally consumed. Currently, that is the way I am feeling about school it is pulling on me so hard that I can't find the time to do everything else I have to do, should do, or even want to do. Honestly, it is scaring me a little how time consuming school has become and how I have not been able to find the balance between school and the rest of my life. Then I remind myself I have been here before. In this place where balance seems impossible to achieve. Somehow when balance is my goal I find it.  Only I can't remember exactly how I did it in the past and the weight of everything is getting a little heavy. The one aspect of my life I am missing right now is writing. I really enjoy keeping up this blog it is the time...

My birthday was on Tuesday and I was not looking forward to my birthday this year. For some reason I could not wrap my head around the fact that I was turning 35. I just kept thinking, "Yikes I'm almost to 40! When did I get old?" So I kind of lived in a land of denial and pretended that it wasn't really going to happen. I have to tell you I have a very good land of denial. You will all have to visit one day. The best part is once you step into my land of denial your 16. I was going to say 21 but the truth is I still feel like I am 16. In fact, sometimes when I act mature and handle things the way my inner 16 year old would not I hear her yell at me. "Hey, Old lady we are only 16 quit acting so Olllllldddd." She is rather obnoxious. My big day arrived and I had to work. I also had to deal with some school stuff and by the time I left for work I had worked up a serious pout. The inner 16 year old was defiantly in charge. Then I came home from work and walked ...

My husband thinks I hate my swimming job. Which is not the truth. I really don't hate my swimming job. What I hate is getting wet. The whole getting wet is annoying. Getting use to cold water, getting chlorine in my hair and on my skin, getting out of the water... That is what I hate. I know I'm a weirdo. Most days once I'm wet I kick back and enjoy my job. I get to spend a few hours playing with little ones and as my little ones are no longer so little I am really enjoying the hugs and the cute little giggles. So really if I could do my job and not get wet I would think it was the best job in the world. Currently, in addition to my normal classes, I am working with two special needs kids. Both kids are mentally high functioning it is there bodies that have special needs. The more I work with these kids the more I just want to cry. How many times on this blog have I said something wasn't fair? Well I take all of those back. Working with these kids I realize that the one...

One more class done. To date this had to be the hardest one. Not so much the subject but the professor was new and way ambitious. So of course her ambition tumbled into our class. On one hand I can tell you that I know the subject and on the other hand I can tell you that sometimes to much information is just that. TOO MUCH! Allright, that is enough complaining. All though the class totally wiped all of my creativity juices away, due to the amount of brain power I had to use to study, (By the way I learned ALL about how our brains process and hold information) I thought I could catch everyone up with some pictures. So here is a little bit of what has been going on. Soccer ended This is closeup of the above picture. Notice the tongue. What is it with this boy and his tongue one of these days I swear he is going to bite it off. H. played his first season of machine pitch. What do you think is baseball in his future? Al. finished her first season of softball. She did an awesome job and sh...