Monthly Archives: November 2011

The summer of 2011 was an awesome one with plenty of things to remember.  One glaring memory for me is Jake swimming across the creek at the Motel in North Carolina.  Jake had become friends with this girl about 2 years older than him, she and some of her friends would jump in the creek and swim to the other side so they could jump off one of the big rocks.  Well, after debating if I should let him, I figured what the heck he’s a good swimmer (and I was right there anyway).  He jumps in to this gleaming mountain creek and starts swimming.  My heart drops as I notice he is actually swimming diagonally instead of vertically across the creek.  This is because the water was rushing a bit more than I thought not because he was just a crooked swimmer!  Instead of panicking and potentially embarrassing him in front of his new found friend, I let his determination kick in.  He swam his little mighty ass across that creek like he had done it 50 times before.  Leave it to me to burst his bubble though because once he got over I wouldn’t let him jump off the rock!  Ha.  Either way, just a reminder to my son to always stick it out and never look back.  You can do anything you put your mind to (even if there isn’t a girl involved)!