Today for work, I had to go to the pool with the kids I work with. It didn’t really hit me until I got in the water and it was freezing and I was on my tippy toes trying to keep as much of my body out as possible. All of a sudden a million flashbacks starting flooding in of Shelby and I in that exact pool just a few years ago trying to keep as much of our body’s out of the water laughing. We would go twice a week to try and help Shelbys back pain although we dreaded it. On the drive there, we would take the long way around driving as slow as possible laughing ours butts off at how ridiculous we were. We would slowly get in the pool, do a few laps and then sit where the jets were just talking and laughing. Before getting out super early so we could take extra long showers and then slowly drive home so Marybeth wouldn’t know how much swim time we were skipping out on. I couldn’t really swim and Shelby never let me live that down. During our time in the pool she taught me how to tread water (it took a few sessions 😂) I was supposed to be there to help Shelby but there she was helping me. I hated swimming and so did she but it started the most amazing friendship and gives me the most wonderful memories.