meet #4

It seems the best nights of my summer so far haven't been spent with my high school grad friends. They haven't been spent with my young life pals. The best nights of my summer have been Monday night swim meets. I can't get enough of them. It should be weird that my best nights are spent with 5 and 6 year olds, and 20 and 30 year old coaches. But it's not. They are like family to me. I love the kids like they were my siblings, and one of the coaches has become like an older brother. Tonight while we were rounding up all the six and unders I had my camera out and we were all taking pictures. Needless to say i have some cute ones to add to this post later. Then I cheered so hard I now have a sore throat. I get to the meets 2 1/2 hours early to help set up and coach warm ups, and I stay an hour or hour and a half after it ends to help clean up. Most of the other coaches peace out. But I don't like to. Why? Shouldn't I have better things to do? Nope. There is literally nowhere I would rather be.
I've been listening to he script a lot. In one of their songs a lyric says:
If you could be anywhere that you wanted to be
With anyone that you wanted to be with
Do anything that you wanted to do
What would it be and who would it be with you

I was thinking about this the other day. I would be at a swim meet at forest hills. I would be cheering my heart out with coach Dave and Erik. The little kids would be all over me like usual. My parents would be there, smiling because they were so proud of me. Michael would be there cheering me on during my race, also proud. Proud that this is what I chose to fill my life with this summer. Loving on these kids. Building up these awesome relationships with the wyldlife girls on my team, and everyone else. I sometimes wish he could come back from work crew for one Monday night and see me. I think he would be proud. It would mean so much to me. But if I could do anything i wanted to, that's what i would do. Those are the people that would be there with me. i'd probably throw in a bunch of other friends too. but other than that, a monday night meet would be exactly what i'd do. Because they are my family, whether literally or figuratively.
But while my parents don't come to the meets and neither does Michael, these nights are still by far the best of my summer. I'm so blessed.