She Can Do Hard Things...

6:30 A.M., 60 minutes, 32 laps, 1 Mile of swimming. And she did it.

In order to pass the last class of swimming lessons, you have to swim a mile, any stroke you want, in an hour. Last Friday she did it.

Did you know that at 6:30, the sun isn't even up? When they started, the pool was steaming a bit, but the kids said it wasn't even that warm. But they didn't talk about it for long, they just started swimming.

Annie has a beautiful back stroke. She's lean and long, and it is beautiful to watch because she makes it look so easy.

She also has a pretty effective front crawl, but she's had a bad cold, and couldn't breathe really well, so she mostly swam the breast stroke.

She wasn't the first one done, but like we had talked slow and steady wins the race.

This really is a hard thing to do. And I am so proud of her for doing it.