Tomorrow is my last swimming class, and I have figured something out.

I didn't simply become more coordinated sometime after high school, I just stopped exerting myself. I'm still damn uncoordinated.

This isn't really the sort of thing I wanted to learn. I wanted to learn that once you have the breathing, arms, and legs down pat it's really easy to combine them. (It may be for others, but apparently not for me.) I wanted to learn that never again will I suddenly experience the loss of some skill I had just mastered. (Betcha a dollar I will.) I really wanted to learn to swim very well, instead of making slow progress.

But, any progress is better than none! If I practice during the year I am sure to improve! That's the plan, anyway.

I'm also approaching the end of DS9.

This is annoying, because the next to last episode is my favorite, and I've just passed that. I could watch select episodes again, but it's best to take a breather, right?

But, I have a plan! This year, I'm introducing the nieces to TNG, which is the Star Trek I started with! Yup, we will do extra math, spelling help for Eva*, extra geography, and extra Star Trek! And swimming.

But I'm not sure. We all know the second season was worlds better than the first. Should I just start with the second season entirely, or soldier through the first anyway?

* By carefully perusing dyslexia and homeschool fora, I've finally found the right approach for her. Her spelling has improved by leaps and bounds, and she's much better at coming up with plausible spellings for words she doesn't know how to spell and at catching her mistakes. Plus, her ability to read aloud is improving, and that's always been her weak spot, despite how well she otherwise reads.

And the best part is that the curriculum I picked only takes about 15 minutes a day. It's called Apples and Pears, and I have no idea how it works, but I don't think she made this much improvement on her own in such a short time frame. No comments from the peanut gallery, because I honestly just don't.

(Okay, well, we also do some Spalding-style work, but I think that just reinforces. I don't have the diligence to really be on top of that.)