I was simply bursting with pride last week - bursting.

Here are just a few images of Ruby and Will’s school swimming carnival.  By the end of the day, I felt exhausted from running up and down the side of the pool snapping photos, and cheering my kids on, and doing my absolute best not to be one of THOSE mums - you know what I mean.  I seriously hope I didn’t emabarass my children.

Here is why I was exhausted.  Ruby swam the 50m and 100m of freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke AND butterfly.  And if this hasn’t exhausted you yet, she then turned around and swam the individual medley.  OK, a little bit of mummy bragging here - she won every race except for the 2 breaststroke races where she came second.  She was the only female competitor in 100m butterfly, so she raced against the boys, and she won.

Inbetween Ruby’s swims, Will competed in the 50m of all strokes, with 2 firsts, a second and a third.

So there you go, I can just have this little moment to be the proudest mum in the world.

Oh, and by the way, the kids were exhausted to