Marie Holmes is the parenting reporter at HuffPost. Her work has appeared in Scary Mommy, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post and other publications. She lives with her wife and their two children in New York City.
Swim season has officially arrived. That means lounging poolside with a book in one hand and a cool drink in the other — oh, wait, you have kids?
Sound like fun? Put it to the comedic parents of X to sum up the experience in 280 characters or less.Also me: If you splash me one more time, I’m going to drain every last drop of water out of that pool.When you go in the pool with kids and tell them you don’t want to get your hair wet, they take that as a challenge.
At the hotel pool my 6yo kept saying “No sex in the pool” and I stared at him dumbfounded until I finally realized he was pointing at my socksJust as we got into the hotel pool today my toddler exclaimed loudly “I pooped!” Turns out she hadn’t, but by the time I realized that, everyone else had gotten out and we had the pool to ourselves. Kind of a brilliant move to be honest.
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