The first thing happened as I was sitting by the pool waiting for my daughter to finish her morning swim. Her coach approached me, "Good news," she said. "Charlie is going up a level!" "Fantastic!" I replied, a small lump of pride giving the word an extra syllable.
"They start at 5am," she added, striding off to destroy some other parent's sleep plans.
"They... wh... huh?" I mumbled with a scrunched-up quizzical look, eyes straining to comprehend this information, the men in my brain rushing one way with the good news of a daughter's progress, bumping into other men with the bad.
I stared at the concrete lip of the pool, calculating my future alarm settings. After some intense negotiation between the aforementioned men in my head, we settled on 4.46am. Minutes matter.
This story is from the September 04, 2023 edition of New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
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