Monday night we finished dinner and as I tried to move the children upstairs for bath my son says, “But mom, we have to watch the Olympics!”

It was very exciting for two weeks as we watched swimming and diving and track and field and gymnastics. We had watched some of the televised events leading up to the Games selecting the U.S. teams and then the Games themselves.

And yes. Like the youth I wrote about in Monday’s paper, my kids have been asking to take gymnastics and swimming now. I’m don’t know how we would have the time with soccer and football seasons around the corner for them - but for swimming, we probably should make it. Swimming lessons in Arizona are crucial. My son is a pretty good (and very natural) swimmer and my daughter is fearless (which scares mom), so I’m more than willing to to do lessons again.

But as for the Olympics, we’ll have to wait two years to watch them again. And my son was more than a bit sad when I told him it was over.