By Cindy Kent

I want to be Dara Torres, the Parkland Olympic hopeful and oldest female swimmer in the history of the games -- and cool mom.

Very cool mom.

(Just a little aside here - we, the media, tend to string together her vitals every time she is mentioned. We don't profile men the same way - "that 41-year old dad and oldest male in the history of...")

Torres is fit and full of energy.

I can see it in the photos of her and her with her daughter.

She said she was doing this for her daughter. I get that.

Being devoted to something, the follow-through and discipline, getting in shape and staying healthy to be your best for your family - I get that too.

So - I think I measure up pretty darn well to my fellow mom.

Well, not in a bathing suit perhaps - but in spirit, for sure.

I am a great example to my kids. I have passion, enthusiasm and energy in just about everything I do - including housecleaning, the laundry and yard work.

Though I'm still trying to get the kids buzzed about doing even the most mundane, yet necessary things in life - I know they see my joy in being their mom. I like to think of myself as their personal Olympian!

(Hey, where are those kids--just when I'm looking to quote one of them here?)



Cindy Kent is a Fort Lauderdale mother of three

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