Vacation from the Vacation
19 September 2010
Categories: Family
Categories: Family
Vacation
is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, you’re away from the work
routine. On the other, there are extra stressors: traveling to and
from the destination, deciding about activities, spending money,
odd food, irregular sleep patterns, and site-specific hazards. In
the latter case, at the beach for example, one could include
sunburn, biting flies, bedbugs, sand scrapes, and too much alcohol.
Oh, and if you take children the list expands exponentially. For
example, if the children are not off from school, you might try to
take the assignments for the week with you to the beach along with
all of their textbooks, workbooks, pencils, erasers, paper,
protractors, and assorted supplies. Then try to get kids at the
beach to actually do homework-Ha! Or you could just give up and
resolve to finish at home, with the following result:
So my advice is: don’t take any vacations until there are no children along. . . but then that would only be about half as much fun, right? Right?
So my advice is: don’t take any vacations until there are no children along. . . but then that would only be about half as much fun, right? Right?