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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?

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