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The Beach

Well, if strawberry picking helps burn-out, then the beach heals it.  Despite Porkchop developing a summer cold and crying a good majority of yesterday, we are in our yearly beach bliss.  

• A front porch with two swings
• A crow's nest for watching Memorial Day fire works
• The Sugar Shack
• Bud and Alley's Taco Bar
• Illy coffee
• Homemade cinnamon buns
• Making formula from water and rocks
• Rented bikes, this year including bikes for the girls
• Fried or steamed shrimp baskets
• Oscilating between the beach and the pool

Oh yes, burn-out has been banished.  

Strawberry Picking or How to escape burn-out

I read once that if you are experiencing burn-out as a mother, the way out was to spend more time with your children.  BUT, you release everything else.  This other mother (of ten) suggested that burn-out was not really about your children being needy little beasts (okay she didn't call them needy little beasts) but that it was about the exhaustion that comes from having to choose between your children and ALL the other stuff (laundry, work, social commitments, cooking, cleaning, LAUNDRY).  

It was the dumbest thing I had ever read.  

Except, that I was fairly certain it was true.  

So.

Despite threat of rain and closure of the 45-minute far strawberry farm, we loaded the kids and headed out anyway, in the face of all reason.  

Of course, it was fantastic.