May 30, 2006
Wanted: Vacation Manager
Position title: Vacation Manager
Job requirements:
- Daily slathering of two slippery children with SPF 50 sunscreen at two hour intervals throughout the day (extra if children are in water). Daily bonus paid if neither child develops any sunburn.
- Managing the contents of beach bag and diaper bag, as in constantly knowing what is in both bags, where all items are located within bags, and what needs to be replenished.
- Frequent trips to obtain forgotten camera, "nice fresh fresh juice", towels, sunglasses forgotten in the car from the night before, etc. etc. etc.
- Getting in very cold pool water to catch jumping child. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Oh, and repeat.
- Preparing baby food menu for each day. Includes obtaining food and finding a way to serve it at a tolerable temperature.
- Building sandcastles which includes chasing away crabs from inhabiting freshly built sandcastles.
- Bathing and dressing slippery, sunscreen covered children each night.
- Running child to the bathroom from the point most far away from bathroom while chanting, "Hold it. Hold it. Hold it."
- Butt wiping.
- Retrieval of all meals not eaten in a restaurant.
- Carrying all beach materials (umbrella, beach blanket, towels, cover-ups, beach bag, sand toys, cooler, book, beach chair, jogging stroller, tent, etc.) to and from the beach each day.
- Confronting neighboring hotel room occupants who happen to listen to the preview channel for 4 hours straight at the highest volume possible.
Qualifications:
- Endless patience.
- True love for children.
- No allergies to sunscreen ingredients.
- Strength of a pack mule to carry multiple heavy things at a time.
Anyone? Anyone? Not that I’m complaining because I’m having a great time; but it sure would be nice. . .
Are you sure that you’re on vacation??
That said it does sound very familiar…. 🙂
*cackle* Oooohhhh yes. So familiar. So familiar. I’m sorry I can’t apply for the job. I am perfectly, exquisitely qualified. However, I am already engaged with similar employment.
PS. Someday, we’ll be GRANDMAS! Then we can sit back, dandling the baby on our wrinkled knees, and watch the moms do it all.
Sorry, don’t really know anyone qualified for all that, well, except for every single mother out there, but they wouldn’t take the job for sure, unless it was their own vacation, that is. Hope you are having a GREAT time!
LOL I’m going on vacation to the beach in a week and a half. So I should save this post so I know what I’m in for! LOL Any other advise?
LOL I can imagine! Some vacation!
*grin* Hmmm…that sounds an awful lot like how my days are going recently. Except that I’m not at a vacation spot somewhere. So while I do possess the qualifications- I’m gonna have to pass.
And I had to giggle at the ‘hold it! hold it!’ comment ’cause, you know, that’s how it ALWAYS is, isn’t it? Alex likes to wait until we’re at least 20 miles away from the nearest potty (driving, obviously)…
Oh, I will start that job in about a week. Add on holding a toddler for 2 and a half hours and the toddlers have never been on an airplane before.
Sure…how much pay we talkin’? =P
Okay, I can do all of that 🙂 Except I have very little experience chanting “Hold it…hold it.” as Keenan is not trained yet.
My wife wants to apply, but she needs to know if bringing three extra slippery children would be alright. Thanks for the great laugh BBM! Reading your blog always makes me smile.
I’ll do it for an all expense paid trip to Hawaii…. 😉
I came across this and thought of you and Lil C
https://www.centuryfitness.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10051&storeId=10051&productId=84459&langId=-1&product_parentId=13679&crumb=13501&categoryId=13679&parent_category_rn=13534
I’ll do it! As long as you’re paying. 🙂 I can do all of the above chores, gladly.
what’s the pay? lol!
OK, if you find someone you’ll be sharing the name and contact info, right?