{"id":337,"date":"2008-08-19T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2008-08-19T09:37:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:37:24","slug":"another-beach-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/another-beach-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Another beach attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 4 (Tuesday)<\/p>\n<p>As I type this, I am lounging in my bathing suit on a massive couch by the swimming pool. Euro-sounding Mexican music is playing on the speakers, waves are crashing below me at the beach and some of the locals are setting up a marketplace for all the Club Med tourists who will want some Mexican souvenirs without even leaving the compound. Wow, we sure are allowed to be lazy here.<\/p>\n<p>Not too long ago I finished reading a novel I started reading yesterday afternoon. Life here is certainly not hard. I&#8217;m deciding on writing a review of the novel, by the way. If I do, you might know about it before you learn I&#8217;m on vacation. I&#8217;m waiting to post all my vacation-oriented observations until we return home. But if I write the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/fun-book-review-the-bright-side-of-disaster\/\">review,<\/a> I could just publish it right away. Hmm. See, these are the tough decisions I am making this week.<\/p>\n<p>Later that afternoon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My daughter is not a beach girl. The waves terrify her.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in this beautiful paradise of gently crashing waves, brilliant sunshine and silky sand-which she wants nothing to do with. I&#8217;ve tried to take her to the beach twice. No go.<\/p>\n<p>The second time (which was today) I tried to just sit with her and play in the sand. I brought buckets and shovels and sifters and enthusiastic brothers. No way. She knew those waves weren&#8217;t too far. I guess they weren&#8217;t far enough.<\/p>\n<p>So, while she was clinging to me with every ounce of strength she had, I summoned the boys who wanted to know why they couldn&#8217;t go deeper into the ocean, by the way, and made the unpopular decision to move to the pool.<\/p>\n<p>The boys complained. Natalie was near crying. And, as we walked by an outdoor yoga class, I almost felt like crying myself.<\/p>\n<p>But off to the pool we went and it didn&#8217;t take long for all 3 kiddos to splash around, have fun and be reunited with friends. Then, once presented with vacation drinks (smoothies) I was a hero again. Until it was time to go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207\" title=\"momflower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 4 (Tuesday) As I type this, I am lounging in my bathing suit on a massive couch by the swimming pool. Euro-sounding Mexican music is playing on the speakers, waves are crashing below me at the beach and some of the locals are setting up a marketplace for all the Club Med tourists who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[84,83],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-uncategorized","tag-beach","tag-club-med-ixtapa-pacifica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}