Sunshine and Swimming

So we are back in the Sunshine State for a month visiting the grandparents, and for my kids that means swimming - all the time. Now we have pools on post back in Oklahoma, but for some reason when we get here they want to swim all the time.

Don't get me wrong I love a good swim from time to time, but not as much as my kids and not as long. If you have ever spent any time with me you know I have a certain problem with extended periods of time in water, swimming, baths, doing dishes by hand. I cannot stand when my hands get pruny. I don't like touching anything and I don't like other people touching me when their hands are all pruny.

Weird, I know, but I really can't stand it, so all the swimming poses a problem. I don't like not getting in the water because I worry about their safety and it is hot jsut sitting in the sun, but I also don't want to get in because the kids like to stay for HOURS. Hours = Pruny hands and feet.

Inevitably I will get in and swim, get all pruny, and then get out. Now up until this point no one has needed anything from me, but 10 seconds after getting out with my pruny hands I am bombarded with requests, I need to go to the bathroom and I can't get the door open, I can't get my swimsuit off, I can't get my swimsuit back on, my goggles aren't right, I got something in my eye, I bumped my head, my hair is falling out, I want my hair out, I want my hair back up, and the list goes on. All these things require me to touch stuff and I'm pruny and I just hate it.

So my conclusion, there is no good solution, I will just have to grin and bear it as we literally become waterlogged . . . and pruny.