SEATTLE -- A Suquamish mom and her family were one of the two families featured on the ABC hit show "Wife Swap" on Wednesday night.

In the episode, which was filmed last summer, Sarina McDonald swapped lives with a lumberjack wife, from whom she couldn't be more different.

By day, McDonald is a real estate agent. By night, she's a passionate burlesque dancer who goes by the name of "Ravenna Black."

But that meant nothing to her new swap family.

"I'm a burlesque performer. Do you guys know what that is?" she asked the family on the show.

No, they didn't. And so began her adventure of living in a foreign world with strangers for family.

McDonald said the swap was chaotic and exhausting with cameras rolling 12 hours a day.

"You're condensing someone's entire life in a few days. I think nothing can prepare you for the pace," she said.

But despite the whirlwind pace and the mountain of differences between their lives, the mothers eventually assimilated.

"Andrea", the lumberjack wife who initially tried to convince McDonald's family to purge their home of burlesque-related items, learned to strip tease.

And McDonald learned to chop wood.

But even harder than learning to chop wood was not being able to talk to her kids.

"Oh my God, did I miss my kids. That's the thing that's funny. You're not allowed to have contact your family," she said.

Her sons Tyler and Will, on the other hand, rather enjoyed the experiment.

"It was great, I liked her (Andrea)," Tyler said. "She let us do whatever we want."

For McDonald's husband Don, who tearfully defended his wife's burlesque props when Andrea tried to toss them out, the experience was too emotionally-draining. His wife agrees.

"I'm done with reality TV now," Sarina said.