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Vacations & Summer
| Tue, 05-25-2004 - 11:55pm |
With the kids being out of school, and it being summer now- how do you all get through the "away" time from your MM? Now we're going to have to go on family vacations and MM will be going on his vacations. With kids home it's awfully hard to just get away for the afternoons. Just phone calls and text msgs suck!
When I was in school, and kids were too it was really easy to slip away into bliss. Now it seems like my head is spinning with the "how and where" I'm going to sneak away. I am trying to convince my DH that my little two need every Friday in the Montessori School to get out of the house and play! Don't know if it will fly or not. My oldest would be able to hang at the pool for a while. ??
HELP I'm driving myself crazy!!!!
jen

I call these extra activities enrichment and I think all children need it - my daughter loves staying active she is in girl scouts and goes to camp for 10 days during the summer and she has lots of day camp activites planned such as horse back riding - painting and arts and crafts and she has a karate class once a week which allows me time to slip away with MM (I call this my ME time and I either say I go to the library - jumpt to the mall to look for a gift for un upcoming birthday or wedding or just sit and have something to eat - ) this is normal for me though, my H understands how I am - I also have a job that has very flexible hours where I can meet up with MM for a quick hello how are you ??
I can't see why your H would be upset for you wanting some "me" time - it's hard entertaining children over the summer
I pretty much have their schedules done and carpooling worked out in April - MM takes vacations all the time so the NC during vacation is a normalcy for the two of us - He will have his dose of my vacation time come July though so we will see how well that flies !!!
LOL
It's just part of the EMA you learn to deal with -
I have gone many weeks with no physical contact due to vacations and business trips. MM and I just have learned to be understanding about it and not put too much pressure on the other
Kikki
I really needed to hear that. This will be the first summer I have had to deal with this kind of thing and was wondering how I would plan it all out. I have a 16 y/o so if he is home he can take care of the other two. But hearing this:
"I have gone many weeks with no physical contact due to vacations and business trips. MM and I just have learned to be understanding about it and not put too much pressure on the other "
hit home because we haven't been with each other in over 3 weeks , he leaves for a business trip (two weeks long) next week and when he gets back it will be a total of 6 weeks since we will have been alone. I need to learn to be more understanding of it, but it hasn't been this bad! Last time it was 4 weeks and he couldn't believe it had been that long.... now 6 or maybe even 7 weeks?? He makes his own schedule and we are 5 min apart... (grant it we have way too many connections) there just doesn't seem to be an excuse for that much time apart.
I asked him what he thought about summer and the kids being home ects.. he said it would have to be more spontaneous.. OMG MORE spontaneous?? LOL HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
:)
dd