bigbabyblues
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- Joined
- Mar 25, 2004
Not the self-imposed guilt, I'm working through that. It's the guilt we're going to get from friends/family who don't understand why we'd leave them at home that I don't know how to deal with. Here's the deal:
DH is going to start school in the fall for a paramedic. It's a 1-year program, but he's going to have to quit his "real" job and work part time as an EMT and part time as a dispatcher, and I'm going to have to pick up more hours at work. Basically we aren't going to see much of each other for a year. Our marriage is fine, but it's going to be a rough year. We have 2 boys, ages 20 months and 4 years right now. I think it would do us good to get away for a few days before all this starts, and we're booked for the end of August. It started out as a couple days at a cabin or something around here, but DH wanted to go to Disney, like we did on our honeymoon. The $$ for the trip is not coming out of our family budget, it's coming from my paycheck, basically it's my extra money to do with what I choose (paid for my braces this way, and a few other big things). We took our kids last fall for 10 days and had a blast, and we'll be going again when he's done with school as a family before the oldest starts Kindergarten. I think we have a right to this trip, my mom is going to keep the boys here at our house, and the IL's may have them a couple nights too, not sure yet. I'm tempted not to tell anyone where we're going, because it's not the trip that will be the problem, it will be the destination. We will have our cell phones, so they can reach us if they need to.
Has anyone done this, and what did you tell people? I know certain people are going to give me a rough time over it, one friend already did and she doesn't know where we're going.
Thanks
DH is going to start school in the fall for a paramedic. It's a 1-year program, but he's going to have to quit his "real" job and work part time as an EMT and part time as a dispatcher, and I'm going to have to pick up more hours at work. Basically we aren't going to see much of each other for a year. Our marriage is fine, but it's going to be a rough year. We have 2 boys, ages 20 months and 4 years right now. I think it would do us good to get away for a few days before all this starts, and we're booked for the end of August. It started out as a couple days at a cabin or something around here, but DH wanted to go to Disney, like we did on our honeymoon. The $$ for the trip is not coming out of our family budget, it's coming from my paycheck, basically it's my extra money to do with what I choose (paid for my braces this way, and a few other big things). We took our kids last fall for 10 days and had a blast, and we'll be going again when he's done with school as a family before the oldest starts Kindergarten. I think we have a right to this trip, my mom is going to keep the boys here at our house, and the IL's may have them a couple nights too, not sure yet. I'm tempted not to tell anyone where we're going, because it's not the trip that will be the problem, it will be the destination. We will have our cell phones, so they can reach us if they need to.
Has anyone done this, and what did you tell people? I know certain people are going to give me a rough time over it, one friend already did and she doesn't know where we're going.
Thanks