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what do you do when your kids go on holiday without you

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  • victory
    victory Posts: 16,188 Forumite
    Lotus-eater wrote: »
    Jump up and down, play loud music they don't like, lounge around naked, make love all over the house whenever you want to, eat rubbish food and you don't have to justify it.
    Basically enjoy yourself while you have some free time!

    Absolutely, stay in bed all day, go to the cinema in the afternoon, go out for a 3 hour lunch with wine:D perfect, drink champagne in bed:T
    misspiggy wrote: »
    I'm sure you're an angel in disguise Victory :)
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    My other half took our son away for a few days last December - it was actually the first time DS and I had spent a night apart. He was then 5. I couldn't go, as I was busy at work, but I made the most of it. I went out straight after work to meet friends, had a lie-in on Saturday morning with no-one prising open an eyelid and saying, "are you awake yet?"

    I did miss them both, though!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • victory
    victory Posts: 16,188 Forumite
    I remember when eldest was 6 and he went to his grandparents for a week, I spoilt it for myself by just walking around aimlessly like my heart had been ripped to shreds, I sat in his room and howled, could barely speak to him on the phone because everytime I heard his voice I welled up and did not want him to hear me like that, what a waste:rotfl::rotfl:

    Oh if only now:D
    misspiggy wrote: »
    I'm sure you're an angel in disguise Victory :)
  • reeree
    reeree Posts: 935 Forumite
    victory wrote: »
    I remember when eldest was 6 and he went to his grandparents for a week, I spoilt it for myself by just walking around aimlessly like my heart had been ripped to shreds, I sat in his room and howled, could barely speak to him on the phone because everytime I heard his voice I welled up and did not want him to hear me like that, what a waste:rotfl::rotfl:

    Oh if only now:D
    thats what lm afraid of, l just hope l can fill my days and that the time goes quickly which of course it wont, does anyone else worry like this or am l just being daft :(
  • Reggie_Rebel
    Reggie_Rebel Posts: 5,036 Forumite
    Move House?
    It's taken me years of experience to get this cynical
  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    MIL took mine to Spain last year, beaches and sun are not my thing, or OH's so we booked a week in Paris and went to Euro Disney without them lmao

    We had a fabulous time, as did the kids :)
  • jamespir
    jamespir Posts: 21,456 Forumite
    er have lots of sex
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  • FatVonD
    FatVonD Posts: 5,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Make sure he has some emergency money tucked away and takes his mobile (and charger) in case he needs to exit himself from a bad situation/get in touch with you. Maybe have a chat about who/where he could safely go to if, for instance, his mum and partner were kicking the hell out of each other.

    Can you tell I'm a worrier too? :D
    Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)

    December £361.54, November £322.28, October £288.52, September £374.30, August £223.95, July £71.45, June £251.22, May£119.33, April £236.24, March £106.74, Feb £40.99, Jan £98.54) Total for 2017 - £2,495.10
  • reeree
    reeree Posts: 935 Forumite
    FatVonD wrote: »
    Make sure he has some emergency money tucked away and takes his mobile (and charger) in case he needs to exit himself from a bad situation/get in touch with you. Maybe have a chat about who/where he could safely go to if, for instance, his mum and partner were kicking the hell out of each other.

    Can you tell I'm a worrier too? :D
    Yes thank goodness its not just me lol, youve given me some good ideas thankyou :)
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