Semi-single parenting ho!
As the kids have aged our ability to both go away for a con at the same time asking Mum to look after the kids while we're away (yes, I live a charmed life and Mum is AMAAAZING) has passed and we rarely do it. However conveniently there are now two filk cons in Germany most years, so I go to DFDF and Phil goes to FilkContinental and everyone is happy. This year I also had a week's holiday in France without Phil because it was a beach holiday and he does not see the point of beaches, let alone a whole week of mostly being on one. I took the kids with me (and Mum - it's a combo of her also being amazing and a recompense to her for all the amazing things she does) but it left us with a serious disbalance between amounts of holiday taken.
Phil is adjusting this balance by adding in a holiday to his trip to FilkContinental, so this morning after dropping A2 at school he toddled off to Germany to stay with Rika, visit tank museums and German steam trains and the Kinders and pick up Seanan from the airport and attend the con. He's going to be away for a week and a half. He did not take the kids with him. I mean, I know they have school and all but... but...
So I now get to embark on the grand adventure of being the only parent in the house, but it is only semi-single parenting because I am cheating and roping in Mum to help with the school run (I'm normally at my desk and working before A2 even needs to leave the house to get to school, have I mentioned that Mum is amaaazing?). But still. Adventures in parenting.
To balance things out I am very much going to take advantage of the fact that Phil is away to fill the house with smells of garlic, fish and cheese. He's threatened to add a few days onto the end of the trip for the house to fumigate. The kids tell me that we should have pancakes for dinner, but that might have to wait until I've recovered from eating cakes (plural. om nom nom) from the Macmillan Bake Sales we've had here this morning.
Adventure!!!
Phil is adjusting this balance by adding in a holiday to his trip to FilkContinental, so this morning after dropping A2 at school he toddled off to Germany to stay with Rika, visit tank museums and German steam trains and the Kinders and pick up Seanan from the airport and attend the con. He's going to be away for a week and a half. He did not take the kids with him. I mean, I know they have school and all but... but...
So I now get to embark on the grand adventure of being the only parent in the house, but it is only semi-single parenting because I am cheating and roping in Mum to help with the school run (I'm normally at my desk and working before A2 even needs to leave the house to get to school, have I mentioned that Mum is amaaazing?). But still. Adventures in parenting.
To balance things out I am very much going to take advantage of the fact that Phil is away to fill the house with smells of garlic, fish and cheese. He's threatened to add a few days onto the end of the trip for the house to fumigate. The kids tell me that we should have pancakes for dinner, but that might have to wait until I've recovered from eating cakes (plural. om nom nom) from the Macmillan Bake Sales we've had here this morning.
Adventure!!!