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post #1 of 27
5/31/06 at 6:24pm
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Would you ever take vacations without your young children?

How do you feel about parents who take vacations without thier children?
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post #2 of 27
5/31/06 at 6:32pm
Sure I would take a vacation without the kids. Great way to reconnect with your spouse or go with girlfriends and find yourself without having to be Mommy for awhile.
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post #3 of 27
5/31/06 at 6:37pm
Yep. I find myself so much more refreshed and ready to deal with them after a vacation. We took our first one when Lyssa was 4.5 months old and we went away for a week.

HOWEVER. nowadays I am much less likly to leave the kids behind. I just feel guilty dumping them off somewhere since i have 2 (soon to be 3)
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post #4 of 27
5/31/06 at 7:34pm
What Krista said !
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post #5 of 27
5/31/06 at 8:01pm
A short weekend yes. But I don't understand how parents can leave their young kids for a week or more. I've known some that did it and I just couldn't do it.
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post #6 of 27
5/31/06 at 9:23pm
I'm the odd one out.
I couldn't/wouldn't do it.

I had a problem leaving them at daycare for a day.
I have never let them stay over night anywhere (with the except of when I was in labor with Delaney.)

I don't have a problem with other people doing it, I just personally wouldn't do it myself. I would rather take a vacation where all of us could go and have fun.
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post #7 of 27
5/31/06 at 9:24pm
I think that it would be great to have a small vacation... like Dawn said , but I tend to feel guilty for leaving them behind and doing things!!!
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post #8 of 27
5/31/06 at 9:30pm
I agree with you, Shari. Besides dd would kill us for going to Disneyland without her! If I knew she (they, soon to be ) was going to be having a great time with someone else, then maybe we could do it for a weekend, but honestly, it would drive dh nuts. He'd be calling every hour to check on the kids. He's worse than I am about leaving her for any period of time.
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post #9 of 27
5/31/06 at 9:54pm
YES!!!!!
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post #10 of 27
5/31/06 at 10:29pm
I sure hope we can still get away for a vacation here and there with out the kid. A weekend here and there when they are really little but by the time they are 5 or 6 I hope I'd be able to leave them for a week. I know my family would love to have them for a week or even more.
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post #11 of 27
5/31/06 at 10:44pm
Yeah I would, but not all the time.
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post #12 of 27
6/1/06 at 2:59am
i think i might, but i doubt that dh will, his kind of vacation is disney so there is no point going without logan
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post #13 of 27
6/1/06 at 3:45am
I don't have a problem with other ppl doing so but I don't think I'd go on a holiday without Hayley (not at least until she was a teen, even then...) Hayley has been away from me and Grant for one night (twice) and I felt a bit funny about it so I couldn't imagine leaving her for a whole week or so especially if we're overseas or interstate.
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post #14 of 27
6/1/06 at 3:49am
i totally agree! i haven't spent one night away from Logan yet.
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post #15 of 27
6/1/06 at 9:45am
I'm with most of the ladies. Man what it would be like to go on Vacation without them!!! I got to go in April with just Kyan, but still it's different. And what do I think about people who get to? LUCKY!
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post #16 of 27
6/1/06 at 11:47am
I would love to

This year we are taking a mini vacation and leaving braylen home, so it'll just be us and rhyne
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post #17 of 27
6/1/06 at 12:18pm
Jason and I took a mini one at Valentine's Day, my parents came down to visit with the kids. I felt guilty but I was so much more refreshed when I came back. It was kind of nice to not be Mommy, Mommy for a little while.
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post #18 of 27
6/1/06 at 1:11pm
I don't think there is anything wrong with going on vacation without your kids, but I don't think I could do it personally. I think I would just be so sad without her that I wouldn't be able to enjoy myself.
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post #19 of 27
6/8/06 at 11:53pm
In a heartbeat! Once they are potty trained and pretty confident in themselves with whoever I would be leaving them with! I would give my right arm to not have to be "mommy" this and "mommy" that for 1 whole week. Would I miss them....YES.....would I feel bad....NO!
It's been 9+ years since I had a whole week to just be myself....and maybe I am selfish but I wouldn't think twice about it if I had the opportunity. I'd leave DH too....
I'm with Shona....I call them extremely lucky!


SO anybody want three kids and a husband for a week :wink:
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post #20 of 27
6/9/06 at 12:01am
Where can I sign up?
Hell, right now just one single night alone is a vacation for me. I drove them to MS on Memorial Day weekend so my parents would keep them and give me 2 nights alone. But, ya gotta figure that I had not had but 1 night without them since before the end of last year. It had been alllllll me and them. Mommy needed a break.
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post #21 of 27
6/9/06 at 10:05am
Yes, I do every year. I go to Myrtle Beach more recently with friends however in the past I went with the Ex. I also will plan a family vacation as my children get older as well. The much needed time to rediscover your non-mommy side
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post #22 of 27
6/9/06 at 10:27am
Yes, dh and I try to get away about once a year for a couple days without the kids. It is a nice break and a way to rejuvenate the marriage. However, last November we went to Jamaica for a week without the kids. It was the longest time away from our youngest one. It was our first big vacation without the kids. We were both ready to come home. Plus, our family takes vacatations every year from 1 1/2 weeks to 2 weeks so it is not like we don't take vacations as a family.
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post #23 of 27
6/9/06 at 11:16am
I'll take your three kids and dh for a week if you take my four and dh for a week. Sound like a deal? Remember, I have all boys, almost all only a year apart.
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post #24 of 27
6/9/06 at 12:01pm
Defiinitley. We have done it before and have enjoyed our time alone for a few days. We also do vacations with the kids to. But I do beleive couples should have a little vacation by themselves to enjoy just each other even if it is for just a couple of days.
I have no problem at all with it. We are hoping to go on a 7 day cruise next year and I am totally fine leaving the kids with their grandparents. The kids I know love staying with them.
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post #25 of 27
6/9/06 at 2:07pm
Yep. Not that we have had the opportunity to do it. It is usually either me or DH going away by ourselves. But hey, that works too!
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post #26 of 27
6/9/06 at 3:43pm
Shona....heck....I could just drop them all off and spend the week down there(close, but not too close ) . I'll take yours for a week as long as I can just stay at your house to do it.......I would LOVE to live near the beach...heck I haven't even seen one in about 13 years!
I'd say we could trade houses but there isn't anything good around here unless you are into the civil war(Gettysburg), or Amish life, or Hershey Park.

As for the 4 boys thing....heck, I am only one behind you and when you throw my DSD in that leaves you stuck with the boys and a moody teenage girl...

I think we should just keep our respective hubby's....better the evil we know then one we don't
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post #27 of 27
6/9/06 at 4:17pm
No I could never. I mean an overnight here and there or a weekend even is one thing ... but we are a family and a vacation to me is for families. When they are older - maybe- if they go to camp or have something fun to do etc...
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