rant: At some point it's time to GROW UP!

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That sounds like something a child would enjoy
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No sitter necessary.

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Lisa

I shure would take my son to that lol he would have a blast smacking people with fake spells and dressing up
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Oh and I wasnt pointing any fingers people that ahve someone to watch there kids so they can have a break are lucky , I just dont think it should be something that people Expect others to do , if that makes any sense at all . I have the missfortune to not only be a single parent but to have a small uncopertave family, but it puts my life in perspective to me wich is always a good thing ,
With star trek out Ill be useing all my cards to see if I can get to go , I dont think it would be 4 year old freindly, so if I dobnt have a sitter ill just have to netflix it later.

Aw hun, I didn't think you were pointing fingers. I'm sorry you're family is uncooperative. (Hugs)
I was so worried I was one of those people though. I think I'm just really lucky to have family that loves my kids and wants to take them and asks to. I had kids really young, it certainly wasn't planned at the time so it was a huge fear to suddenly think I was acting horribly immature. I guess there is a difference.
I have had family members call and ask to take my kids to Disney World and turned them down because myself or my Dh couldn't go with them and we weren't going to let our kids out of the state without a parent. We are fortunate.
I also agree that the game thing sounds like something my kids would LOVE lol.
When my MIL takes them she has them for about 4 hours so I guess in the grand scheme of things if I were sending them off to school and not homeschooling I would actually have more alone time than I do now, but like you said, I signed on for this Mommy job and I want them to have the best I can give them.
 
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Yeah, but that is one day a week. For a few hours. NOT an ENTIRE weeknd. From Friday afternoon til Sunday Afternoon. To9 me that is a bit much.

We leave our dd with my mom or MIL for a afternoon to see a movie.
I sometimes leave her for a week with my mom, when I have to work. Or a weekend when I have an event to work that I know she will be bored at. But I would never consisntently depend on family to do this so that I could go and play. And I would NEVER ask a person that was a stranger to my child to take her overnight
 
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That sounds like something a child would enjoy
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No sitter necessary.

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Lisa

no one younger than 17 is allowed.
 
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Yeah, last night. My dh said he would have been ok with my telling her exactly what I think. Good thing I know I will get another chance.
 
Hey, I know someone like that!!!
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I seem to be the one everyone pawns their kids off on alot. Usually I don't mind. But lately it has gotten worse. FIrst off, I would NEVER send my kids to someones house for the day nevermind overnight to someones home that they have not been to in forever. That is just plain wrong to do to the kids. Seriously how would they like to sleep somewhere as a kid that is strange to them. Ugh. Once again, this is why I can't stand most people. I love the chicken people on this site, they seem to have brains in their heads unlike people I meet in the "real" world. I would send her the remark you want to send her. Why not...... SOmeday she will get it. But it could be too late.
 
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Sounds like a nice balance of priorities, we all need a couple of "adult hours" to stay sane, and a SANE Mommy= a GOOD Mommy!!
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Oh, and just the fact that you are concerned that you are "one of those people" means that you are NOT
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Rhett&SarahsMom; To ask to leave my kids OVERNIGHT, somewhere UNFAMILIAR to them is unthinkable, absolutely blows my mind!!!! You are virtual STRANGERS to these kids, doesn't that bother these people AT ALL??? I mean, are these kids so used to being pawned off on people that the parent feel they will be comfortable overnight in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people??
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Unthinkable!!

If they ask again or it comes up again, I think I would be unable to resist implying that in addition to having plans, I also have concerns that children are generally sad or afraid when left somewhere unfamiliar to them, so it probably wouldn't work out for THAT reason, also!!!!!!!!
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(PS: That's no reflection on you or your family, I'm sure you are very nice people, and OBVIOUSLY good parents, but you are UNFAMILIAR nice people to these kids..!!)
 
Wow, that is some gall to ask what amounts to perfect strangers to her kids to watch them overnight. Dh and I have 4 kids, my MIL watched them on Saturday because we had an awards banquet to attend. The time before that, that we went anywhere without the kids? Jan 14th!!
She is watching the kids (just the boys, the girls will be at school) on Mon because I need to be with Dh at his gastrointerologist appt (she offered, I didn't ask) and will probably watch them for an evening at the end of the month so Dh and I can go out for our anniversary. My mom likes to take the girls for a week in the summer - she is 6 hrs away and the girls are 10 and 6. But we still have the boys (ages 3 and 10 mths). My MIL generously offered to watch the boys overnight when we drive to drop the girls off with my parents. We are meeting them 1/2 way and dh and I are spending the night in a hotel (YEAH!). The last night we had without the kids was 3 yrs ago right after ds was born.....
Did I mention how much I love my IL's?
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Rhett&SarahsMom :

BTW.. the thing they are going to? It's a game. Where mom and dad dress up like "elves" and run around in the woods throwing little seed filled fabric packets at other people in costume while yelling "spells"

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