Less than 3 working days remain until I get to spend NINE uninterrupted days with my children. I can’t begin to describe how excited I am…how excited we all are.
Vman has started each day by asking me how many days are left until we get to hang out “just us”.
Pdot always answers him.
I just smile 
We’ve got things planned – a small road trip, some day trips/activities, time with friends and just staying home and hanging out together.
I am taking some of my 10 annual vacation days to spend the week with my children. I have been looking forward to it since I booked the days in April. Immediately following our week+ together, they will spend 3 weeks in day camp and a final week with their (awesome!) grandfather (dad’s dad) before heading back to school. Our caregiver is due to give birth to her second child on August 16th and rather than scramble when we get the call, I decided to cover the basis throughout the month of August and into the first 2 weeks of September – just in case.
Okay…now for the rant portion of this post.
I get 10 vacation days per year. That’s it. 10. I have chosen (and yes I know it is a choice) to spend those days with my children. The Ex gets 25 vacation days per year. That’s 5 work weeks. And actually, I think he might be up to 30 days but I am not sure. He has taken/will take a week off during each month of the summer: June, July and August. He has not spent more than 30 extra minutes with his children in that time and though I have given him ample opportunity to so and have made many suggestions (including flipping our weekends around so he won’t have to go so long without a sleepover weekend) he has (mostly) politely refused. I am completely dumfounded by this. I recognize that it is a choice but how can he make the choice not to take advantage of an opportunity to be with them and then turn around and tell me (and them…ad nauseum) how much he misses them? It simply doesn’t make sense…and they’re getting wise to it.
But I digress.
Men and women are wired differently.
And I am about to spend NINE uninterrupted days with the best little people I know Lucky, lucky me!
