Worst Parent of the Year Award
I'm sure my dh and I are going to be nomintated for the worst parent of the year award.
My parents are taking my kids on vacation this year. My dad is having a number of health problems and we aren't sure how many summers we have left with him, so it was really important to me that they go on vacation this summer. They are going away for 10 days to the Oregon coast.
While they are away...I'm going to DL with my DH....just to go to Cars Land. Yep, I said it...we are going without the kids. This is a top secret trip and we are also making a stop in Las Vegas and possibly the Grand Canyon. It is so top secret, that we won't take any photos, we won't share anything on Facebook, we won't record any moment we have there.
We thought about going with my parents, but we really want the girls to have some memories of a trip with my parents without us around. Some of my fondest memories with my grandparents were trips our outings without my parents and I thought that since they are really the only active grandparents in their lives, that this was realy important.
Instead of sitting at home waiting for their return and working a ton, we wanted to take a break and go on our own little adventure. We were just planning on going to Vegas, but the more we got to talking about it, we just couldn't resist. We plan to take the kids later in the year, during the slow season, when the lines won't be super long, like they are now, so they will go soon.
Ok, confession over...