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I wish I could say that Grandma was watching my kids! My husband and I are pretty much on our own...so he's got to stay here with the kids for the weekend while I'm off partying. I'm envious of anyone lucky enough to have family willing to babysit. It would be nice to have a weekend away from my 3 kids with my husband....maybe...hopefully...sometime in the future. I will miss my kids insanely considering I have never been away from them for longer than 3 hours. I'm so accustomed to being mommy full time that I have forgotten what "Partying Kayla" was like. Guess I soon find out!
ummm yeah - 13, years, 8 years and 15 months - the older two with my mom - and the baby with his mom - I will miss them but I am looking forward to 5 days with my hubby with no one calling me mommy!
Post by oysterheadhead on Jun 11, 2006 3:38:51 GMT -5
This will be my kid-free vacation too!! ((boy-10, girl-6) They finish school on Wednesday and we are taking them STRAIGHT TO GRANDMA'S HOUSE!!! LOL!! LMAO!!! Then it's Roo time where no one will call me "Daddy" (except for my wife, when its called for... he he he)
This is YOUR roo! Get off the sopabox and enjoy yourself d amm it!!
Ya know - I think we all do plan on enjoying ourselves - do you have kids? are you leaving them for a week? some of us will miss the kids - we will be having a great time but I know there are things that my 13 year old would love about Bonnaroo so I will think of her often I am sure.
If you don't have something positve to contribute - back off. I am sorry if I am taking you wrong - but your last post just seemed negative regarding this thread.
yup, my two boys, Cameron (8) and Taylor (6), have stayed at Grandma's house for a week in mid-june every year for the last 4 years. This is year 5. My mother has a pool and a big backyard with a big house, and they look forward to it every year. My wife and I actually debated taking them with us to Bonnaroo this year, but decided against it. I took them to see Trey Anastasio for the first time back in October and they absolutely LOVED it, and Oysterhead is their favorite band!! But, when all was said and done, Roo is just not an environment for kids, even in an RV in VIP. Maybe in 2010 :-)
Oh, and to the guy who said we won't miss our kids, puh-lease!!! I'll miss my kids every second I am there. That doesn't mean I won't relish the time away, but I'll be calling every day to check in, that's for sure.
46 year old father of 5, looking very much forward to some me and the lady I fell in love with time, tyvm
Love my kids, do not need to be with them 24/7/365, do not miss them when I'm not, and it makes no sense to me to go to Bonnaroo and miss the kids. This is for me and the lady I fell in love with, the kids will be fine at Grannies and will not miss us either.
I guess we all just have healthy sense of self or something, and as far as having something to contirbute, what did your shot at me contribute?
ummm yeah - 13, years, 8 years and 15 months - the older two with my mom - and the baby with his mom - I will miss them but I am looking forward to 5 days with my hubby with no one calling me mommy!
My older son(Jacob who's 8)will be staying at Grandma's and my younger son(Nevin who's 4) will be staying with their dad...gotta keep them seperated!!! lol
Post by wbennettjr on Jun 12, 2006 10:11:55 GMT -5
lol at a fellow parent referring to my kids as 'problem', that was funny, really it was...ok I started this so I get what I get, but it really is no more complicated than I said. This whole 'light and my life' thing, well, no. My kids are not my light and my life. We are all fellow travellers on this planet, I have simply been assigned the task of caring for them until they can care for themselves, and teaching them what little I know about stuff along the way.
Other than bringing home my pay and watching it disappear, I do not live through nor for my kids. I am, selfishly or not, more interested in my journey than I am in theirs. Let them be the ones who are most interested in their journey. If you think I am going to Bonnaroo to swap pics and talk about the select choir or honor roll...so that's where I come from. This is my and my wife;s chance to do our own thing, something that is much, much too rare these past 16 years. We will both spend every available moment enjoying ourselves, guilt-free and quite oblivious to what is going on 'back home.'
you know, it's ok to feel that way. I personally think that's a very awkward way of approaching parenthood, but as you said, to each their own on this. Where my problem lies is in the fact that you sit here and act like everyone should feel the same way as you. Don't act like just b/c you won't miss your kids, that no one else should be able to miss theirs.
Post by wbennettjr on Jun 12, 2006 13:38:14 GMT -5
Well as I pointed out to you in another thread, GOUGEaway, you m'lady are anal. You are taking stuff much too seriously and commenting on stuff that doesn't even concern you, but really I'm ok with that...and just because I tease somebody for posting kid pics doesn't mean I think everybody should see things the way I do...dammm, how many posts in inforoo and in the message-board world are from people with different opinions? Do you think we should always post "by the way, this is just my opinion, feel free to disagree"? Wouldn't that get oh I don't know boring before very long?
So I spiced up the thread with my own juice, so what? If you want to juice me back that's cool, I asked for it so to speak, but really, my main point was, it's ok not to live for your kids (just do the job the best you can, right?) and it's really really ok to get away from them now and then and not feel guilty about it, it's a way of recharging the batteries and keeping balance and sanity in one's life.
How about, 51 weeks out of the year my kids can get to me within 10 seconds if they want to, 1 week of the year they have to go find grannie instead.
I'd say that's a pretty good deal for them, so I do not think twice about it. I don't know what exactly you find awkward about it...I find that whole 'light and my life' thing either a bizarre exaggeration or an extremely um I don't know tight focus, and I know for sure it would drive me 'round the bend. If I am not comfy and happy in my own skin with my own growth and the quality of my own journey through the cosmos, I am of no use to anybody else, least of all my kids.
ummm yeah - 13, years, 8 years and 15 months - the older two with my mom - and the baby with his mom - I will miss them but I am looking forward to 5 days with my hubby with no one calling me mommy!
Mommy? Is that you?
LMAO - funny funny - now I can just see getting to the inforoo meet up - someone will meet me and call me Mommy....LOL
Same boat here, only we are actually going to be free to do as we please this year.
My daughter 11, will be with Grandma, and my son 13yo will be at home. We have never gotten to enjoy bonnaroo freely without kid worry, we will this year though!!!!
WE, after 14 years of marriage, are finally getting to spend some time together and do things together without the kids.
Of course I miss them dearly, but it will not affect our good time!!!
I can't wait to be kidless for 4 days, and I can't wait to see them after 4 days!!! At least me daughter anyway, I will see my son, some this weekend. (We don;t camp, we just come home to sleep and ;D ;Dshower ;D ;D no roo funk for me!!!
