@snoozn – have fun on your cruise! Two weeks is a long cruise. How nice for you and your father to have this time.
@snoozn --Have a fantastic trip sounds like some great family time…enjoy!!
I think we could all use a vacation 
@sdl0625 I agree with you about the transfer, these kids are making decisions based on visiting a school for a few hours. Some are bound to make a decision that ends up to be the wrong one for them. I have told my DS to do look at all of his choices and do what feels right. If it ends up to be not to be the right fit there are options. Of course finacially it could be hard and should be fully thought out but I would hate for my child to be unhappy.
Busy time of the year for me with work travel so I’ve missed a TON of congratulations but huge congrats to all with good news this past week and hugs for those waiting with stressed out kiddos. It is a roller coaster ride to be sure.
Ah, a 2 week cruise. That sounds heavenly right now @snoozn!
I did buy Disney park tickets for part of S17’s grad trip yesterday, they announced price increase was happening today so jumped on 2 of teh 4 tickets yesterday. 8% increase overnight, ouch!
@snoozn Have an awesome trip! We will miss you!
QOYD: It would be either this Friday (UT results) or wait until March (GTech). Six of eight acceptances so far and 2 to go.
@snoozn have fun on your cruise! I’m leaving in a few days for a 12 day ski trip, yay!
@RightCoaster Awwww man, I’m jealous!!
Not meaning to be nosy but when when any of you go away (love the cruises, ski trips etc. but know it can be work sometimes too) and the kids still have school - do they stay with relatives or friends or manage on their own?
@CA1543 When H and I were away for a week last fall (25th anniversary), D stayed with my sister’s family across town.
(Both of us moved here, on purpose, when our kids were small, so that the kids would know our parents. I’m glad we were able to make the move because we lost our parents way too soon.)
@CA1543 we are lucky, my mother-in-law is just about a mile away and is able to watch the kids when we travel. However the last couple times she has not actually stayed in the house as my kids go to the same school, same swim team same everything and the older one drives.
@CA1543 I usually travel with the kids. They have Feb break starting next Wed. I’m leaving a few days early and my wife and kids will meet me up at our house.
My ski trips are easy. I own a house in the mountains and go up frequently. Sometimes when the kids have things going on and need to stay home, they usually stay home with my wife. I try to bring a few friends up to the house when I go, or I meet up with some friends I know up there. I need to get outside in the winter or else I’d go crazy, so my wife is great about it and lets me go most of the time I give her plenty of free time to enjoy herself too. 2 way street. I’d rather the family come with me, it’s more fun and I love watching the kids on the mountain. They are fast, fluid, daring and creative.
We also let the kids bring some friends along when we go up and we also invite our relatives. Not all the time though, sometimes it is just good to get out of town and get some r & r.
My parents and sister help as needed when we travel without the kids
When we travel without the kids, which is rare, they stay with family friends who live in our neighborhood. They are also the parents of D’s best friend, so she’s always happy to stay over there.
We live ~3,750 road miles from our nearest family, so when we travel, we travel with the kids. We just recently realized, though, that D17 is old enough to drive her sisters around to anything they need to go to, though, so we’re taking the opportunity to head off, just the two of us, the upcoming 3-day weekend—it’ll be our first proper vacation with just the two of us since a similar 3-day weekend 6 years ago when my wife’s parents came up to visit for a couple weeks.
Thanks for all the info about how you all travel without the kids! We have only done it once or twice and relied on friends/relatives (inlaws). They could manage now but I think I’d feel a bit guilty leaving them.
@snozzn Have a great trip. We will miss you.
My D just came back from Caribean. He didn’t take me it was a work thing, and I’ve been working 10 hour days for the past 3 weeks. Ugg… I could use that break. Although I have no interest in cruises. But laying out by the beach for a week would have been nice.
As for the questions @CA1523 asked… My husband & I will be going away for a long weekend over April 1st. And leaving my two alone. But my other one is 22. They both drive. My S17 will be 18 by then.
Honestly it’s the first time we will leave my S17 home without one of us but that not by design, just hasn’t happened. I wouldn’t have done it before last year. (I considered it at one time last spring.) But it’s only going to be a long weekend, S17 gets himself out the door in the AM by himself. They will just have to scrounge for their own food.
We don’t have any local relatives, and S17 spends a large part of the summer away at camp. So mostly we have gone away without him while he was either at camp or visiting my parents.
Last year we left D17 alone while we took D15 back to school several hundred miles away. We were away for 5-6 days, texted and called daily, and it was fine. Her school was already in session and all family is out of town, but she had the phone numbers of nearby friends to use. She got a little lonely but otherwise, it worked out fine.
I was thinking today about the small town we lived in until recently, and the small city we live in now. I’d wager that over 90 percent of the small-town students apply to one school. Even in our current home, our GC told me that over half of a school of 2100 apply to only one school, since we have a state school, a private school, and a CC all right here.
What would it feel like to apply with no fear of rejection and be one and done?
Have a great trip @snoozn. It’s great that you are taking a trip with your dad.
We have left S17 alone for long weekends with word out to neighbors that we were gone. When we went on a two week trip to Iceland last year, he went and stayed with friends. That was his choice because it was too long for him to be comfortable alone for that long (and too long for him to be responsible for the animals!!). I was very happy he was not alone.
@snoozn and @RightCoaster Enjoy your vacations!
Our closest relative is over 1,000 miles away. On the rare occasion that we’ve gotten away for an overnight or weekend, we rely on the kindness of friends, and reciprocate when asked.