to not have thought about this pre-conception?

[boschy]

DD1 will be 21 and DD2 and 18 in the same year (2017). I've always envisaged having a lovely party.

BUT.... I have just realised that before that we face an endless series of exams for the next 4 years!
DD1 GCSEs 2012 and 2013, Alevels 2015
DD2 GCSEs 2014 and 2015

omigod......... why didnt I realise??

[amillionyears]

Fraid so, been there.
Ruins May for several years.
Buuuuuuut, there is light at the end of the tunnel!

[mrsgboring]

I have a friend who spaced her children to avoid this. I am a bit that she cared THAT much but all power to her forward planning elbow.

[boschy]

21st and 18th birthdays I can cope with... but 4 years of exams www.mumsnet.com/te/5.gif ?! I will be at the bottom of a bottle of red wine for most of those years I think!

[boschy]

oops that shocked face didnt work...

[amillionyears]

mine was more than 4 years.Near the end, I was starting to dread it all, but didnt tell the kids that.

[pippop1]

I had 6 years of exams (GCSEs, AS, A Levels and then again) with my two who were 3 years apart. Ruins May/June but also August (waiting for results) for ages.

My brother and I are two school years apart and I remember the horrible time when he was taking O Levels (age 16) and I was doing A levels. I therefore actively planned to have them 3 years apart so that this wouldn't happen.

Then they introduced AS levels.

However would have been good for Uni (3 years and then 3 years) so not paying out for two at once but DS1 did a 4 year degree.

Shows how you can never get it quite right!

[Cadsuane]

Just realised i have exactly the same situation except in 2021 for the 18th and 21st.

[BellaOfTheBalls]

My sister & I are 3.5 years apart. I was 21 in the July; she was 18 in the December. My mum & I joked about had she known she probably wouldn't have gone for a 3 year age gap.

Fast-forward two seven years & no prizes for guessing what the age gap is between DS1 & DS2...

[BerryMojito]

Could be worse, they could be doing them in the same year so you get all of the histrionics at the same time!

[boschy]

oh no, I had forgotten AS levels!!! that'll be 2014 for DD1. anyone seen the corkscrew?

[Hopandaskip]

you all do 18 AND 21st birthdays?

[Annunziata]

YANBU.

I have six teenagers sitting exams this summer. The oldest still has another 3 years of uni, the youngest 4 years of school at least.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

My big sister and I had our 18th and 21st on the same day.
Was that bad family planning or what, parents??

(Ot was more years ago than I care to remember, parties were very low key)