easter plans ?

[tokenwoman]

well we've got DSD all easter weekend and I must say Im not looking forward to it at all, wont be able to plan anything, wont be able to be spontaneous, the house will be full of other peoples children for over night stays who never seem to be picked up at a reasonable time DP is incapable of making arrangements for pick up leaving it to the children to decide when, if, where and what so I wont see very much of him at all as he will be driving everyone around here there and everywhere and cooking for hours these perfect meals for princess and friends while forgetting we still need to shop, prepare, cook and eat too.
i will retreat to the bedroom with any number of bottles of wine and refuse to come out what are your plans

[lateatwork]

we have dss too. I plan on organising stuff for me and DD to do for two days, then letting DP, DSS and DD do stuff for two days on the premise it gives him 1-2-1 time with DSS and me time off. Works perfectly....

oh and cooking perfect meals?? um no way. we only get DSS for 3 weeks per year (plus weekends...) so its takeout all the way

[glasscompletelybroken]

We have yet to be informed what "our" plans are...

[mdoodledoo]

We've got our week planned in as Mum's going away on holiday - only one day is mine alone with DSC's as DP's got to work - I'm kind of looking forward to it and think we'll either catch the train into the nearest city to go to the new KrispeyKreme that's opened (fun train journey day trip with a v yummy interlude!) or go fruit picking. That said I'll be glad when they're picked up as I'm taking leave from work between the two BH weekends so I'll have a few days to myself too. Best of both!

[ivykaty44]

slow cooker curry/chilli/pot luck. Toast and chocolate spread by the gallon and airbeds gallore.

treat yourself to new nail polish and give them face packs that go rock hard like cement

[Namechangearamanama]

We have yet to be informed as well. I have my DD on BH friday and most of saturday, she is then going to her dads for the remainder of the weekend.
Dsd should be picked up by her mum on the Saturday night if it was a normal weekend but god only knows. These things have happened in the past because I've given the nudge to plan an dclarify it all, in the name of PROJECT DETACH I havent mentioned the need to plan... should be interesting!

[redfairy]

DSD and DD free Easter weekend. What a marvellous piece of planning! I hope you are all jealous...?

[theredhen]

5 children here for the next 7 days. Have got some time with DS and with DP without kids when they go back to Mum's, so I am not dreading it. We've got them towards the end of the Easter break too but I do have a break in between.

[Namechangearamanama]

I know redfairy! I don't think i remember what a child free bank holiday monday feels like! But like I say, it might not happen.

[Petal02]

Confession time: sometime last October, I looked at the calendar and realised Easter was scheduled to be an access weekend, so I booked DH and I a holiday, so we're away over Easter. I realised there was always the chance that a weekend would be swapped in the meantime, changing the pattern, but I didn't want to risk having DSS glued to the sofa 24/7 from Thurs-Mon (if access happens on a bank holiday, it extends to Monday 7pm), meaning we're practically housebound, and thus ruining the Easter break.

DH was perfectly happy with this.

However it turns out that DSS is going away with his mother over Easter, so we would have been spared. The following weekend is also a long one (Royal Wedding plus May Bank Holiday) however I've managed to negotiate a compromise - we're spliitting the weekend; DSS is with us Thurs night til 5pm Saturday, then the rest of the weekend is child-free. So that's worked out OK.

[tokenwoman]

id forgotten about the extra bank holiday for the wedding and may day the following week so I guess I'll just have my easter break a week later than usual, thanks petal for giving me a reason to cheer up a bit

[mdoodledoo]

I was told today that the plans have changed and the DSC's are going into childcare on the day I thought was my chance to have some 1-on-2 time with them - pisses me off that the plans are changed with out checking with me - but hey ho, hey ho, such is life

[BattenburgAnyone]

You are me tokenwoman.......and I feel your pain.

[tokenwoman]

well it wasnt so bad apart from the flu i came down with on friday am we got princess sometime friday afternoon with friend to stay overnight, 2 more joined on the sat and DP ferried all 4 of them around and paid for everything for all of them (cost him a small fortune) another friend stayed on sat night and we managed to get rid of everyone by sunday afternoon i spent all weekend out in the garden, spent time with my boys, pottered about did some retail therapy and tried to ignore the high pitched screaming and noise and mess and the fact that they were all still up and about until well gone 4am both nights and tried to ignore DP pacing up and down his life on hold while princess decided what the plans were and what his part in providing the parental support was going to be (quite funny to watch really)

but i do hate all of this step parenting malarky if he wasnt such a disney dad and princess wasn't such a spoilt brat I wonder if it would be any better

[BattenburgAnyone]

Christ is sounds tripe..... you did well to take time out for yourself, there!

[LittleWhiteHeart]

Oh how I love hanging by DP's mobile phone, awaiting a text from his ex telling us what fun we're aloud to have every other weekend ...

Bitter? Moi? Never!

[Petal02]

I got wise to this quite early on in my relationship with DH, because "access weekend drift" started to happen, eg Thur-Sun started to become Weds-Mon if we weren't careful. So I made a point of making plans for DH and I, on the nights before and after access weekends, thus rendering us "not free" if the ex wanted us to extend our already protracted weekends with SS. Remember: to 99% of the population, a weekend means Saturday and Sunday. Only on Planet Access can a weekend encompass five days ........

[Petal02]

Just realised there is another Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May - let's hope we all manage to get some quality time with our partners.

[ladydeedy]

if anyone wants to plan even further ahead, dont forget there is an extra bank holiday next year for the Queen's jubilee so we get both Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th June off!! (is start of half term for most schools I think...) Time to book something methinks....

[Petal02]

Blimey, thanks for the warning, I'll get myself down to Thomas Cook in my lunch hour !!!