We've been invited to a wedding abroad. It will be half the cost if just dh and I go for the weekend and leave the dd's behind.
dd2 has never had a night away from home before, we've never had to go anywhere and leave her behind and there is nobody near to us that we could leave her with anyway, able bodied grandparents all live hundreds of miles away so not really able to drop by for a nights babysitting or kids go to them for the night. Dd1 is much older and has stayed away from home overnight many times friends sleepovers etc.
Fil has offered to take dd's to Euro disney for the weekend that we are at the wedding. I'm not sure if dd2 would cope with being away from us for the weekend, she's a bit clingy especially with me, plus father in laws wife,second marriage, can be very unrealistic in her expectiations of how small children should behave not having had any children of her own. Dd2 can be a bit outspoken when she wants to be, quite a stubborn little character.
On one hand the thought of dh and I having a weekend alone together for the first time in over 15 years really appeals, even though it will cost an arm and a leg to go but I'm worried that I'd spend the whole weekend worrying about how dd2 is behaving and whether or not fil and his wife are managing to keep up with dd's.
Dh seems to think that it would do dd2 the world of good to spend sometime without us.
What would you do?