The scenario is:
An old friend of DH's lives in LA and is getting married out there this year - he has just confirmed the date of the wedding for late in July (which is about 4 months earlier than he had told us previously). We have 2 DDs aged 2.9 and 3mo. By the time of the wedding, DD1 will be 3.1 and DD2 will be 7mo. Originally when we thought the wedding would be in October we were planning on leaving the kids with my parents so we could go there without them for 5 days or so and have a great fun break together - have a bit of a blow-out. However, DD2 will only be 7mo in July and I am a bit anxious about leaving her for such a long time. DD1 is very used to staying with the gps on her own so I am not too concerned about her. There is also the question of the cost which is pretty significant! We're just trying to work out if we can / should try to go to this wedding. I think our options are:
- Leave the DDs with the gps and go just the two of us
- Leave DD1 with the gps and take DD2 with us
- Take both the DDs with us and turn it into a bigger / longer holiday in the US (although the thought of the long flight with them is not AT ALL tempting and the timing is not ideal for DH to take a big block of holiday from work)
- DH to go on his own (which will drive me mad with envy and which won't be as much fun for him)
- Don't go at all
Any ideas? I think I know that we have to do option 5 but I am so so keen to get away. WWYD?