Does SNT make anyone else feel like this?

[Butterfingers1977]

Evening everyone x am sitting here watching Saturday Night Takeaway with th DCs. We watch it regularly and it brings us lots of joy 😊 but this week, for some reason , I feel really sad and emotional. Simple reason being , as a working single parent I suspect I will never ever be able to take my children to an amazing disney/theme park / water holiday . Uou know , dream holiday type thing. Water parks , sunshine etc . I don't know if I will even be able to ever afford an all inclusive europe holiday. I just feel sad for them . It was my choice to finally leave an abusive marriage and I haven't regretted it for a minute - they are so lovely and they understand why we are likely to never be able to afford that . They know I work my day job and have 4 cash in hand cleaning jobs also so they would never dream of complaining but I do feel a bit of a failure. I know it's melancholy and usual I am a bit better and more upbeat but April us the month of price rises kicking in and after having done my monthly budget , I realise that it's going to be up to the wire again and I will never be able to do it. Anyway I suppose I was hoping someone could just tell.me to woman up , at least we have a roof over our heads and a stable job and lots of love ...you know , important things !!.

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I realise I come across whingy. Sorry . So it is also OK to not have any responses I think because think am just having a moment ;) lots of love to you all xx😀

Your children will absolutely not look back on their childhood and feel sad about this I promise you. I could never afford to take my children abroad and I felt so sad about it, but now they are older and I ask them about it they couldn't care less. They have fantastic memories of the cheap holidays to caravan parks and days out with a cheap packed lunch. You are sitting having a lovely evening with your children and enjoying their company. They will look back on this fondly. You are working hard and raising your kids with love, you are smashing it x

Plus, they have their whole lives ahead of them to go abroad and it will feel so much more special, they have so much to look forward to

I think kids enjoy the caravan in Wales type holiday just as much as the flash ones . They're more for the parents in some ways .

I remember chatting with a partner at work years ago who had late teenage/early twenties children. Bear in mind that partners at this firm took home around 400k a year at the time. He told me he'd taken his children all over the world on all sorts of different holidays and the one they still talked about the most fondly was camping in Wales. I really don't think children need fancy holidays to have fun and enjoy themselves.

Well I woke up to read these messages and from the bottom of my heart thank you all for taking the time to post xx I really really appreciate the very good points you all made x @floppybit thank you for the perspective I think that is what I needed and usually I can see it it's just sometimes you know 😊 @Soozikinzii I suspect you are very right there ! Comparison is the thief of joy of course x and @ASimpleLobsterHat that genuinely is very interesting- a rear view perspective....I am totally sure that my children won't the things for granted and last year when I managed a three day holiday to butlins they were absolutely beside themselves and when they actually got to meet Stephen Mulhern i thought they would explode 😀 so I suppose that is worth focusing on . Thank you everyone - I really needed this I appreciate it very much xx have a lovely Sunday all xxx

I'm so glad you're feeling better. Keep doing what you're doing, you're being a great mum. Enjoy your Sunday

It sounds like they had a great holiday last year! I think what my children enjoy most is the attention they get on holidays - everyone is together and there isn’t work to distract me and DH or jobs around the house etc. This can all be recreated at home if the budget doesn’t stretch to a holiday away from home this year.