to be cross

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I'm going to family for half term. DH and I normally go together but he has to work so I'm going alone. I'll be driving c. 4.5hrs with 3 DCs (5, 2 & 3m).

DH and DF and DM have been whittling about the drive and now I find out DH had asked a (male) friend to do the drive with me and when that failed DF has booked a train to come all the way here in the am to drive my car all the way back again.

I love them so very much and I'm sure I'm a selfish ungrateful cow but I'm RAGING.

I just want to scream that I'm a grown up who travels the breadth of the country for work and I was looking forward to doing the bloody drive and above all I feel so restricted and infantalised.

aarrggghhhhhhh

They probably just want to help. I would want to help someone doing a long journey with such young children. I think it could be dangerous as well on motorways if distracted. I'd be bowled-over that people cared, though maybe there's more to this story.

I think it depends on how your dcs react to long car journeys. With mine, I'd have set out after their bedtime or very early in the morning and they'd have all slept the entire way - it wouldn't have even occurred to me that it was an issue. But then they were used to us holidaying in north Scotland so 10+ hours in the car.