to miss being with children in the holidays

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I have a good job, which is a career I have worked many years to get on with and I work long hours, especially now as its year end

Easter has come at the wrong time and I can't take any time off, even working Good Friday and easter monday along with a lot of my colleagues.

Normally that wouldn't bother me but the weather is lovely and my DC are having so much fun with their dad, (my DH) and friends and I hear about it all 2nd hand. I wish I could be with them.

I guess this is my own making and I am being unreasonable as normally I love what I do, and its my choice (although I pay most of the bills so DH can be at home most of the time, but again that was a joint decsion) but this week I am feeling it a lot.

YANBU-you are doing what you have to do but who wouldn't be sad at missing out on the fun with the kids?

I sympathise,op.
To me it seems many of my dc's most fun times happen with someone else.
I would love not to work,or to work term time,but haven't got the option.

I gave up a great career for exactly this reason and I've just turned down a fantastic job offer because I couldn't negotiate term time only (or close to it).

Sometimes (when they're at school and I'm working) I'm a bit bored and in need of a bigger challenge but every six weeks or so it's the school holidays again and I'm reminded how precious this time is and how lucky I am. Realistically, with 2 children 2 years apart, there are only really 7 years(ish) of school holidays that they want to be with you. That's less than 100 of these precious weeks in a lifetime. I'm going to make the most of them.

So no, YANBU

Your doing a great job providing for the family and if your DH iS home with them they are lucky to have one parent who can share in their fun times. I find that the times I spend with my children are all the more precious and special because they are not the norm. I work and often miss out on fun days out but then I try to do something special at the weekends and evenings in the summer.