To be pissed of at the timing

[sobeyondthehills]

We rarely have anything going on at Ds' school, next week we have an assembly, disco and parents evening, we were going to divide it between us, having moved further away.

DP's work have arranged a training session, this is important for him to be able to be promoted, it will also enable him to be able to move into different areas. Its for next fucking week, its a four day course, covering the whole of the stuff going on at DS' school.

While I get that he needs to go on this and it is important, we have been through a really stressful time and the plan was, when DS was at his disco, we would go out to a pub/coffee house whatever and just have some time for the two of us and that is now not going to happen.

I am so pissed off, I am just not sure who at. I can't begin to say how important this course is and how many doors it is going to open, but I am still pissed off

Totally reasonable to be pissed off - you can guarantee that when you plan something for you then life will find a way of getting in the way.
Go alone and treat yourself to the biggest slice of cake you can find and a crappy magazine - you deserve it

It'll be ok. Just enjoy it. It's a joint effort. You do DS he does his training.
It's all for the good of the family as a whole.

I get it. It can be stressful juggling school events and they do seem to time them as arkwardly as possible. Ours are particularly keen on doing assemblys at 10am and 1pm which means hanging around after drop off or a ridiculously early pick up.

Anyway, your dh hasn't done this on purpose. He's probably as fed up as you? Enjoy the time to yourself while the disco is on. Take a book or mumsnet while you have a coffee. As for parents evening, that's important, but you can drop the assembly. Your ds will understand not all parents can do all assemblys. I think we manage one per term if that.

Are there any friends whom you could go to the pub with during the disco - pop a note on your Facebook page. Even if you only live 15 minutes away that's still 30 minutes out of the disco time and many people would be happy to catch up on a chat than go back and forth.

Thank you all, I just needed to rant and its not fair to rant at DP, as he is not happy about it, although to be fair, he is very excited about being nominated for this course, its a great opportunity but why next fucking week.

shouldwestayorshouldwego

No, I have checked and most my friends work a 9-5 job and apparently leaving work early to go to the pub is frowned upon.

I will be fine, I was just looking forward to some us time, instead of some me time

That's life!

Use the school parents evening opportunity to network with the parents of your son's friends, and see if you can arrange a reciprocal sleepover later in the month so you & your DH get a child free night.