To ask how often do you “get away”? And with or without DC?

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So today I booked a 5 day city break abroad in April (just me and DH without DC)! We also a have a night away early March...just the two of us to a restaurant we having been dying to go to (in another city so we’re staying over)? We will go on a staycation this year (camping/B&b style) for 10ish days with DC. I also have a spa weekend booked in June (with girlfriends) and a weekend away including concert with other girlfriends in July? Normal or not normal?? I literally had to sort something for each booking today so my mind is taken over with “weekends away” etc so thought I’d ask?
Aibu to have so much booked in February?
How often do you “get away”?

I would say that's a lot for the average person

Also No I never wanted to Holiday without DC.

We usually do a week early in the year, sometimes it’s just me and the kids (we go to visit family abroad) and sometimes husband comes too (I get more leave than him so it depends what he has on) and we make sure we get at least a week away altogether. Sometimes UK, sometimes abroad depending on what money we have and what’s available.

I usually go to a festival with my mates, the kids and I go to a kids festival with my mate and her family and every two years my mates and I go away. Husband goes on the odd weekend with mates (usually stags but I think they might all be married now) and there’s usually a weekend away with the sport he plays.

We try and get a couple of weekends away together each year too (usually one for my birthday and one for his).

We’re pretty lucky in that we have excellent family childcare, we are both supportive of the other going away and I have a knack for sniffing out really good deals.

Never. Definitely not a night away. Our children are always always always there and talking from the second they wake up to the second they go to sleep.

We usually have a week away in August as a family, and a long weekend/mini break at Easter, as a family. The dc are 7 and 10, we have no one else to look after them. DH occassionally has a couple of nights away for work, of which I am usually massively envious!

I wouldn't want a holiday without my daughter. I had her reasonably late and had done a fair amount of adult travel before she arrived. Plus I work full time and want to spend my holiday time with her.

I wouldn't mind the odd evening out but despite being close by (on one side anyway) and in reasonable health, there have been no grandparent offers so far.

In terms of family holidays, this school year we had just over a week in Orlando in October, and will probably have a week in Europe. In the summer and a long weekend at a relative's place in France.

We are lucky that we go away a lot - holidays abroad, short breaks, camping trips - but always with DC.

We just don't have any overnight childcare without it being a 6-hour round trip for someone so even when we do see family it is to spend time with them and not for them to babysit.

In 12 years DH and I have had two nights away together. We also use all our annual leave for school holidays so don't have time off left to do girls/boys/friends holidays even if we wanted to.

As a PP said, in a few years time DC will be grown up and DH and I will go back to having time away just the two of us. Until then it's all together or nothing!

It's not an issue. Occasionally it would be nice to have the option to get away as a couple but it's just how it is.

We have an adult night out every 6 weeks or so,ds stays at grandparents so we get a childfree morning too.We are going away for one night for our anniversary in July

Been away once without dc, in 2010. With dc about once every 4 to 5 years.

Last holiday was Oct 2015 before I had my ds. We haven't had anything since then. We don't even get date nights more than ince a year becasue we use all our family childcare favours for working. Me and dp are like ships that pass in the night with our shifts and unless I'm at work I'm with my ds. I'm looking forward to September when he goes to preschool and we will get a few hours during the days if we are off work to have to ourselves.

Personally I prefer to go away on my own, no DH or DS , I usually have a few separate nights away with friends, & DH also goes away with friends. Works for us & means one of us was always home to provide childcare. But we also had the odd night together away when DS was younger, helps that we only have one child so could usually arrant a sleepover with a friend (& of course I always reciprocated & had my friend’s children to stay before anyone accuses me of being a CF).

One family holiday abroad for 2.5 weeks with dc - Canada this year.
Weekend with friends
Weekend away with dc

We used to have a couple of weekends away without dc when they were little but they're all in juniors and sleeping well so we get evenings together and need childcare for school holidays.

@Ragwort yes!! 😂 I went to visit a cousin on the other side of the world for two weeks a few years ago!! No DH OR DC! It was bloody wonderful!!

We go away a lot but enjoy going with the children as we enjoy spending time together. A 5 day city break without children wouldn't be my scene at all. But as so many others have said - each to their own