DH has to go away a lot with work. I'm only talking 2-3 days at a time, about a 3 hour train journey from home but its every other week. We have 3 DC who are 5, 3 and 6 months.
He had to leave at 5.30 this morning for a 2 day conference, staying overnight and coming back late tomorrow night, and typically, all 3 kids were really sick last night. I got up with all 3 of them multiple times so that he could get a night's sleep before having to get up early this morning. Today has been pretty tough with all of them still poorly and the older 2 constantly fighting, we're all exhausted and I think I'm coming down with what they have 😩
Anyway, spoke to DH on the phone at lunch time and he basically said that this 2 day conference hasn't gone ahead but that a few people were going for dinner tonight on some networking thing. It's not compulsory, it's just for the departments to "mingle". Anyway, I asked if he was going to come home this afternoon, since the conference isn't going ahead and he said he'd planned on staying overnight as the hotel was booked and paid for (by work). I think I sounded a bit crestfallen at this and said the kids were poorly and I could do with a bit of back up. I didn't tell him that i thought he should home or ask him to come home in so many words but that was the general gist. Initially he seemed to make a few excuses about why he needed to stay and ended it by saying he would "see how it goes".
So apparently, he's on his way back now and I've started to feel a bit guilty for making him come back; I would give anything for a paid-for night in a hotel/drinks and dinner. He's really shattered from travelling early this morning and now he's having to travel back tonight. I feel like I've been really selfish!