I'm a single mum and I've taken my teenage daughters on holiday twice this summer. A week at a hotel in Italy and a couple of days in a beautiful lodge by the beach, here in Scotland.
I'll be honest, some of it has been hard going. Squabbles between them, moaning, sleeping half the day. It's not like they had no input in the holidays, as I accommodated their ideas!
Although parts of it were really good, I did find myself questioning the whole holidays thing - with them - and wondering why I bother. They are currently 18 and 15.
Next summer, it's my dad's 70th birthday. He is very much adored by his kids and grandchildren. The plan is to take him to his favourite place abroad for a family holiday, which we've never done before.
My situation is that ex husband and I take it in turns to holiday with the girls. So it was my turn this summer, and next year he'll take them away. So a part of my reluctance to take the girls on dad's family celebration is financial. Doing it two years in a row is a lot.
And there's also the fact that I'm going to feel much more relaxed without them. There would be X to moan about, or X cousin to find annoying. I'd have the pressure of having to wake them up because everyone is going out for lunch. And because I'm the only single parent in the whole family, I wouldn't have the backing of a partner.
My siblings are going to make it their annual 2 week holiday with their husbands and children. Their own teenage kids have more of a 'get on with it' mentality than mine.
Would I be unreasonable to join my family for 5 nights, and leave my girls at home? They would be the only grandchildren not there 
I honestly just don't think I could face it.