To be annoyed by mothers who make a big show of crying at the nursery but...

[Gateau]

Yes, they can't wait to tell anyone who will listen how they couldn't stop crying for the first few weeks of dropping off LO at nursery. And then, hey, before you know it, they're skipping off on a weekend away with DH - and LO is left high and dry at home with the grandparents. And there is not a word about it.

have only read op
but, like, what are you on about?

MI - you mean that your children sleep in the night.

I don't know anyone who cried and cried when their child started nursery. How strange.

I don't think that nights away with dh are essential

But it would be nice though [wistful]

MI are you having a week to yourself?

Would anyone lend me a DH to go away with and have wild loud sex with (and look afetr my DS while you're at it... or while we're at it)

oh and 15 months isn't an unreasonable age to not have left them on their own yet overnight even with grandparents.

I cried a lot before my first child started school - at almost anything. So did several of my friends. I cried when I first met his childminder when he was five months old, I cried when he left his childminder. Actually, to be completely honest, I cried when he was two days old, because he wasn't a day old anymore. It's all about the end of an era, change, your child growing up, etc etc.
I may have been completely bonkers about some of this at least, but I wasn't 'putting on a show'
The OP makes it sound as if her child's nursery is surrounded by a wailing wall of howling mothers every morning, all clutching Chloe overnight bags, and you know what, I think she's been rather economical with the truth.

have to say, MsD, i shall cry when DS leaves his nursery, and it won't be a show....he loves it so much there, and he learns new stuff there that always surprises us.
feel quite emotional now, actually...sniff

Idon't think nights away with husbands/partners are essential but I do think they're rather fantastic if you can get them.

And I don't need a hotel to have sex, we have plenty at home, but we don;t have much loud sex at home or room service or long lie ins or going off to exhibitions at the drop ofa hat etc etc

It's possible we will get a Night Way, since friend has offered to Inferiorette-sit. I shall report back on whether it was a festival of debauchery

Oh lovely MI, where will you go? Do start a thread for hotel drooling

I quite fancy Brighton. Will let you know!

Ohhhh, sex in hotels is always so good.

Weekend away with Dh in hotel:

Lunch on way to hotel

Sex when get to hotel

DH watchs sport on TV

I have bath and read

more sex

spend as long as I like getting ready for dinner

Drinks in bar

Lonnnng boozy dinner

usually sex when get back to room, but have occasionally indulged in too much food and wine so attempt is abandoned.

Sex in morning

breakfast in room

Bliss.

We would never have that much sex, even if at home on our own.

leaving your kids is great if you're lucky enough to have doting available Grandparents around (THANK GOD for them), but not necessary for them.

This has degenerated into one of thos silly arguments (see SAHM/WOHM threads) where whatever it is that you don't do must be really bad for kids.

I'm sure they'll all be just fine, regardless of whether their parents go away for sex fuelled weekends or not.

But I would recommend it.

Gateau - I assumed you had more than one child becasue, and I quote, you said :

"We don't want our DC to be away from us overnight."

!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought you meant Dear Children, seeeeee

yes dc normally used forplural
ds or dd for singular

Or LOs

What's LO's?
Little ogres or Loved Ones?
Know which it would be if I used that!

likin' little ogres
maybe little 'orribles

I think it's Little Ones.

I personally prefer LBs.

And anyway, if you only (!!!!!!!!!) have one child and he's only 15 months old, you don't deserve a night away yet!

It is about where they are leaving the kids, not the fact that they are leaving them!

remember boddlers?