Forthcoming holiday

[wirral]

This is a pretty pathetic question / moan really.

Daughter (8) and I are going on holiday ( Florida) next week for a fortnight.

For some reason I do feel really sorry for my ex. I would hate him to take her away to such a fab place without me. Am I mad?

Ex has her for the whole of this weekend. We leave Wed early morning. He has asked to have her for tea Tues evening. I said 'of course' and suggested that he pick her up from school and have her until 7.30pm. He says that he is working until 7pm and wont be able to pick her up until at least 7.30pm. This will means she has a late night when I wanted her to be settled down early.

I am a bit (VERY) irritated as he has known about the holiday for ages and could have taken leave or swapped his shift.

Another concern is I feel daughter may be upset at saying goodbye to her Dad.

I will probably agree to the meal but does anyone have any thoughts on the above? As I say this is all fairly petty.

Aye. I know. I just can't help being irritated. Keep telling myself 'just get over it woman'. Suspect it's just pre holiday jitters

Thank

Being up late might work in your favour actually. You've got a 6 hours time change ahead, where you want her to sleep later and stay up later, so one day head start on this isn't so bad really. Plus she'll be excited and unlikely to be asleep by the usual time anyhow.

If she's exhausted by the time you get to Florida you'll all just be ready to go straight to sleep and be ready to start your holiday bright and early the next morning. It will still be early regardless of the time change!

DOn't worry about her dad missing out, that's part and parcel of seperated family life. Get her to send her dad a postcard or two, take photos to show him, and the hotel might have web access so she could drop him an email too perhaps. If you're doing Disney then the Buzz Lightyear ride might let you email a picture of you on the ride, the one in California does!

Your ex will no doubt take her on holiday somewhere himself at some point and they'll have lots of fun then too. So don't feel guilty.

Have a great time
Gilly