How annoyed would you be?

[AmbushedByCake]

Back in February, I was invited to an evening function due to happen in September. It was on a Friday in another city, so I would have to stay overnight. I don't work on a Friday. I asked DH to book the day off work so he could pick the children up from school, do dinner and bed. I discussed the function several times, saying how excited I was and booking a hotel. Well he never booked the time off and now he has a mandatory event on the same day, starting in the afternoon and finishing at midnight. We have no family nearby, and nobody to take the children from 3pm after school until 1am when he would get home. So now I have to cancel. How annoyed would you be?

I'd be livid

Tell him he needs to find and arrange a nanny to come and stay in the house for the night and look after the children. HE has to sort it though, not you

I don't think it's your job to sort but could you see if the kids could have a sleepover with friends from school? If he isn't going to sort it then there must be something you can do, friends from school, older kids of friends, ask DHs family anyway as a one off, paid sitter?Again for the record I don't think you should have to sort it but if he isn't then you aren't really left with many choices.

I would give him the choice - you either go to your event, and he sorts out childcare as he was supposed to do
or he pays for you to go on an all singing, all dancing spa weekend (substitute your preference of activity at leisure) in apology, while he looks after the kids.

Are there no school friends that they could go and stay with? I wouldn’t hesitate for a moment, if another mum asked me to help out of something like this

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