It is that time of the year...
When we send the child off for holidays and sulk and sulk and whine and act like teenagers who have lost their marbles.
Yes! the kid is on annual holiday with both sets of grandparents, and an additional week with his aunt thrown in this year.
We do not seem to learn from out last years experience, surprisingly. We promise ourselves and each other that -"This is it- it is absolutely the last time we are sending him away", and promptly book his tickets and send him off.
I then make grand plans about what all we can get done, in the interval that the child is not there and i have lots of time to spare.
Lists made, plans worked out..
The only thing i have managed to do from that list is to move the microwave from point A- point B in kitchen. Apart from that, i have finished 4 books, vegetated on the couch for hours, and watched some utterly boring shows, including one where they showed how cutlery is made!
But then, i should not complain right? He is enjoying holidays with real people, spending time outdoors, than stay back here are spend it with the cartoon characters on TV.
And ze husband? Sulking more than me, missing the kid terribly and downright depressed. .
Sulking is my job- he is supposed to make me get out of that mode.
Obviously he missed reading the manual before marriage.
7 comments:
I often thought of how V was too busy to come to the phone/ and how gparents were watching Vs show... when i decided to take the plunge and send my firstborn to chennai this dec...
gparents have "the best month in the year" programme for kids.
haffun v.
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and there is no such manual.
Awwww...cheer up and go out on a date! Am glad your son is enjoying with his g'parents!
Awww, doing the right thing is so hard.
Weekend trip to Bangalore?
Hugs.
:) I second fun with family over watching tv all day. even if it means kid-sick parents. You're building him memories for a lifetime. hugs.
MinM: I am learning there is no manual! And g parents are having best month of year- 48 hours, no talk to mamma as of now!
Starry: He is enjoying. You think it might be part jealousy?? The husband is working like the world is going to end.
Nitya: That is very very tempting. Vishnu is there the first week of June. Let me go and think about it.
NM:Yeah. That is so right. Only-0 i have to keep telling myself that- we are doing the right thing, we are doing...
I have always wondered how you are able to stay so faraway:) and not qorry about him.
Ok I am not trying to make you worry now.....
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