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Post by topcat on Jul 13, 2017 6:42:28 GMT
So come on - what's the plan? Are you already in no-school mayhem? We have a week to go. I've been working like a mad thing trying to clear August but I have am a whole project behind and have absolutely no plan on how I am going to manage the regular site visits/meetings I've been doing - could it be they will really melt away for a month as I'm pretending? We have birthdays coming up and our first official party for Brains (for those who remember where we were at the beginning of the year, a miracle, right?) BB has decided she doesn't like activity clubs and the cheap ones do seem to be happy to have excessive time on electronic devices so I haven't got many of them booked. In fact, she told me how much she was looking forward to feeling free (waving arms in air with wonderful childish exuberance) - doing what she felt like, having a lie in, seeing how the day goes...shame her brother is such a clock-watching, timetabled control freak.  |
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Post by gilreth on Jul 13, 2017 8:03:46 GMT
Afraid here Sqk is doing his normal 4 days (Mon-Thurs) with his childminder bar our holiday (first week) and Wed/Thurs before Bank Holiday. Normally I would be off a bit more but changing jobs meant I lost 8 days holiday for a period where I usually take 3 maximum so I am somewhat down for summer this year. We are lucky in that he likes his childminder and she copes with him although she does tend to plan stuff round his needs which is maybe not as fair on the other children. He and I have many plans for our Fridays - including swimming lessons when on. Plus caravan over the weekends and lots of fresh air.
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Post by damson on Jul 13, 2017 8:43:04 GMT
We planned summer holidays with military precision as our 2 were timetable types.
One week family holiday away. One week whole family at home. 2 weeks of child care - usually Supercamps. One week of DH in charge. One week with me in charge, usually staying at my mum's.
One year we ruthlessly booked a third Supercamp week and DH and I had leave together, no children. It was like a long breath out, but we paid for it royally, both in the wallet and the evenings with angry children.
Supercamps/ activity workshops were a mixed blessing. We had to use something, as we didn't have leave to cover the whole year's school holidays.
We did not have the option of leaving 2 large children at home alone, even when quite old.
Neither child really liked supercamps. Over the years, we tried all sorts of things, from tennis to art, to making a short film.
When they were about 9 or 10, I would send them one at a time to have a holiday with my mum.
When they were a bit older, we sent the pair to PGL for a week. We did forewarn the staff, but it was a bumpy week for them.
They were at their happiest at the seaside, digging in the sand. Such a shame we didn't have the money/ time/ mental health resources to do more of that.
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Post by damson on Jul 13, 2017 8:46:55 GMT
I forgot to say that the first week of the holidays was always at home.
Our kids were vile in that week, as they were dependent on the timetable provided by school and expected equal order at home.
They also had more of each others' company, and they were not used to that.
So more push and shove than usual.
Then it would calm down, and we'd go on holiday. Faced with a new place, they'd cease hostilities for a bit, and act like a team.
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Post by serrakunda on Jul 13, 2017 9:36:30 GMT
plans in place here. Fortunately I can now leave Simba to his own devices (literally the xbox!) for a few hours, working part time helps and I can wangle three weeks off work. so
week 1 - mix and match, I have one day off for his birthday, he will be on his own or playing out with mates for two day, he will come down to the offce to have lunch with me to check in and break the day u
week 2 - scout camp
week 3 and 4 me off work and we are going to Rhodes for a week
week 5 - me at work, him at tennis camp
end of week5 and week 6, trip to Cornwall and the three amigos will be reunited
Then a few days to get ready for school
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Post by moo on Jul 13, 2017 14:46:59 GMT
Coz of our triffic school problems we are already into day two of summer hols & loving it.... we have all three taken an almighty big breath out & finally totally relaxed  xxx
Hols are always fab here... strict routines & hay making, animal work & well planned activity days out..... bliss.... time to re-calibrate & regulate & ground ourselves.....
Highlight is visit at hols end by best friend & amigo, sadly too short a time boys claim xx
Dinosaur wrangling next Friday.... very eagerly awaited!
Xx moo xx
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Post by mudlark on Jul 13, 2017 19:03:39 GMT
I can't wait for school to end next Friday! We have a wall planer up with the six weeks for them to see what's happening. I have the first week on my own with the children, second week off to Cornwall for a week with Mr M. Back home again with lots of low key outings, time for play and lots of structure, Mr M is off again for the last week.
I love the summer holidays even if I am usually shattered by the end of it!
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Post by esty on Jul 13, 2017 21:47:42 GMT
Well ......I've excelled myself in planning so that we (I) survive the holidays! Week one - camping for two nights in the Lakes with two carers. Week Two - both children away, Big Fish in respite for four nights and Twisty Fish away with Aunty for the week (Aunty has started to see the real Fish and realising she needs to step up to the plate!), Week 3 TF and young male carer flying to Holland to stay in Youth Hostel for three nights then staying with long term carer who lives in Holland for three nights before meeting up with us in Norway. Weeks 4,5 and 6 Norway in the new van with three carers, then home for three days then back to school :-) Carers are made up off long tern friends or workers who have become friends. One of them used to work with me with CP kids when I was 18!!!!!! Little did I know he'd become my son's carer at 57!!!!
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Post by topcat on Jul 17, 2017 10:01:29 GMT
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Post by serrakunda on Jul 17, 2017 10:49:34 GMT
alcohol  ? !!!!
I start early. As soon as one school holiday is over I start on the next one. Book in the main holiday in the new year though and work round that. I'm lucky that I can manage to wangle three weeks off over the summer. |
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