After
a bit more thought and a bit more consideration, I put an alternative plan to Philippa
and it was accepted without debate! We are now having our holiday the first
week of November. This means it won't clash with the busy half-term week at
work and also means we will be away to celebrate Rian's 2nd birthday. That will
annoy a few family members who would want to see him, and it means pulling Mathew
out of school and risking a wee fine, but his headteacher is quite
understanding and the family will just have to lump it. They can see him the
week we get back - it's not as if he's old enough to know the difference, and
anyway I think it's nice that birthdays stretch out instead of being a one-day
affair.
I put the form straight in to Gavin, and he signed it off without hesitation.
That probably wouldn't have happened if I'd tried for the last week of October,
and I made a point of making the point that I had deliberately changed our
plans to fit in with the work schedule. So we're sorted! Six nights away in a
rather nice family-friendly hotel on the South coast. That might not sound
overly exciting to some of you, but after a long Summer of working in the
holiday trade, mostly on a caravan site, the idea of a small building with only
a few select families in it is very appealing to me, I must say. We're very
close to a swimming pool, that also has a soft-play area, so that's a couple of
days entertainment sorted, and the hotel has a games room with lots of fun
things for the little ones.
We're also discussing a foreign trip in February,
but I'll leave that for now as it's purely hypothetical thus far...
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