Originally Posted by
MeHandle 
My question: If you were married and you and your husband wanted to take a vacation without the kids would you get over your motherly guilty feelings? How important is your kids feeling about this in regards to your decision?
This bit really made me think!
My kids feelings are always very important to me, but they're getting older and they do their own thing a lot of the time, I accommodate that and I'm happy they're growing up to be independant.
We spend time together a lot and we do all kinds of things together.
But yet, we're all individuals and independant at times.
Maybe it's time for me to claim back some of my independance now that they're old enough. Maybe we'll even appreciate each other more because of it.
I'm taking the time off anyway with no guilty feelings (not going anywhere, I'll be home when the boys get home from school and they'll only be with their grandparents for a couple of hours when they're off school)