Operation Homebody II
Apr. 5th, 2008 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheCurrently, we spend at least one weekend in six away from home visiting other people. That seems like a lot to me. We enjoy it, of course, but it still seems like a lot. I think we need to work on having more people come to us (but we already have lots of that too!) or possibly cutting down the overnight visits in our lives quite seriously.
I'm going to bear that in mind while making plans for the rest of the summer, I think, because my natural instinct is to have stuff happening constantly. I feel guilty otherwise. But it doesn't suit Rob to have that much going on and I'm not sure it suits the children. Come to that, I'm not even sure it suits me.
Part of it is balancing visiting we have to do (relations who want to see the children because they "never" get to see them, which "never" varies from "never" to "not as often as they'd like") with visiting we want to do (some of the same relations, friends). And it would help if we didn't get sick just before visits we want to do, either.
I have no idea what's "normal" in these circumstances. Rob and I live quite near his family, a long way from mine (2-3 hrs vs 6-12 hrs travelling) - how often is "normal"? I sense a poll coming on.
[Poll #1166320]
I'm going to bear that in mind while making plans for the rest of the summer, I think, because my natural instinct is to have stuff happening constantly. I feel guilty otherwise. But it doesn't suit Rob to have that much going on and I'm not sure it suits the children. Come to that, I'm not even sure it suits me.
Part of it is balancing visiting we have to do (relations who want to see the children because they "never" get to see them, which "never" varies from "never" to "not as often as they'd like") with visiting we want to do (some of the same relations, friends). And it would help if we didn't get sick just before visits we want to do, either.
I have no idea what's "normal" in these circumstances. Rob and I live quite near his family, a long way from mine (2-3 hrs vs 6-12 hrs travelling) - how often is "normal"? I sense a poll coming on.
[Poll #1166320]