Last night my oldest son had a sleepover at a friends house. They went to be fairly reasonable for sleepover time, 10pm, only my kid wakes up by 7am regardless of his bedtime, which means he is punchy and borderline crying most of the day today. This isn't the only thing that contributes to "Sleepover Fallout" though. His younger brother, my 5.5 year old, misses his big brother terribly when he spends the night at a friends house. To the point of crying and sobbing, and then over compensating when big brother returns the next morning. Trying to be all cool, so big brother won't ever again decide to stay the night away, only all he succeeds in doing is driving big brother nuts, and being mean to little brother. The youngest is upset that he's being ignored today so that the middle one can try to recover lost time, and is upset that they are both pretty much being mean to him.
All of this adds up to "Sleepover Fallout." And what that means is that while I LOVE a break from having 3, and I know he's off having fun and is safe and all of those wonderful happy things, I regret it all day the day next day.
Is it possible to get a break from the mundane schedule without disrupting that same mundane schedule?
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