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[quote=Anonymous]My brother’s family and the ceremony are about an hour and half away from where we live.  I have two kids, my younger one is only 5 and the one making me debate whether to go or not.  DH will be out of town, so I’ll be on my own.  We’d have to leave our place by 3 pm to make the 5 pm ceremony, and I’m guesstimating with a 1.5 hour ceremony, we’d be home around 9 pm.

I took both kids to the same nephew’s play a few weeks ago.  It was a similar day (12-7 pm), and while it was more doable due to being earlier in the day, my 5 yo got cranky/wired, fell asleep in the car, then I had to wrangle a cranky half-asleep kid through bedtime routine.

This time is harder because it’s later in the day; I know both kids will pass out in the car and be really tired the next morning and they both have camp.  My older kid is attending half-day camp that starts at 8:30 am through the school district and absences/tardiness are not okay without a compelling reason.  If DH were in town, I’d let my 5 yo sleep in and go to his camp late, but because DH won’t be here, my 5 yo will have to wake up on time and come with me to drop off my 9 yo.

Sorry if too many details.  I am trying to get a babysitter for the 5 yo, but with only one week’s notice on the time of the ceremony (I’ve been asking my brother for details since April), our usual sitter is unavailable & I probably won’t be able to find one.  Assuming I can’t find a sitter, I’m debating whether I should 1) schlep all of us to the ceremony and just deal with all of the fatigue, cranky kids, and stress on my own because this is my kids’ one and only cousin and my brother is a good guy, or 2) have only my 9 yo go with my parents while I stay home with my 5 yo.  And then there’s a part of me that says waaaiiittt this is not even high school, back in the day, we didn’t have graduation ceremonies for junior high, so do we even need to go??[/quote]

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