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[quote=Anonymous]This is OP, thanks everyone for the responses & the reality/sanity check.  Well, my brother texted everyone yesterday saying oops ceremony starts at 6, not 5, which clinched my decision not to go.  Even if I could find a sitter for my 5yo, returning home at 10 pm is really late for my 9 yo (and myself!!), and if my brother can’t understand why I wouldn’t want to drive home that late, well that’s on him.  As suggested by some PPs, I suggested we get together a different time to celebrate.

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I really appreciate the sanity check because my own kids are younger & haven’t had any “graduations” yet and my brother made a huuuuuge deal out of this ceremony.  Some extended family members such as my parents were talking about summer plans, maybe traveling in early June, and the way my brother responded, it was clear that he expected everyone to put off their travel plans for this promotion ceremony…. So I internalized that, felt really guilty about not going, was going to ask around my mom friends for a sitter referral, while ignoring the little voice in my head saying this is not worth all of the hoop-jumping…

But I also will say to those of you asking if my brother has come to any of my kids’ events, no, he hasn’t because I haven’t invited him to any, and my threshold to invite him is pretty high because of the driving distance, but… he is the kind of person who would try to make whatever events I invited him to because he really is that generous and big-hearted (which stokes my guilt).

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