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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]8 yo dd's drama class 'won an audition' to perform at Disney in Feb 2017.  It's a marketing ploy to get families to travel to Disney.  She really wants to go.  I don't feel I can manage the trip because 5 yo ds has a very strict schedule of naps, sleep, ketogenic diet, tube feeds to keep his epilepsy from relapsing (it was horrible), also 12 yo dd is in a different school with a different break.   The drama class is flying together for 4 days.  My parents offered to travel to Orlando, pick up dd and stay in hotel with her.  Now they are backing out because she has a peanut allergy and they don't feel comfortable taking care of her meals.  Honestly I don't want to send dh because I have trouble managing my SN ds alone for 4 days - his behavior is very difficult.  He has recovered his speech pretty well and he can walk and run, but falls down a lot.   I work FT and have a good nanny, but she leaves at 6 pm and whenever I'm home while she's there, it's tense, so I can't ask her to stay overnight.  WWYD?[/quote]

You have my sympathies b/c at least one of your kids have very complex health issues and there are posters who can be very mean here.  If your parents typically help you out, can only one of them go and the other one stay and help?   Does your nanny have kids?  If not, she may want the extra money and stay over night.  She may also know someone who can stay over night.  (When my MIL was in respite care all the aides knew one another.)

If you can afford the trip for your kid and one grandparent, and provided that your other kids wouldn't feel slighted. However, I would change drama classes that do stupid tie ins with Disney.  They probably get some financial incentive to do this which makes me think they're assh*les and not interested in teaching kids.  There are local "competitions" like the Folger theater etc.[/quote]

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