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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because of a unexpected death in the family, I had to fly alone with our then-4, 2 and 8 month olds on an extremely long, two pronged, international flight. It was so miserable that I cannot so it adequate justice. It was, without question, the hardest 30ish hours of my life. My kids are actually normally pretty well behaved and they weren’t intentionally bad on the flights. But, 30 hours (with a 6 hour delay during the layover because of course there was)... is just a lot. 2 of them were in diapers. Only the 4 year old could remotely be left alone to change one of them. I am literally recoiling just thinking about it. I must have looked like I was trying my best (I was), because the other passengers were unexpectedly lovely. It actually gave me renewed faith in humanity. And they didn’t even know we were headed to a funeral (and because I was needed to help out), though I did explain it was an unexpected emergency.[/quote]

Bologna. You were so close to the deceased you were required to help, but it close enough that your husband would attend also?[/quote]

Not sure what exactly you’re asking? My DH did attend the funeral; the deceased was in his immediate family. He flew out earlier because he rushed to make it in time to say goodbye... although at the time we were hoping it wasn’t goodbye. (This was all totally out of nowhere; an accident resulting in a serious head injury.) We couldn’t all go on that little notice/the kids and I would probably not have gone right then if we’d been talking a long recovery rather than a funeral. DH’s whole family was a complete mess and I flew out to help with the deceased’s small children will his widow was handling all of the funeral arrangements and barely holding on. We all flew back together a few weeks later.[/quote]

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