Single mom travel, and overbearing grandparents...

I scheduled a hotel stay for a weekend in a city about six hours away, with lots of fun stuff to do with the girls.  I was one of six, and the first four of us were born one right after the other.  We never travelled, there were just too many of us to go anywhere.

I decided that I don't need to wait for any occasion (meeting Mr. Perfect, waiting for XH to have time to go with us, etc.) to be able to do anything with my kids, so that's why we're going on a little road trip.

My parents are freaking out because it's "so far away" and "what if something happens to me" and "why don't I take my sister" blah blah blah.  It makes me wish I had just gone and not even let them know - it was just a courtesy so that they don't find out from Facebook photos on my sisters' pages that we went so far away and flip out then.  I'm 30 fvcking years old and I've been a SP for two years, I think I can handle my kids anywhere we go.

Why don't I want to take anybody with me?  Frankly, I don't like having to deal with other people's schedules.  I know when my kids need to go nap, I know when we need to eat, etc. - I don't want to have some other adult around getting aggravated because we're not spending enough time at location X Y or Z.