Perna thanks for responding. I have these concern that you pose in your reply....it is very cold and kids are more likely to become sick. And what about the trip?....me on a plane with two kids for 8 hours and then 4 hours on a bus because his mother doesn't live in the capital (Buenos Aires). I "feel" like it is very unfair to "give" all this to me. He can't travel because he can't take more then two weeks back to bac from his work and the price of the ticket is not worth it. But is not my "sanity" worth not going. His mother claims she can't come because she is too old(74)...but she doesn't have any serious medical disorder that would prohibit her making the trip. I get along pretty well with her but many a times I have not "voiced" thing to her or my husband in fear that I would be the "bad one, mean one, etc.". Perhaps afterall, spending the money if it is just for two weeks is worth the money if it means keeping my sanity and keeping myself from yet again wallowing in resentment.