Please chime in if you have any opinion: W wants to stay on vacation an extra week, despite the kids' school starting back tomorrow. Which of these options is better for the kids? Extra week of vacation? W would bring them back next Monday. I am fairly confident that she would, as the rental car is due back then (W is very worried about $), and it follows a race she was planning to run. My parents are able to fly them up here tomorrow night, so they would go to school on Tuesday. Then Daddy and they get to figure out what being a single-parent family feels like. Neither option, I think, is wildly crazy.