This is good. So do I.
However, I ran into winglion where she works today (I buy my cat food and other pet supplies there more often than not), and she says it is up in the air whether they go or not.
The reasons are several (in both senses of the word), and the only thing she was sure of was that she was going to be putting in for that specific week off.
My question is, who's going to pay for it? If we truly want them there, somebody (or a lot of bodies) will have to.
I can't - though if my figures are correct, by the time NN14 rolls around, I will most likely be able to feed them for the duration - certainly for half of it. This seems reasonable to me - they fed me more than once at a time when I was stressed, financially and otherwise.
However, since I'm paying for myself and have a few other commitments with regard to the convention (not to mention my personal life), I can't do anything else for them.
I have not a clue as to what negotiations are already going on to make sure they can attend - I hope they are happening somewhere.
Nobody asked me to post this. Especially not the sisters in question. I just wanted to make sure the question was out there.