I love the ones that have the day off, drop off in their sweat pants or pjs and won't even mention that they have the day off. Like maybe you should let me know so if something happened during the day, I wouldn't be calling your work trying to get a hold of you! This has happened several times!

I can see the odd time, taking a day for yourself, I have kids and can totally relate. But, I had a family a couple of years ago with 2 young boys. The parents would take a couple of weeks in the summer and 2 weeks at Christmas and not once did they keep them home or pick up early!
The dad would bribe them each day saying that he would have something special for them when they came home if they wouldn't whine about coming, when they knew mom and dad were home. This I totally did not understand.

I worked outside the home for a long time before starting home daycare and I would take every opportunity to spend my days off with my kids. Especially now that they are a lot older, I am so glad that I did spend the extra time and not once do I regret it. Time goes by so fast and before you know it, your kids are grown and you will miss all the chaos.