Jeff -
this year Halloween falls on a Monday. We all know the kids don't do much in school that day. Perhaps your wife is willing to compromise and pull you kids out the FRiday before and the Tuesday after. They will only miss work on two days. You can leave on Thursday after school. Sounds like a winner to me...so much so that I am doing just that. DD is going to be in 6th grade next year and I don't want to pull her out for 5 days, so I am taking her out for three. We are leaving early Thursday (one day missed), Friday is an "in service day for the teachers so she missed nothing, Weekend, then Halloween is Monday and a half a day (not really a missed day), they are off the Tuesdayday after Halloween for All Saints, and we are coming home on Wednesday (third missed day). Ask her really nice.
