Randi back when I was teaching, we always spent Labor Day together at our shore place...the whole extended family also...cousins, aunts uncles...and my sister ( also a teacher) and I would start our end of summer mourning the Sat of Labor Day weekend.
We got absolutely NO sympathy and dragged and dumped into the ocean by our non-sympathetic cousins and hubs on more than one occassion.
I DO feel sorry for you though. But just think...rest of April, May and part of June and it's FREEDOM again!