How old and who babysits your kids for a week?
3.5 years old and 1 year old.
My MIL gives me a time period ahead of time of what time of the year works for her and she is kind enough to come for around a week (+ 2-3 days) with my housekeeper in the house.
I also take a day or 2 whenever we all go to Florida (to my in laws) and send my kids to a daycare (7am-5pm) in order to take a mini vacation and my in laws are happy to watch them for that.
Not everyone is in the same situation, but it is possible with the right planing.
Grandparents in YYZ (so would have to drop them off there first) are willing to do it when the kids are older, but not at this age.
This is -potentially- doable if you put them in a local daycare for the week where they are basically taken care of all day and it is a matter of waking up with them, dropping them off, playing a bit after daycare and putting them to bed.
If they don't want to do that, that is also perfectly acceptable. I just think that many out here don't fully look into options and possibilities. No one would ever do this for me if -for 1-2 weeks- I just left them at someones house with no game plan whatsoever.