I actually am starting to get caught up. Who knew?
It sure has been hot here lately. At first I welcomed it, embraced it, got all goopy messy hot in it, and now I hate it.
Sorry, all I got from that is you're hot.
Disney in August is a sweat bath. From the second you walk outside all you do is melt. There is nothing I love more than being around a million people who are all sweating and rubbing into one another.
Was Caligula a Disney movie?
No?
Huh.
Disney has us right in their back pockets.
But they are making "Honey, I shrunk the monymonys"
Those that know me know that I have been working hard to get through school. In December I will be walking across the stage to receive my BA from the College of Education at WSU: Special Education/CI K-12 and Elementary Education K-8. Sounds good don’t it? Can’t wait!
Congrats! Premature, but who cares? Well deserved.
Matt is 15, Zack is turning 14 while in Disney, Mal turns 8 after we get back at the end of August, and Maddy turns 5 while we are in Disney. Yes, November was a busy month for us.
Could you please explain in detail exactly why it was busy?
And my oldest shares the same birthday with the ever so popular and famous Nebo. If the Disney gods will have it, we are vacationing at Disney at the same time and could possibly cross paths. When I asked about this on his current trip report,
the best trip report on the dis! I was a kid in a candy store!
You're expecting a snarky comment here, aren't you?
Well you're not going to get it. His TR
is the best on the Dis and I'm envious that you'll get to meet them.
Tim and I found some great ways to cut corners so for the first time we are staying off site, we rented a house, purchased our tickets through
undercover tourist, and Tim is using points he’s earned to stay places with little to no money out of pocket. That’s more Mickey bars for us!
I read your and others posts re: getting flack for staying offsite. You'll notice in my siggie that we stayed offsite the first few times and won't "ever again". But I don't get why people would get worked up about others' choices.
Who cares what someone else is doing. If you want my advice, I'll give it. But if you're happy with what you're doing, (whatever that might be) then I'm happy for you.
Bottom line is, whatever gets you where you want to go is just fine by me.
Who’s Tim? My husband, cancer survivor (2008 sucked) and Nebo’s long lost twin.
Congrats to your husband on beating it!
We are also driving and chose to take a different route that takes us through states we’ve never traveled and along the coast. The parents are excited about this and hope it keeps us more awake; although we do have planned stops along the way.
The road less traveled. Nice.
Hold it, 7? Say what? 4 children plus 2 adults is 6! I’ll wait for you to do the math……………………….. (she’s graduating from college, hmmmmm???)
Let’s assign the number of children (4) to the value ‘x’. Let’s also assign the number of adults (2) the value ‘b’.
So 1/2 of x = 2. Let’s call 1/2x ‘a’
So, a=b (2 = 2 right?)
Multiply both sides by a
aa = ab
Subtract b squared
aa – bb = ab – bb
Factor both sides
(a-b)(a+b) = b(a-b)
Divide out (a-b)
a + b = b
Since a = b we can re-write the equation as:
b + b = b or 2+2 = 2 or 4 = 2
So since the number of adults is either 4 or 2 we’ll take the average, which is 3. 4 kids plus 3 adults = 7 people.
See? Wasn’t hard.
Just messing with you, my mom is coming along.
So that’s 7.5 of you now?
We have taken the spoiled children 6 times and she has come with us 5 of those times. She loves Disney as much as we do and she travels with us and my sister’s family, eh sometimes because said sister is on a
Disney cruise as I type this and my mom is home getting ready for our trip.
This is also another reason for us taking this trip, but in case my sister ever reads this, we won’t get into the details of that.
Mum’s the word. No wait you’re the mum.
So please settle in, get ready for some laughs, and I hope you enjoy the rantings of your newest disney crazed friend!
Sounds good to me!
All are welcomed and please POST OFTEN so I know you are reading and I don't get a complex that I am doing this for my own entertainment. Heh.
Okay,
OKAY!
Sheesh.
Your husband sounds awesome
I’m not sure, but rumour has it that
all husbands who post here, are.
This is Mal when she was 2. My favorite all time clip of her! We were at Hollywood and Vine Sing and Dine in Hollywood Studios. Don't even know if this exists anymore.
Cutie patootie.
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I thought I give you all an update on the last 24 hours now that Zack is settled in at home and his adoring and duped sisters are taking care of his every demand.
Ah, yes. I remember when I was about 13 and was laid up. I made my DSis a virtual slave.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
I have had foot issues for about 6 months and my foot is usually screaming at me by the end of the day.
Sorry to hear that.
The heel is toast and this concerns me.
Toast is better if you scrape off the burnt bits.
My phone rings and its Tim. “We have a problem.” This is a serious statement and he has my full attention.
Never a good call. And there’s only one thing that can make it worse.
“Zack is in pain and in tears, it’s his side and it keeps getting worse.”
And that’s it.
I tell him to take him to urgent care and then change my mind and tell him the hospital ER in case it’s serious and they have to really do something for him.
Boy, that was a good call on your part. What made you change your mind?
Parents are really good at that…. And it never ends.
I call Tim, text, FB, I can’t get him to respond. That is the surest way to send a mom to the looney bin folks.
Yikes. If your foot wasn’t sore, I’m sure you would’ve paced a hole in the deck.
Tim left his phone in the car.
Seriously?
Who does that?
I’d say Tim was lucky. If you hadn’t been so concerned with Zack…. I shudder at the thought.
By this time they drew blood, and did an ultra sound, and put Zack on a Morphine drip!
And right about now, Mom’s in need of some meds, too, I’m betting.
Tim called to tell me they were doing a CT scan and Zack was drinking barium.
Ha! Zack is the pickiest eater of all four of my kids. I have no idea how they got him to drink that although it took him an hour.
Poor guy. I remember when our first DD was a baby and my MIL decided to overdose her with Tylenol (don’t ask). She had to drink this charcoal mixture. Afterwards, she looked like a miner who’d been in a bad accident… but she was smiling.
My phone rings again and Tim tells me his white blood cell count is like 18,000which is high and an indication that Zack’s days of being whole is shot!
The appendix needs to come out!
And I need to get my butt to the hospital.
Oh, my gosh. You must have been flipping out. I know I would’ve been.
There is no worse feeling than walking into your child’s ER room and finding it empty. ACK!!! Did I miss them!? Are they already operating?
Oh, boy. I can feel your terror from here.
He will be taken to the OR soon and not 10 minutes later the hot assisting surgeon comes and gets my son. Follow me he says, I jump up and and obey!
Did you follow him because he was hot?
The line of the night was, “You are a big 13 year old.” And Zack’s reply of the night was, “I have been told.” I loved how he managed to keep his sense of humor through this.
At 3:30am the surgeon came to tell us Zack was done and doing fine.
Were you breathing a sigh of relief at this point? Or only when you got to see him?
I think I got a 2-3 hour nap
Been there. Done that. Will do it again.
Still sucks.
Side note:I found out that I have a bone spur and the doctor gave me a cortisone shot, IN MY FOOT WITH A NEEDLE!
I can finally walk without feeling pain. I hope that means I can manage the parks better. He also gave me a treatment plan to avoid surgery and arch support inserts for my shoes. I think I’m finally 6’ tall!
Glad to hear that the foot’s feeling better, and congrats on the new elevation.
We got home close to 6pm. EXHAUSTED, but relieved that my family is all fine and together and HOME.
I can believe that!
Sadly Zack had to give up his appendix, a useless part of the body, 9 days before we leave for our Disney trip.
I have a few co-workers that have useless parts of the body. But I can’t get a doctor to remove their collective brains.
The doctor is not too sure about letting him swimtime soon any so our plans may have to change.
I’m thinking that a change in plans now is better than a sick boy in Disney.
Here's hoping he has a great week of healing. And this is my cue to open a mommy drink.
Never a dull moment and I still love this crazy life I have been blessed with.
Wow. That’s quite the update. Glad to hear he’s doing better now.
Zack is home recouping and building up his strength for Disney.
He is sore and they gave him a script for Vikes. Waiting to see if we really need to fill it or if the OTC meds can control his pain.
You might want to go ahead and fill that prescription. If he doesn’t need them, you can mail them off. I’ve got Nebo’s address if you need it.
That was a great night indeed! So many Dissers!! Josh is great, and we have a little one now, DS by the name of Avery who is about to be 2. 
Loving life in Florida (about 30 minutes from the mouse)! How are you and smidgy? We should meet up while you are down here too! Monica, when are you meeting up with this fellow? 
