letthewookiewin
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- Feb 23, 2006
Yeah the past two trips were much easier to lack for. I am going to need a second suitcase which is ridiculous for a weekend trip.
I am going to WDW and not even DD can take away that magicHave fun at the mall, I hope you find some great deals!!!!
Friday definitely needs to be a break in the "festivities" otherwise I may end up in a mental institute this weekend instead of WDW
Okay, first, WL, woohoo!!!! So glad you finally got that figured out!!!!! Second I totally understand what you have been through with your younger DS. My oldest DS is my easy one too. We knew DS9 had something wrong when he was 3, but of course it is too early diagnose at that age and at 4 a psychologist told us that he was brilliant but in his own world. As the years went on I knew in my heart it was Asperger's Syndrome (on the autism spectrum) and sure enough he finally got that diagnosis when he was 6. DD has always been difficult and I always suspected she had ADHD but her preschool teachers kept telling me no way, well that was just her anxiety keeping her quiet at school. Her first grade teacher knew right away that she had ADHD and I finally felt like I wasn't loosing my mind. We expected the official diagnosis to be ADHD, but we were so lucky to also have her diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and oppositional defiance disorder on top of combined type ADHD!! I swear my life is a swirling world of acronyms, LOL!!!
And OH MY about the funky happenings in your bedroom, EEK!!!!!
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For while I thought I was losing my mind. Then one day I watched Oprah, which was odd b/c I usually didn't do it. Jenny McCarthy and Holly Robinson Peete were on it. They were talking about their children that had Autism. Jenny kept saying that a mother knows when something is wrong and to just follow their heart on what they feel is best. My mil (a nurse) had been saying since he was a baby that she thought something was wrong, but my DH blew it off as her being "doom and gloom", which she tends to be. After I saw the Oprah, I called his pedi and asked for the number of a neurologist they suggested. They asked why, said they would talk to the doctor, and call me back. When they did, the doctor said that he refused to give me the name of a neurologist and wanted to try a different medication. I refused and said that if they wouldn't give me the number to one, I would call my insurance and just find one that way. My DH kept telling me I was "grasping at straws", but I said that I would grasp at every straw until I found out what was really going on with him. The DH still didn't believe the diagnosis, until he came to an appt with us and the neurologist did a hyperventilation test on the DS and he had a petite mal seizure big enough for us to notice it.
Our main problem with his learning is that he doesn't put the effort into it, it's not that he doesn't understand or can't do it. He's behind on his reading, but I know he can read way better than he shows the teachers. We've caught him reading things he acts like he can't, when he doesn't think anyone is around. Heck by the first grade, he was talking about DNA, how to collect it, and where to collect it in order to clone someone. Oh, and also the time space continuum. The way he talked about both, he totally understood what he was talking about and not just regurgitating something he had seen on tv.
Mine is GF with SAB and closer parking
I think we can agree then, that one of the ingredients to the perfect WDW is SAB.
My DS11 is having the same kinda year, and we've never had issues...adolescence....ugh
I'm beginning to think Mark Twain was right about teenagers. He supposedly advised parents that "when a child turns 13, his parents should put him in a barrel, close the lid, and feed him through a hole in the side. Then, when he turns 16, plug up the hole."
I hope it is. This is the last WDW trip for us for a while, so I want to make it super special. The DH wants to do some non-Disney things, and I promised we would. I just would love to see the new Fantasyland while it is still new. In 2014, he wants to do a cruise. I want it to be small, so we can save money for a big vacation in 2015. That will be our 20th year wedding anniversary and I want to do something big. Maybe like London/Paris.
It's a new day! Hope DD comes to her senses....she's going to WDW after all! and 7 yr olds should LOVE the mouse's house!!! 
Hope her Diva dies and she gets on board with you with some happiness instead of grouchiness! 
Whew, if she's giving you that hard of a time at 7, you've got your hands full for another 12 yrs my friend!!! but we'll be here to help you through it -- to listen and support, that's what friends are for 
I so understand the hygeine thing too....allthough , thankfully once he got a girlfriend, it got better!! 
DS was a real challenge in high school. As an example on the night before graduation we all sat by the phone waiting for a call from his English teacher ... my wonderful son needed at least a 95% on his advanced placement English class to pass it and he had to pass it to have enough credits to graduate! Lucky for him it was an oral presentation and he got a grade of 100%. This kid could talk his way through and out of anything!!! He walked off the stage at graduation and up to us and told us now he would get serious about life ... he just wanted to have fun in high school! Bad grades = 2 years at community college, transfer to Cal and then law school at George Washington ... see I told you he could talk!!! 
Well, slightly under $63 with my Red Card discount -- that matters, right? I need one of those collars like they put on dogs whose yards have the Invisible Fence. It needs to zap me every time I get near that overly-enticing part of the store. On second thought, my willpower is so weak and determination to get tchotchkes so strong ... they could set it on stun and it might not stop me. 
I'm not going to know what to pack.
We anxiously await your news. You'll be happy to know that the $66 worth of junk did not include a Reindeer Poop keychain. (I should probably not mention -- but I will anyway -- that during one visit to Vermont, I bought my hubs a magnet of a moose head made out of shellacked moose-poop. 
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Getting closer to January and your new co-worker!
I hope you get every penny you deserve 
, I am off to the mall armed with coupons. Wish me luck!
I totally know what you mean regarding DS6. You have to follow your gut when it comes to your kids. I think you will be happy when you know exactly what is going on. I never gave up and even though I didn't necessarily want the labels, like you, I wanted to know how to help them best. Did you get the dis res # from Orbitz again?
mama needs a relaxing afternoon!!!!
