Parla
<font color=darkorchid>I don't have room for anoth
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I'm nervous. The last two trips were pure excitement to plan but this time I'm nervous. For the first time ever I'm planning on taking my kids out of school for a couple of days for something other than an illness or a doctor's appointment. They get a four day weekend (four days is definitely not long enough when you haven't been in four years) in October and I've always wanted to do MNSSHP but didn't think I would ever bite the bullet. I really want to do this while they are young enough to enjoy it.
DS is 12 now and it's going to be a tough one to know if he enjoys it. He was diagnosed with Asperger's a few years ago after our last trip. Part of the reason we had him tested was because he had a complete meltdown every morning when he would ask if we were going to the Lego Store and we would have to remind him that the DTD day was scheduled the day before the last full day. It has been really rough dealing with a lot of day to day activity such as homework and trumpet practice. Not to mention cleaning his room and now we've had a rather large bump in the road of missing money from the Disney piggy bank.
DD is 8 and I believe will fully embrace MNSSHP. I've promised her a trip to BBB the day of the party and she is stoked. Her biggest issue is that she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 6 1/2. This will be our first vacation since the diagnosis and a real test for all of us. I wish Disney had a Droid app that listed all the carbs in all of their food. Of course it probably wouldn't help much. The weekend we went to our service unit's girl scout camp out had her blood sugars so low I spent both nights up all night trying to get her to drink juice in her sleep. I cut her insulin at dinner the second night and she was over 500 a couple of hours later. I'm going to work out more of a plan with her nurse practitioner before this trip.
Here we are just minutes after entering the happiest place on earth for the very first time as a family.
Now on to the last really stressful item. We are flying. I don't want to but I also don't want to drive. We just won't have the time. I'm already pulling them out of school for two days. I would have to make it four if we drove. I don't know the first thing about booking flights. I would love to get straight flights with no connections but I'm thinking that's not going to work. Especially at the times we want to fly. I always said if we flew I would want to go with Southwest Airlines because I've always heard such good things about them but their October schedule isn't even out yet. I want to avoid Delta NWA because we had issues last time. My TR was closed before I had the chance to post on those. I should type something up and ask a mod if I can add it.
Question, would it be really stupid of me just to walk into AAA to book my trip and have them take care of the flights also? I always remember T booking through AAA and then getting a great deal on flights all on her own. If even a handful of you say just go with AAA then I'm in their office Monday booking everything since that's the date I read the October flights should be released for Southwest.
I can't wait to come back and post things as they are planned. I really enjoy going back and reading the TR that I made. It brings back so many memories. Plus, help with any problems that arise would be awesome.
UPDATE 03/25/2011 Changed my posts color today to red. Let me know if that's annoying was going to change it to lime green but it was a bit too much. Think I will make the updates I add to my post a different color though.
Booked airfare with Air Tran
Leaving Indy on October 15th at 7 AM to arrive in Orlando at 9:13 AM
Leaving Orlando on October 22nd at 6:40 PM and arrives in Atlanta at 8:13 PM. Leaving Atlanta at 10:15 PM and home by 11:46 PM.
Officially booked ADRs here.
DS is 12 now and it's going to be a tough one to know if he enjoys it. He was diagnosed with Asperger's a few years ago after our last trip. Part of the reason we had him tested was because he had a complete meltdown every morning when he would ask if we were going to the Lego Store and we would have to remind him that the DTD day was scheduled the day before the last full day. It has been really rough dealing with a lot of day to day activity such as homework and trumpet practice. Not to mention cleaning his room and now we've had a rather large bump in the road of missing money from the Disney piggy bank.
DD is 8 and I believe will fully embrace MNSSHP. I've promised her a trip to BBB the day of the party and she is stoked. Her biggest issue is that she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 6 1/2. This will be our first vacation since the diagnosis and a real test for all of us. I wish Disney had a Droid app that listed all the carbs in all of their food. Of course it probably wouldn't help much. The weekend we went to our service unit's girl scout camp out had her blood sugars so low I spent both nights up all night trying to get her to drink juice in her sleep. I cut her insulin at dinner the second night and she was over 500 a couple of hours later. I'm going to work out more of a plan with her nurse practitioner before this trip.
Here we are just minutes after entering the happiest place on earth for the very first time as a family.
Now on to the last really stressful item. We are flying. I don't want to but I also don't want to drive. We just won't have the time. I'm already pulling them out of school for two days. I would have to make it four if we drove. I don't know the first thing about booking flights. I would love to get straight flights with no connections but I'm thinking that's not going to work. Especially at the times we want to fly. I always said if we flew I would want to go with Southwest Airlines because I've always heard such good things about them but their October schedule isn't even out yet. I want to avoid Delta NWA because we had issues last time. My TR was closed before I had the chance to post on those. I should type something up and ask a mod if I can add it.
Question, would it be really stupid of me just to walk into AAA to book my trip and have them take care of the flights also? I always remember T booking through AAA and then getting a great deal on flights all on her own. If even a handful of you say just go with AAA then I'm in their office Monday booking everything since that's the date I read the October flights should be released for Southwest.
I can't wait to come back and post things as they are planned. I really enjoy going back and reading the TR that I made. It brings back so many memories. Plus, help with any problems that arise would be awesome.
UPDATE 03/25/2011 Changed my posts color today to red. Let me know if that's annoying was going to change it to lime green but it was a bit too much. Think I will make the updates I add to my post a different color though.
Booked airfare with Air Tran
Leaving Indy on October 15th at 7 AM to arrive in Orlando at 9:13 AM
Leaving Orlando on October 22nd at 6:40 PM and arrives in Atlanta at 8:13 PM. Leaving Atlanta at 10:15 PM and home by 11:46 PM.
Officially booked ADRs here.
Originally I was going to pull the kids out of school for Tuesday and Wednesday on a week that they already had a four day weekend. But then DH was looking at the flights and typing in Saturday to Saturday. I was very confused and he was like, "If you're gonna do it do it right." 
I'm sure the doctor is just making sure she still wants it at the next appointment but I know we'll also have to take classes and prove we can maintain certain blood sugars before they'll let us get one. Then dealing with insurance may be another matter. I think pumps run about $6,000. They haven't given us too much trouble with supplies though, other than the office always has to call with a new test strip prescription to convince them to give us 300 instead of just 200 a month. I have used 8 test strips in a two hour period when she's sleeping while force feeding her (in her sleep) so 200 is definitely not enough.
many prayers are being sent your way. I can hardly fathom a place being so great someone would want to keep going back...But I'm about to find out for myself in dec. I have taken my child out of school in the past for family stuff...we got the schoolwork before hand and he did a report and got some extra credit too. Plus I think he enjoyed the trip that much more since he was having fun and his classmates weren't. good luck!!! looking forward to more. 
