5/27/06 "Il pochi il fiero i blabbermouths" We *will* sail again Part 10

[RachelTori]

Ok some number crunching for a Wednesday morning.


It has been 1101 days (or 157 weeks) since the first post on the Dec. 2004 10 day thread where some of us met. Yes we've been chatting for 3 years now!

It has been 637 days or 91 weeks since Amanda first started this thread.

It was 544 days or 77 weeks between the first post on the 10 day thread and the actual cruise.

It was 605 days or 86 weeks between the first post on this thread and the actual cruise.

Makes me feel like a "newbie"!! I've only been posting on this thread since October 2005. Someday I really should go back and read all the "stuff" I missed!!

 

[WDWLVR]

Makes me feel like a "newbie"!! I've only been posting on this thread since October 2005. Someday I really should go back and read all the "stuff" I missed!!

Especially the white type from Amanda in the early days.

 

[BWVPam]

Good morning everyone!!


All this talk of a mom's trip to WDW has me wishing I could go. Unfortunately, Charley and I celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary in November 2007 and I need to save up for that. I have been playing with the idea of a Wonder cruise. Even have a secret porthole room selected. Then I started thinking about RCCL. Have always wanted to try them and figure this was a good time since we would be doing a 4 day cruise w/o kids. They only require a $200 deposit on a 4 day and we can get a Junior Suite with a balcony for about $100 less than a cat 10 on DCL. Decisions, Decisions. I have to release the dcl room today.

 

[ohiominnie]

If my ticker is correct for the June 7th date - we are in double digits! I think it's around 94 weeks.

Ok, not a math genius here, but there are 52 weeks in a year....that means 104 weeks is two years....but we are just less than that....by 3 weeks, which still leaves us at 101 weeks.

If I'm wrong, I'd better brush up on math before the next school year starts!!!

 

[ohiominnie]

Good morning everyone!!


All this talk of a mom's trip to WDW has me wishing I could go.

Not me. Call me odd man out, but I MUCH prefer vacationing with my family. I'd probably be miserable knowing I was doing something that my family LOVED so much and they'd be stuck at home. Mike and I went to WDW once without the kids (but we did take his mom and her dh) and it just wasn't the same without them....I cried when I saw Snow White in the parade b/c that was KT's favorite and I knew she'd dearly love to have been there.

Guess there will be a time for Mike and I to vacation alone, but it won't be until the kids are grown and gone. And me vacationing by myself? or Mike by himself? Probably will never happen.

So no mom's trip for me.....not like I was invited anyway!!

 

[armyfam]

Not me. Call me odd man out, but I MUCH prefer vacationing with my family. I'd probably be miserable knowing I was doing something that my family LOVED so much and they'd be stuck at home. Mike and I went to WDW once without the kids (but we did take his mom and her dh) and it just wasn't the same without them....I cried when I saw Snow White in the parade b/c that was KT's favorite and I knew she'd dearly love to have been there.

Guess there will be a time for Mike and I to vacation alone, but it won't be until the kids are grown and gone. And me vacationing by myself? or Mike by himself? Probably will never happen.

So no mom's trip for me.....not like I was invited anyway!!

Hey, OM,

Paul and I were just talking about this possibility....maybe it would work for your family as well...

Go with the family when the "Mom's meet" and meet the Mom's for dinner or a day at a park or....

That way you get the best of both world's...sharing disney with the family as well as the Moms!

We're toying with that since I have some Visa $$ I need to spend before Dec 07. (Took all of my $$ out just before we ended up not going on the cruise.)

susan

 

[WDWLVR]

Karen - you aren't odd man out because I'm right there with you. It would be hard to leave Mark and go do something like WDW or a cruise that we both love and do it without him.

 

[justmestace]

Hey, OM,

Paul and I were just talking about this possibility....maybe it would work for your family as well...

Go with the family when the "Mom's meet" and meet the Mom's for dinner or a day at a park or....

That way you get the best of both world's...sharing disney with the family as well as the Moms!

We're toying with that since I have some Visa $$ I need to spend before Dec 07. (Took all of my $$ out just before we ended up not going on the cruise.)

susan

That's a great idea! Did you hear her, Mary????

 

[justmestace]

Ohminnie...I wouldn't have considered it either, when my kids were younger like yours. Now that they are teenagers, I will take any opportunity to get as far away from them (for a limited amount of time) as possible. It won't be long and they'll be going all sorts of places without me, so I may as well get in a week or two now and then to myself.

My Mom's entire life revolved around us kids. Ever since we all left home (to this very day!) she has had no idea what to do with herself. I'm convinced that the reason she is the way she is (very jealous of any friends I now have, very over-possesive of our time together, etc) is because she made her life all about us kids, and didn't have a life of her own. I guess I'm selfish, but I won't do that to myself. I have spent 24 years HALF MY LIFE! raising kids. I am entitled to some "me" time.

Sorry....having a bad day thanks to one of the kids. Off my soapbox now.

 

[kikipug]

Not me. Call me odd man out, but I MUCH prefer vacationing with my family. I'd probably be miserable knowing I was doing something that my family LOVED so much and they'd be stuck at home.

I think in this case, its easier for me because (now, all of you, don't hate me for saying this), but going to Orlando isn't a vacation to me. My kids are used to WDW being a daytrip, not a vacation. Which, honestly DOES have a downside- its a little less 'special' than it was before we lived here. (And we can NEVER justify DVC...)

Guess there will be a time for Mike and I to vacation alone, but it won't be until the kids are grown and gone. And me vacationing by myself? or Mike by himself? Probably will never happen.

Ray and I took our first vacation without kids when Elizabeth was 18 months old. We found it was very good for US, and gave the kids some uninterupted grandparent time. We used to go every year, but it doesn't always work out that way now that we live farther from my parents. Now, he occasionally comes with me when I have a business trip, and it becomes our mini-vacation. But, different things work for different families... my sister and her DH took their first sans-kids vacation last year... and their oldest is 23. (But she and I have cruised together - no kids, no DH's... now THAT was fun!!)

not like I was invited anyway!!

Hmm... sorry... you're not laying the guilt trip on us for this one... and I quote...

I think I need a park buddy that wants to go off season and enjoys hanging out at Epcot. Any takers?

Any means ANY... including you!!!!

 

[tinytink]

I think in this case, its easier for me because (now, all of you, don't hate me for saying this), but going to Orlando isn't a vacation to me. My kids are used to WDW being a daytrip, not a vacation. Which, honestly DOES have a downside- its a little less 'special' than it was before we lived here. (And we can NEVER justify DVC...)

Ray and I took our first vacation without kids when Elizabeth was 18 months old. We found it was very good for US, and gave the kids some uninterupted grandparent time. We used to go every year, but it doesn't always work out that way now that we live farther from my parents. Now, he occasionally comes with me when I have a business trip, and it becomes our mini-vacation. But, different things work for different families... my sister and her DH took their first sans-kids vacation last year... and their oldest is 23. (But she and I have cruised together - no kids, no DH's... now THAT was fun!!)

Hmm... sorry... you're not laying the guilt trip on us for this one... and I quote...

Any means ANY... including you!!!!

I have never been anywhere without the kids since they have been born. With our last one still nursing at 17 months I think I will be ready for a break from the kids. I am home with them 24/7. Mommy needs some Mommy time. hehehe I got this pillow as a baby shower gift and it's cross stitched to read "Mommy's Turn" on one side and "Daddy's Turn" on the other. I think I will have to flip the pillow to "Daddy's Turn" for this trip, but you all know we will have to see as the time gets closer. Have a good day all.

 

[whnim64]

Not me. Call me odd man out, but I MUCH prefer vacationing with my family.

That's why I'm doing a girls' cruise. Two of my 'kids' are grown, and I don't get to see them much. At least once a year we've been taking a 'girls weekend'. We just decided to extend it in 2007, when my older DD will be 30! So I'll have to leave DH and DS home for a week. Besides, with , they won't even know that I'm gone.

 

[ohiominnie]

Hmm... sorry... you're not laying the guilt trip on us for this one... and I quote...

Any means ANY... including you!!!!

But Diana said:

I think I need a park buddy that wants to go off season and enjoys hanging out at Epcot. Anytakers?

I want to do PEAK season at Magic Kingdom

Part of our problem too is that Mike maxes out his vacation time each year taking family trips. He *technically* is allowed 5 weeks. He usually takes 6, plus various and sundry Fridays or Mondays to extend a weekend (or a vacation) So for him and I to go it would mean decreasing one of our other trips---which no one wants to do.

The good thing is, I'm ok with the situation as it is now. Everytime something comes up that sounds interesting, I just remind myself that right now is the season for me to be raising kids. I'm not sad about it. I don't feel deprived. Nor am I resentful of the fact that this is where God wants me right now. So in the words of Colin.....It's all good.

 

[kikipug]

The good thing is, I'm ok with the situation as it is now.

There's the key right there!!!





BTW... 5 weeks vacation.... we can't even coordinate the 2 that we each get!!!!

 

[kikipug]

Nor am I resentful of the fact that this is where God wants me right now.

Yet I can't help but think that God REALLLLLLY wants us ALL to be on Castaway Cay, sipping Konk Koolers today...

 

[Dancind]

Not me. Call me odd man out, but I MUCH prefer vacationing with my family. I'd probably be miserable knowing I was doing something that my family LOVED so much and they'd be stuck at home. Mike and I went to WDW once without the kids (but we did take his mom and her dh) and it just wasn't the same without them....I cried when I saw Snow White in the parade b/c that was KT's favorite and I knew she'd dearly love to have been there.

Guess there will be a time for Mike and I to vacation alone, but it won't be until the kids are grown and gone. And me vacationing by myself? or Mike by himself? Probably will never happen.

So no mom's trip for me.....not like I was invited anyway!!

Of course you were invited, did you not read "any takers?" That means you! I do understand though. And I can't even claim that it's because Alicia is a teen, because she's a joy to travel with. She's in a "been there, done that" phase, so I might as well take advantage of it and take an opportunity to do some off-season travel that I just can't do with her. The summer trips were really getting tough with the heat and the crowds. We wouldn't leave her here alone, so that means Dad stays too. I've done it plenty of weekends and longer scuba trips so I don't feel guilty, in spite of what I said. Yes, I will miss them, but I expect to be having so much fun that it won't be full time missing. Plus, she will be driving by then so it will be pretty easy for Kevin. It's this September that will just about kill him. But as I said, I've built up quite a credit.

 

[Dancind]

Hey, OM,

Paul and I were just talking about this possibility....maybe it would work for your family as well...

Go with the family when the "Mom's meet" and meet the Mom's for dinner or a day at a park or....

That way you get the best of both world's...sharing disney with the family as well as the Moms!

We're toying with that since I have some Visa $$ I need to spend before Dec 07. (Took all of my $$ out just before we ended up not going on the cruise.)

susan

Susan, that's a really good idea! Those of you that want to go with your family and can swing it school-wise or work-wise, consider this! I guess we will need to pick dates by this November, huh? That way everyone will be happy!

 

[Dancind]

I have never been anywhere without the kids since they have been born. With our last one still nursing at 17 months I think I will be ready for a break from the kids. I am home with them 24/7. Mommy needs some Mommy time. hehehe I got this pillow as a baby shower gift and it's cross stitched to read "Mommy's Turn" on one side and "Daddy's Turn" on the other. I think I will have to flip the pillow to "Daddy's Turn" for this trip, but you all know we will have to see as the time gets closer. Have a good day all.

Theresa, thanks for adding your name! Don't worry about crazy internet people, they're all on this thread anyway.

You probably deserve the trip more than most! It is hard when they are little. Kevin and I took two long weekend trips when Alicia was little, my SIL watched her. Alicia got sick both times, just like the first time she went to GS camp. She didn't do well without her Mom and Dad, but I think she would be just fine now! Hee. Problem is, SIL has two kids now with busy schedules, and Alicia's schedule is as bad as both of hers combined. We couldn't do that to anyone. So no couple vacations for us for a while. We have a 20th anniversary in 2008. Whatever we do, we take her along. You don't leave a 17 year old home alone!

 

[Dancind]

Almost to the end of my posting frenzy. Must take the daughter to lunch and to buy shoes for the DL parade. They discourage dance shoes since they would be in shreds by the end of the parade.

I sometimes think that I only have a few years left of family trips. But my brain tells me that this isn't going to happen. She likes travelling with us, especially when we pay! And that won't go away soon, right Virgil? I'm looking forward to that time too, just hoping we can keep paying for it!

 

[tinksdad]

We have a 20th anniversary in 2008. Whatever we do, we take her along. You don't leave a 17 year old home alone!

Hmmmm, what to think about Hawaii??? Twenty years to get back there, about time .......