8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #9

[tom31b]

Yeah, I had to go up and make sure the thread hadn't got cut off at 200 pages. I looked for #10, but then saw you'd posted here.

Andy

Nope, we should be good for a bunch more pages

 

[pdarrah]

Hi Everyone!

I haven't been on here as much the last few days - having DS9 at the office and running everything with my parents out of town (family business) has kept me hopping. I also have their insane dog and DS still has fiddle & karate (but no step-dance!) over the summer. Next week he'll be at Art Camp most of the day, so it will be a little easier.

As I am running around, I am soooo jealous of my parents. They were in Helsinki today on their Baltic cruise - tomorrow is St. Petersburg. My father is sending me these really short cryptic emails each day - usually about 2 scentances! I'm saving them all so that when I do the same thing to him in August, I can show them to him when he complains about it

I finally started making a to-do list today (while waiting at DS's hour long karate class ) - it makes me feel a little better to have it started, but there is an awful lot still to take care of!

I think I saw last week that the plans are falling into place for the busses from DL area to the port. Has anything be posted yet about how to pay? This is one of the things on my to-do list

Pamela

 

[tom31b]

Hi Everyone!

I haven't been on here as much the last few days - having DS9 at the office and running everything with my parents out of town (family business) has kept me hopping. I also have their insane dog and DS still has fiddle & karate (but no step-dance!) over the summer. Next week he'll be at Art Camp most of the day, so it will be a little easier.

As I am running around, I am soooo jealous of my parents. They were in Helsinki today on their Baltic cruise - tomorrow is St. Petersburg. My father is sending me these really short cryptic emails each day - usually about 2 scentances! I'm saving them all so that when I do the same thing to him in August, I can show them to him when he complains about it

I finally started making a to-do list today (while waiting at DS's hour long karate class ) - it makes me feel a little better to have it started, but there is an awful lot still to take care of!

I think I saw last week that the plans are falling into place for the busses from DL area to the port. Has anything be posted yet about how to pay? This is one of the things on my to-do list

Pamela

Nothing on how to pay yet, promised to be shortly

 

[tom31b]

Surfing around, there are a lot of scam artists in the camera sales area on line. If you don't know the company and its too good to be true... avoid it.

 

[tom31b]

You can get an Epson Stylus R280 Photo Printer free after rebate from Circuit city with the purchase of the Olympus camera....

 

[GeneralMax]

Thanks for the days!



yes, it was dangerous- but instead of doing something about THEM and THEIR behavior- she basically punished my daughter by not using her as a topper hardly ever the last part of the year. 2 other girls ended up being toppers after that (it was the 3 of them with Ruby doing the "new" stuff or any stunts that needed only one topper) and by the end of the year they were doing all sorts of things she never got to do. All because the "popular girls" did not like holding her up and threatened her and dropped her a few times. I wanted her to do something about those girls or switch Ruby to the other bases that another girl was using so she wasn't with them- she solved the problem by just not having Ruby as at topper and those girls not having to be bases either. totally stunk IMO..... what she did was the only thing she could do if she refused to do something about those girls, I suppose. because that last time when they dropped her and she almost fell headfirst on the gym floor I was ready to spit nails and say she couldn't be a topper anymore anyway. But really I think she should have done what she SAID she was gonna do NEXT year (she said this at their tryouts parent meeting at the end of the year) which was to discipline THEM and if they can't act right- off the squad then!
They were all a clique- all knew one another all their lives, all friends, their moms and dads were friends, all went to gymnastics together, all popular, etc. Ruby didn't even know most of their NAMES (and the ones she knew the names was only vaguely- not like she talked to them before or something)- and she isn't one of those "popular kids" (primarily because I don't let her dress like that, wear makeup when they were younger, don't let her date yet, etc. like they all do) -so they pretty much ostracized her the entire year.... and the coach let them then punished her when they were risking her injury and did nothing to them for their behavior! *sigh*

There is a wonderful book that I read when my daughter was having trouble with the "MEAN GIRLS" that really changed my mind set and helped me help her. The book is called "Odd Girl Out". It was written by a woman who studied the behaviors of adolescents girls towards each other and then traced the impact of these behaviors in adult women. Bottom line - Boys get mad and get over it. - Girls can be mean in a way that wounds for life. I think it is must read for all parents of adolescent girls. It helped us make some tough calls on things like schools and have a language to talk to her about what she was going through.

I don't know about you all but parenting is not easy and you want the best for your kids but sometimes I don't know what that is so I will take all the help I can get.

 

[got2travel]

Question for the crafters and seamstresses out there, besides ebay where is a good place for buttons? I need a lot of them for DS's costume so Joanns and Micheals gets expensive. I'm not finding any suitable on ebay. So where else can I look?

 

[tom31b]

There is a wonderful book that I read when my daughter was having trouble with the "MEAN GIRLS" that really changed my mind set and helped me help her. The book is called "Odd Girl Out". It was written by a woman who studied the behaviors of adolescents girls towards each other and then traced the impact of these behaviors in adult women. Bottom line - Boys get mad and get over it. - Girls can be mean in a way that wounds for life. I think it is must read for all parents of adolescent girls. It helped us make some tough calls on things like schools and have a language to talk to her about what she was going through.

I don't know about you all but parenting is not easy and you want the best for your kids but sometimes I don't know what that is so I will take all the help I can get.

After that youtube video of the girls beating one of their friends to a bloody mess, Good Morning America talked about this kind of stuff, sounds a lot like what you describe in the book

 

[Stepht5]

You can get an Epson Stylus R280 Photo Printer free after rebate from Circuit city with the purchase of the Olympus camera....

Epson makes the best photo printers! I own several of them......

There is a wonderful book that I read when my daughter was having trouble with the "MEAN GIRLS" that really changed my mind set and helped me help her. The book is called "Odd Girl Out". It was written by a woman who studied the behaviors of adolescents girls towards each other and then traced the impact of these behaviors in adult women. Bottom line - Boys get mad and get over it. - Girls can be mean in a way that wounds for life. I think it is must read for all parents of adolescent girls. It helped us make some tough calls on things like schools and have a language to talk to her about what she was going through.

I don't know about you all but parenting is not easy and you want the best for your kids but sometimes I don't know what that is so I will take all the help I can get.

Isn't that the truth!!! It would also be so much easier if what works with one child worked with them all! LOL! We have 5 and they are all different.....

 

[pdarrah]

Question for the crafters and seamstresses out there, besides ebay where is a good place for buttons? I need a lot of them for DS's costume so Joanns and Micheals gets expensive. I'm not finding any suitable on ebay. So where else can I look?

Monica - try thrift stores, goodwill stores or even the junkier antique stores. We`have often found jars or boxes of buttons - DS uses them for some of his art. I assume they come from people who just saved/collected them for years and then decide to clean out the clutter.....

Pamela

 

[msaseifert]

Question for the crafters and seamstresses out there, besides ebay where is a good place for buttons? I need a lot of them for DS's costume so Joanns and Micheals gets expensive. I'm not finding any suitable on ebay. So where else can I look?

Check at Walmart if you have one near you. Walmart usually has a nice crafting dept with lots of sewing notions. Good luck!!

 

[Stepht5]

Dh got his dad settled back at home. Picked up the 'scrips and hten gave his dad a lecture about how to take the antibiotics -- FIL's MO is take all medicine needed at once...... Hopefully he listened!

I know MIL has appreciated having our 17dd at her house while all this is going on. MIL doesn't handle illness,/hospitals so, i think she liked having hte excuse *I have to take Samantha to work.* *I have to pick Samantha up from work.* to get out of visiting at the hospital.

 

[tom31b]

Isn't that the truth!!! It would also be so much easier if what works with one child worked with them all! LOL! We have 5 and they are all different.....

If child rearing was the simple cookie cutter routine the talk show snake oil salesmen make it out to be... we would never have stress as parents.

I'm glad I have two boys (ref the "wound for life" issue) but they can be as different as night and day and take two approaches to the same problems

 

[AndyR]

Ok, we bit the bullet and I've sent in the request to have our two cabins join the Captains Dining Extravaganza.

Andy

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Andy, Austyn will love having Sarah for dinner.

 

[got2travel]

Ok, we bit the bullet and I've sent in the request to have our two cabins join the Captains Dining Extravaganza.

Andy

Why....are we that scary???

 

[msaseifert]

Dh got his dad settled back at home. Picked up the 'scrips and hten gave his dad a lecture about how to take the antibiotics -- FIL's MO is take all medicine needed at once...... Hopefully he listened!

I know MIL has appreciated having our 17dd at her house while all this is going on. MIL doesn't handle illness,/hospitals so, i think she liked having hte excuse *I have to take Samantha to work.* *I have to pick Samantha up from work.* to get out of visiting at the hospital.

Thats good news that he is home and all is well.

Update on my FIL - he has decided he will not live the rest of his life with a feeding tube so now its just a matter of time before he ends up on the hospital with an infection, he really can't swallow well at all. He is on a soft food diet and apparently they may try some sort of stimulation to his throat to see if they can get it to work again for him. Thanks for all the prayers everyone!!

 

[GeneralMax]

I hope this works out for you. But a little word of warning...there are many on this cruise who booked on the very first day and do not have room assignments yet. Some are in the same situation as you, they've got kids booked in the second room, but DCL won't assign anything or even gaurantee they will be near each other. I don't want to be a downer, just wanted you to know what's been happening.

Why do you think Disney does this. We are always so happy once we get on the ship but dealing with the logistics is never fun. Families want to know that they have rooms together and this is a family boat. Not a very magical experience.

Well I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies...wish me luck

 

[ElastigirlWannabe]

so close

 

[got2travel]