Sunset Cliffs
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You had every right to have your meltdown. Since I was the one doing all of the planning for our trip last year, I know what you mean about keeping a schedule. Thank goodness I didn't have the problem that you had. All and all you were still able to enjoy your day ad that's what matters in the end.![]()
I don't think people know how much work goes into planning a trip for multiple people. When it was just Todd & I it was pretty easy. And how do you say, "you don't appreciate my hard work" without sounding like you are whining?

I can completely understand your mini-meltdown! Back in 1997 I had planned a trip for 12 of us for 10 days for my oldest 3 kids, 2 of their friends from Oregon and my late husb's sis from Oregon and his brother, wife & 2 kids from WV. I gladly paid for everything so all they needed to spend $$ on was souvies. Well my husb's bro and wife started complaining the 2nd night we were there about the bus trip to Hoop-de-doo show, saying on "their last trip, they didn't have all this trouble, what in the world was I thinking of doing it this way, blah blah blah" lol. Anyway by the time the dinner was over, I wasn't speaking to them (or their kids for that matter who took advantage of charging stuff to the room, etc.). My husb's sister asked me the next morning what was wrong on our way to the church service at Poly and I had a meltdown saying no one was appreciating anything, if it wasn't for the money I had just inherited from my brother's death, this trip wouldn't have been possible, and I was sad my husband never got to visit WDW cuz back in 1994 we had drove all the way from Oregon to visit Florida and he died in the hotel room from a heart attack before our trip got started. Plus the last time my husb's bro and sis-in-law got to go to WDW was their one and only time from a trip I saved for over a year to treat them with as a thank you for taking us in when my husband died.
To say the least, my good sis-in-law got an earfulBut she completely understood and then I felt horrible for having the meltdown because when we got to the church service, it was based on forgiveness! Then to top it all off, at the end of the trip on our last night all of the family treated me and my kids to a dinner at Fulton's Crab and had a cake in honor of me. (there were a couple of other incidents before this where they still were unappreciative but I shrugged it off and had to decide if I was going to have a good time, I had to take the good with the bad).
Sorry for the long story!! Dylan was so precious sitting out on the patio reading his book - what a precious moment! He is so adorable!
I'm glad you all had a great day in spite of plans being changed - sometimes it all does work out.
I don't even know what to say to your story. It made me cry and then laugh within the same paragraph. I am so sorry that you had such a hard time with your family. What you did was a very generous and loving thing, and you were right to have your feelings hurt. The timing of the church service made me laugh. Leave it to God to point out something like forgiveness right after a situation like that.

Thank you for sharing your story with me. It's always good have others help me put things in persepective.
