A Daily Lesson in Parenting and Manners: A TR by a real life Wicked Stepmom!

Well, I've gotten hooked on another GREAT TR!!! You are a very gifted writer.

You are exactly what those kids needed! :thumbsup2

I had never heard about the paint brushes until reading your TR. When we go back in December, we are wanting to find things we've never done before. My DD was excited when I told her about the paint brushes...now she's ready to go hunting...:tiptoe:

I'll be anxiously waiting for more....popcorn::
 
Subbing... I absolutely MUST stop reading now and get some things done!!:laundy:
:grouphug: to you and your family, I LOVE the eyebrow thing, I'm so jealous. My eyebrows are flops, parent-wise.:lmao:
BTW, I have a wicked stepmom who STILL calls me "Kirsterella" that I love so much I asked her to come with on our first WDW trip! And she is as much my kids' mom as I am, and I LOVE that. So, while the wicked mommy reaps her bad consequences, YOU will someday be the *grandma of their choice* for their babies.
 
Miss Cammie pleeeeese give us more:flower3:

Between you and Zzub....I'm getting real anxious to go to
WDW real soon.....

I need another installment to tide me over:goodvibes
Kerri
 
MissCammie, wonderful, as always.

I've just returned from the World and your last installment is bringing back such nice (and other) memories. :)

The shirt thing had me laughing because the EXACT same thing happened with my 5 year old and it was making me CRAZY. Because I also have a 2 year old, I had a change of clothes in my bag for each of them, so I just changed his shirt. I had a Pirates of the Carribean messenger bag. Usually we take a backpack that is a diaperbag we got from Eddie Bauer, but my DH refused to carry it this time, so I got the messenger bag and it worked great.

We haven't been on the Stitch ride yet because my 5 year old isn't crazy about the dark, and my 2 year old isn't tall enough. I'm somewhat glad now that we haven't been on it. :crazy2:

I will say that, surprisingly this time, we encountered mostly very friendly people. People that made me want to be friendlier. It was a very nice change.

I'm looking forward to your next installment. I've got to get started on my TR now. Soon. ;)
 

Caught up with ya again, and I was at WDW for five days! :laughing: Looking forward as always to reading more.

BTW, while in WDW, I recommended your TR to two people. You are that good. We also sat where you did for both Boo to You and Spectromagic, and I told my traveling companion the story of mighty Sally and her indignation with the rulebreakers.:love: Love that girl.
 
Phew, I'm all caught up! I just got back from Disney a few days ago, so there was a lot to catch up on. You are doing a wonderful job helping us feel like we are right there with you. Thanks!

Denise
 
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popcorn:: popcorn:: popcorn:: More please! You are such a great trip report writer! Are we going to see the bruised eye/nose? You poor thing! I was in NYC once and kinda ummm.....:rolleyes1 fell over the curb....:rolleyes1. My leg was a mess, it was bleeding through my jeans. So on the way home in Grand Central Station I stopped at a drug store to get some bandaids, patched myself up and we got on the train. I was sitting with my 2 friends on the side of me and my leg up on the seat across from me when some jerk threw down his back pack on my leg! :scared: I let out such a yell the entire train full of people stopped dead in their tracks. You could see my leg was all cut up and banaged. He just looked at me and gave me a dirty look and walked on, no "gee i'm sorry, nothing. His mother just threw me a :snooty: glance and kept going. There was only one seat there any way, what were they thinking! I'm feeling your pain!
 
Waiting patiently for your next installment!!!!!:cheer2: Hope everything at home is going alright for you!!:love:
 
Hey everyone,
Just wanted to say thanks for all of the wonderful comments. They are verbal band aids for "heart owies" as Teddy calls them. I've had a few heart owies this week and it's been VERY nice to read such lovely things.

I'm working on another chapter I PROMISE!!

In the interim time...Zzub has started a new TR and he's the BEST...of the best...

He makes a trip to WallyWorld an adventure!!

and he's a little more consistent with his postings...

:flower3:

thanks everyone. truly. Y'all are wonderful!!

more SOON!!!
 
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Yayyyy for stepmothers.
 
Miss Cammie, While I am truly loving your trip report, I am concerned about you. We haven't heard from you for awhile. I hope that everything is okay. I am sending a hug your way.:grouphug:
 
Miss Cammie, While I am truly loving your trip report, I am concerned about you. We haven't heard from you for awhile. I hope that everything is okay. I am sending a hug your way.:grouphug:

I second that, the "ouchie heart" did not sound sound so good!

:wizard: and :grouphug: and pixiedust: to the Miss Cammie Family.
 
But there was a curious happening in the table area at Pecos Bills. There was a CM standing in the area and he wasn't letting people sit down if they did not have food with them!:scared1:

Now as y'all can probably imagine this was leading to all sorts of screeching from the people who are MUCH more tired and hot and in need of a table than people who have trays full of food, and kids in tow, and bags...searching in vain for an empty table. Serves them right for not thinking ahead right?

right.

*ahem*

OMG :scared1: As much as I hate hearing people yell, scream, or otherwise be angry while on vacation, I think I have to agree with that lady. My DH suffers from a multitude of health issues, congestive heart failure to be one of them. You wouldn't know it to look at him, but he gets really hot, sweaty, and exhausted, especially on a day like Miss Cammie was describing. I ALWAYS seat him at a table, then go stand in line myself.

That Florida heat can really knock a person out. Shame on Disney for not considering the needs of persons who may be affected by it. :sad2: :sad2:
 
After the foulness that is Stitch's Great Escape, Sally was MAD. She was mad at Stitch, she was mad at Mickey for allowing Stitch to be so gross to unsuspecting park guests, she was MAD at Teddy for thinking it was so fun, she was mad at God for giving people a sense of smell...Sally Rally was MAD and she was NOT going to forget about it! *stompingofthecroc*

She was pretty much fuming. So I got down in front of her and asked if this grumpy grump was going to last all day.

"MissCammie I feel REALLY REALLY mad for being burped on. That grossed me out and I feel mad because this is DISNEY and that's rude and not appropriate and it was bathroom humor and TEDDY laughed at me and I think..."

*5 minutes go by*

"...and so I'm MAD!"

I think she was more annoyed that Teddy laughed at her for being so upset and I think he may have laughed a few more times in her face just to bug her, which was more the reason for the fumage.

So I made Sally a deal. It went like this:

"...I'm so MAD and I don't think it was FAIR for-"

"Sally"

"-Teddy to LAUGH at me because it was NOT funny and I-"

"Sally"

"-don't think that people should laugh at other people who are grossed out because it's not-"

"SALLY"

"-nice to laugh at people when they feel mad and I th-"

I put my hand very nicely over her mouth.

"Sally, I can tell that you are really ticked off. You are doing a very good job using your feeling words...but we need to figure out how to let this go. You are not hurt, you are not broken, you are not bleeding. I know you are upset at Teddy for laughing. I know you are upset with Stitch for not having better manners. It's okay to be mad. It's okay to let Stitch know how upset you are by never going on his ride again. It is NOT okay to spend the rest of the day fussing about having gone on this ride. It's hard for everyone else to have fun when one person is fussing and grumbling AND since you are NOT the only person in this family, you need to get the grumps out NOW and put this one to bed. Because if you can't put the issue to bed, I'm going to assume you need to put your body to bed. In which case I will call the "Super Boring, only There to Make Sure Kids Take All Day Long Naps" baby sitting service. Although I am pretty sure you can pull yourself together. *ahem* You have from now until we get to the snack stand to get your grumps totally out. Ready GO!"

I took my hand away from her mouth and threw an eye brow arch in for emphasis.

Jay had been over at a toy stand with Teddy. He came back over and I told him the plan! I was needing a Dole Whip like nobody's business. And Sally needed a time limit for her grumps to go away. She'll get stuck sometimes on one thing and she finds it VERY difficult to let it go. But giving her a set amount of time to fuss always gets us over the hump.

We started to head towards Aloha Isle...I was finding it very hard not to laugh as the stream of consciousness type tirade floated up from the inside of the kid transporter.

*that-was-so-disgusting-and-I-can-still-SMELL-it-and-it-crawled-in-my-hair-and-that- -teaches-kids-bad-manners-and-that-should-NOT-be-allowed-at-all-because-only-gross-
people-burp-in-people's-faces-and-I-am-really-mad-at-Mickey-for-even-letting-people-get
BURPED-ON-because-THAT-is-called-being-RUDE-and-...*

I don't blame her. It was gross.

By the time we got to Aloha Isle Sally was starting to wind down. I gave her a ten second warning and counted it down. Just to be clear.

When I got to one I heard the final declaration:

"-and-I-won't-EVER-even-watch-his-movie-or-tv-show-EVER-NEVER-AGAIN!"

Then there was silence.

Teddy poked his head out from under the shade flap.

"I think she's done MissCammie!"

Sally slapped him around with some dirty looks.

I got down in front of her and asked if she was ready freddy for a Popsicle!

She was. So was Teddy. Jay got in line for the Dole Whips :love: and I found the Itsakadoozie cart and got a couple.

When I was unwrapping Teddy's he said brightly

"COOL! I can spit like a rainbow...*sneaks a look to see if MissCammie heard..she did...:headache: * if I wouldn't get a time out for spitting I mean..."

*ahem*

:lmao:

Sally gave a long suffering sigh and turned herself as far as she could away from her totally annoying little brother.

She was having a ROUGH day!

Poor Sally...:sad1: ;)

But I couldn't think about any of that at the moment, because my husband was walking towards me with DOLE WHIPS!!!!:love: :love:

Oh how I love thee Dole Whip...let me count the ways!

A Dole Whip is happiness wrapped up in pinapple-y goodness!!! How's THAT for poetry?!

I love Dole Whips...a lot...almost more than Diet Coke...and Coach Bags...unless it's the holiday Patchwork Coach bags...in which case the Dole Whip would be a close second!!

did I get off topic again?

dangit.

Anyhow...we all settled down in a semi shady area to rest and get our sugar high on!!

The popsicles were a big hit with the kiddos. Teddy's face was relatively clean save for the rainbow smear next to his eyebrow...no clue how he managed THAT one. I had wrapped the popsicle stick with roughly 84,000 napkins, so his hand was staying clean...and the 50 napkins I'd fashioned into a popsicle drip catcher was working very well.

YES i have issues. We have established this...I am particularly disturbed by snacks that hang around on children's shirts long after the snack is gone. Makes me nuts. The children are very understanding of my insanity and love me anyhow. :flower3:

Sally was much cheered by her Itsakadoozie and she was actually smiling over her popsicle as we people watched.

We love to people watch. As I have mentioned before, Sally loves to watch for RULE BREAKERS! It gives her peace in moments of chaos.

She's pretty funny about it actually. Because she counts the rule breakers as they pass by. She'll get to five fingers and start again. She just sits silently and watches and the fingers go up as RULE BREAKERS drift into her view. (Rule Breakers are so labeled if they are breaking posted rules and/or common rules of polite society, OR rules that we have in our family. She judges people based on "if MissCammie or Daddy would allow that or not"...:lmao: )

I was watching her as she counted. She was letting go of the "mad" little by little. By the time the popsicles were done and the Dole Whips :love: were gone, Sally was feeling much more like her old self.

We packed up again and headed towards Toon Town.

"MissCammie..."

"Yes SallyRally"

"I counted 27 Rule Breakers while I was eating my popsicle."

"Wow...that's a lot..."

"I know. Parents need to do more punishing. Because then how else can they even stand their own kids?!"

"I don't know Sal..."

"Good thing we have manners right MissCammie?"

"Yep...sure is Sally."

Teddy decided he needed to add his thoughts...

"Because if we DIDN'T have MANNERS then we would have to sleep in the basement with the Invisible BEAR right MISSCAMMIE?!"

"Right Teddy."

*ahem*

On that note we headed into Toon Town! I was wanting to ride me some Goofy's Barnstormer!!! I'd heard tell it was a really fun roller coaster and I was hankering to try it out!!!

so of course it was "closed for maintenance"...

:mad:

After my inner Donald got his quack on, we decided to go to Minnie's House. Seeing as how Sally was close personal buds with Minnie we were sure to be welcomed on a GRAND scale!!

I really love Toon Town. It's serves as further proof that Mickey and Minnie DO exist and they live right there in the parks.

I was just about to comment on the adorable factor of Minnie's house when I heard Sally shout,

"MISS CAMMIE, COVER YOUR NOSE QUICK!!! DON'T BREATHE! DON'T BREATHE!!"

What? Cover my nose? Don't breathe? What on earth is the child talking about?! I was about to ask her just that when I was ASSAULTED by the most HORRIFIC smell I have ever encountered.

It was like we'd stumbled into a massive sewage break down for the whole of New York City.

Me being me, I had a massive gag attack. I threw a look at Jay who promptly announced,

"It was NOT me!"

:rolleyes: guilty conscience much?

From the kid transporter I heard Teddy declare that

"It smells like a bathroom that hasn't been cleaned for a MILLION years!"

to which Sally replied,

"A BOYS bathroom!"

Whenever Sally thinks something smells particularly bad she declares that it smells like a Boys Bathroom...b/c only such unspeakable smells would come from a boys bathroom. She's pretty much right...especially boys bathrooms in Canada...epcot Canada...

*ahem*

My eyes were watering and I was looking around to see if other people were noticing the horrifying smell of Death!

Yep...wrinkled noses abound.

In a desperate search for clean air, I abandoned my family and ran screaming from Toon Town...

not really, but I thought about it.

Actually, Sally jumped out of the Kid Transporter, grabbed my hand and said,

"Daddy we are going to Minnie's house. Where it smells nice. Like GIRLS."

Sally gave my hand a yank and said,

"Come on MissCammie, let's run! I'll tell you when you can breathe!!"

I'll tell y'all what...that Sally has GOT MY BACK!!! or my nose in this case!

We ran towards Minnie's house and hopefully some clean air.

Once we made it to the porch of Minnie's house Sally took a teeny test breath and announced it safe to breathe.

She gave a look around the porch and said,

"MissCammie...I think Stitch followed us to Toon Town..."

:lmao:

Up Next: The Search for FASHION in Toon Town!
 
Very funny update!!! Lots of different smells going on that day.:lmao: I do agree with Sally that the burp in Stitch Escape is pretty gross!!! Can't wait for more.:)
 

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