cosmicmommy
Out of This World Mom
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- May 11, 2016
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Hi, I am Ginger and I'm a 32 year old single mom to three boys who will still be "Disney children" for our January 2017 trip. I would like to say I have been planning this trip since this January, but truth be told, I have been planning this trip from the moment I left Disney World in 1998, just before my Freshman year of high school. I have been throwing around ideas of a dream trip since 2008 when my oldest son was born and the desire to make the venture grew with the birth of each of my kids. Sadly, all my plans of grandeur and a "great big, beautiful tomorrow" trip crashed and burned with my divorce in January 2013. I suddenly found myself raising three kids on a stay-at-home-mom salary and we moved in with my parents. We were making it and swimming above water, but there was no room for extras - with a 9 month old, 2 year old and 4 year old, Disney would have to go to the back burner for an undetermined amount of time. Flash forward to three years later - my boys are old enough that two are in school and the youngest is potty-trained, so I am able to return to work and start dreaming of Disney again. Then I started to crunch numbers and realized that my dream could be a reality. I could now afford to take my boys to Disney and thus the planning began in earnest.
I am an over-planner by design. I make outlines of plans, then rough drafts of plans - then I revise the rough draft and then I completely switch things up and add in things I had never even considered prior. Then I continue to revise until the day of whatever I have been planning - and then I make changes on the fly if I find a better option. When I say that I plan, I mean that I jot down every imaginable detail that could possibly pertain to any aspect of the trip. I am the definition of an uber-planner. I am that crazy person who has Christmas presents purchased in June and Halloween costumes bought for NEXT year on November 10th. I have always been this way and have found it serves me well. My friends joke that I missed my calling in life as a travel agent and/or a teacher. I currently have a 20-page document for this trip that outlines every penny I may need to complete my touring plan and it is in its fourth incarnation at the moment. This will be the last edition of the touring plan, though it will likely still see many revisions before implementation. I am also braving a trip of me and the three - one adult with three rambunctious little boys, so it's going to be a strategically planned trip that is likely going to be executed seat-of-our-pants style.
I am an over-planner by design. I make outlines of plans, then rough drafts of plans - then I revise the rough draft and then I completely switch things up and add in things I had never even considered prior. Then I continue to revise until the day of whatever I have been planning - and then I make changes on the fly if I find a better option. When I say that I plan, I mean that I jot down every imaginable detail that could possibly pertain to any aspect of the trip. I am the definition of an uber-planner. I am that crazy person who has Christmas presents purchased in June and Halloween costumes bought for NEXT year on November 10th. I have always been this way and have found it serves me well. My friends joke that I missed my calling in life as a travel agent and/or a teacher. I currently have a 20-page document for this trip that outlines every penny I may need to complete my touring plan and it is in its fourth incarnation at the moment. This will be the last edition of the touring plan, though it will likely still see many revisions before implementation. I am also braving a trip of me and the three - one adult with three rambunctious little boys, so it's going to be a strategically planned trip that is likely going to be executed seat-of-our-pants style.
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