anyone feel as blessed as I do?

[emmak]

Kudos Rae.

Imgoingtodisney...
No one is asking you to fall on your knees and worship the Disney Cruise Line...the suggestion was to just take a moment to realize the blessings in your life and the opportunities you have been given in this lifetime. Whether or not you choose to make the most of those opportunities is your choice.
Somehow I think you must feel blessed or why would you choose the name "imgoingtodisney"? It must bring you some joy and happiness to visit WDW and DCL. If so, then you are blessed that you are able to travel without limitations.
You have no idea what could happen in a split second to change every happiness in your life and deprive you of any and all opportunity.
Whether or not you are a religious or spiritual person, there are things that you must feel thankful for. You said you are blessed to have your son, therefore you are also blessed to be able to travel with him and experience what life has to offer.
It must be a terrible thing to go through life without being able to appreciate what you have and not to realize that so many others do not have food, water, health or family.
I, for one, am thankful to have parents and a grandmother who love me unconditionally, a husband who supports our family so I can be at home with our children, two healthy kids who I would sacrifice everything for, friends who accept me with all of my faults and most importantly faith to get me through any obstacles that are thrown my way.
Peace to all and have a wonderful vacation, Make Memories!!!!!!!

 

[buzz&woody'smom]

I'm Going to Disney-

You continue to amaze me over the last 5 months with your bleak and selfish attitude of your life, DCL and the world. You have no idea what NOT being blessed is! If you think you are not blessed because DCL cancelled your cruise then I suggest you turn on CNN and see whom is blessed and who is not.

I guaranty the 100 plus Service men and women who have lost their lives for this country don't feel blessed nor do their families. I would bet Laci Peterson's family is not feeling blessed right now. I would venture there are 1 plus million children alone in the USA that are being abused or living with out adequate food, clothing or shelter. I would bet if you visited any children's cancer ward those little darlings would be fighting for their lives but their parents don't feel blessed.

The original poster intention was stating "we are so lucky to be blessed enough to be able to do something so wonderful". Just because your cruise was cancelled your life went to hell in a hand basket? Get a grip!

My motto is "if you have life you have choices". From what you have shared with us you are still devastated over your cruise being cancelled??? I do not know how to make you get it.........what if the cruise was cancelled bc your son was in a accident or you or your DH were diagnosed with a terminal disease. That is the time to get upset not bc of a cruise being cancelled bc of the Norwalk virus. That was bad luck but forgiveable and fixable.

Lady, I am 33 and I have been through hell and back in the last 5 years. I have Marine for a husband, I have melanoma skin cancer, I had a near fatal aneurysm while 36 weeks pregnant which took my son and I within a inch of our lives and I feel BLESSED. I have a body and head full of bad memories and pain and fear but I am alive.

That is what matters I am safe and alive. My children are clean, safe, pretty healthy and fed that is what matters. There are so many others out there who are dying, have died, are being abused or starving, homeless and countless other sad situations.

It is nice we get to go on DCL cruises but real people know that is a perk to life for which we feel blessed not something to which we are entitled.

I have asked and prayed and wished for you at least a dozen times in the past to move on. Focus on what you have, how you are blessed to be able to go on vacations, live in a democratic nation, have food and let go of one bad thing that happened. If the rest of us focused on the bad things this world would be a sad place not one of hope for our children.

You make me so very sad...................

 

[Jeanne434]

Just read my original post- I didn't mention "luck" anywhere. In fact the post asked people to count their blessings- not tally up their luck. I have had a life of hardship and struggle- I would probably not be considered by many "lucky" in any sort of traditional sense.
8 Disney vacations ought to have you counting numerous blessings. You must (or at least hoefully do) have wonderful and heart warming memories of those special times spent with special people. That is the way you count those blessings- in the memories you have. Few have these oppurtunity.
Soften your heart and think about it.

 

[AnnMorin]

IMGTD- not sure why you deleted your last post, right when I tried to quote you it disapeared.. good choice though since it was ridiculous- since you deleted it I won't quote you but surfice to say I think you need help.
Also you are correct when I counted your trips I did include your DVC purchase and pay off and your NCL cruise,,(things that people who are blessed with good fortune can afford) I don't know why you would not count the last trip as a Disney trip just because you didn't go on the cruise- you did spend a week at Disney.
Frankly I feel sorry for you and am so thankfull for my life and that I have the ability to appreciate it.

 

[Verandah Man]

Jeanne,

I feel very blessed by you. I just received the video in the mail that you copied for me Tuesday night. I feel blessed because you would not accept any $$ for doing this. I feel blessed because of the friendships that I have made on the DISboards, and I'm going to feel very blessed in a few minutes as I sit in my warm and comfortable home and watch the video.

Thanks Again Jeanne and have a MAGICal cruise!!!

Andy

 

[OkieDisney]

YOU all make me feel blessed!!!!

Cheers!!!

 

[ncligs]

Originally posted by AnnMorin
IMGTD- not sure why you deleted your last post, right when I tried to quote you it disapeared.. good choice though since it was ridiculous- since you deleted it I won't quote you but surfice to say I think you need help.

IMGTD has a "history" of DELETING her own posts..........if she can't take the heat .

......stay out of the kitchen (don't post).

 

[I Luv Disney Cruise]

Even though I had a miscarriage in December and that I am pregnant now with twins but one didn't make it last week, I still very blessed to have family, friends, my job, my husbands job, very nice home, 1 baby still growing inside me, the fact that my husband and I are fortunate enough to be able to afford to go on these Disney cruises and most of all that I have God in my life.

 

[lbgraves]

I haven't been on these boards long & don't know the details about the cancelled cruise but did hear about everything happening on the news. If I had been on the cruise that was cancelled for health reasons, I would be disappointed of course. However, I would be greatful after that passed that a company like Disney put profit aside for the health of their customers. Taking that cruise & getting sick would have been far worse for my family...especially my children.

I've always believed that everything happens for a reason & you have to make the best of the situation or you will never be happy. For example, I graduated in 3 years from college & after a year long process was accepted into Naval OCS for Intel & Russian Linguistics. This was my dream! I was waiting for my plane ticket at 2 weeks out from my start date & had most of my possessions packed up for the crew to come & move them to my first duty station after I had completed all my schooling. A call came that the class had been delayed & it seemed as if the bottom fell out of my world. I was totally lost about what I was going to do with my life since the prior 2 years had all lead up to that point. I pulled myself up, found a place to live with a family that needed a live in nanny, moved with them to NO for a year and had a great experience there that I would never have been able to do otherwise. The Cold War ended the the Gulf War started...both of which lessened the need for new intel officers. Add to that an ovarian cyst which became a major health issue for me & I decided to take an honorable discharge.

When all is said & done, I would never have met DH & we wouldn't have DD & DS if I had gone on with OCS as I originally hoped. Sorry, but IMO a vacation is pretty trivial when compared to the life & death situations facing so many today. Several of our friends have DHs deployed in Iraq. There have been cancelled vacations, moves...one woman is due to have their 2nd child next month and now they do not know if her DH will be home...another girl has had to postpone her wedding this month because her DF's deployment was extended.

In the end, life is what you make it. It can be happy & joyous or dismal and bleak. I choose to try to have the first.

 

[rae519]

I think we have covered everything....and even with the challenges life has thrown in our paths, we all realize that yes, we are blessed.

Heck, some of you know my story about the little dog I found wandering in the street two weeks ago - "Annie"...
well, after a $706.00 vet bill because dear "Annie" had parvo virus (highly contagious and usually fatal), she has recovered and now we learned that she needs hip surgery because of an old injury that she had somewhere along the line that was never treated...

So am I lucky? Unlucky? Cursed? Blessed?

I am grateful that I found Annie before she was killed in the traffic. I am grateful that my family and I have a kind heart and the financial ability to care for a stray dog. And for whatever reason God (or whatever Higher Power you believe in) has put her into our lives, I feel lucky AND blessed!!!

Still feeling happy and lucky and blessed!

Rae

 

[AnnMorin]

And you chose such a great name for her Rae
Pets, like children, can be a challange but oh such a blessing- I love it when I come home from a tough day and Chelsea is always thrilled to see me.. nothing but unconditional love from my little puppers- now only if DS and DH would always be so thrilled with me

 

[rae519]

Thanks Ann! I didn't think of you when I named her, pal - I was thinking of "Little Orphan Annie"! We did find out that she is a purebred Pomeranian, black and whites are called Parti Poms and are very rare. She is between 6 and 8 years old, very poor health, needs to be fattened up and loved up!!

I could tell you what I'd like to do with the selfish evil person who claimed that he owned her but then I'd be censored and banned from the boards! But does FISHBAIT sound good to you?!

Rae

 

[Verandah Man]

I just now finished watching a video that was sent to me from Jeanne of the May 3rd cruise. It was a copy of the Travel Channel Cruise Week, DCL episode from this past Tueday night. It just got me more excited for our August 23rd cruise. I tend to be an sentimental and emotional person, and when I saw the family entering the ship and being welcomed aboard, I started filling up. I was picturing my family walking on for the first time, I'm excited just trying to type this post.

I can't wait until my DW and DD come home from their "SHOPPING" trip so they can watch the video with me.

Another reason I feel blessed this Good Friday, we are in the process of doing a mortgage refi and will be adding MB DVC Points in the very near future. It was kind of funny, on Wednesday my DW and I were talking about adding on, later that night our DVC Guide called us, from out of the "blue."

In Thursday's mail we received a mailing about doing a mortgage refi, we called the company this morning and got the paperwork started. With the refi(monthly mortgage payment savings), it will more than cover the 100 points we have decided to add on, yet, one more blessing to be "THANKFUL" for!!!

Thanks again Jeanne, that smile on my face is from "Ear to Ear!!!"

 

[AnnMorin]

Originally posted by rae519
Thanks Ann! I didn't think of you when I named her, pal - I was thinking of "Little Orphan Annie"! We did find out that she is a purebred Pomeranian, black and whites are called Parti Poms and are very rare. She is between 6 and 8 years old, very poor health, needs to be fattened up and loved up!!

I could tell you what I'd like to do with the selfish evil person who claimed that he owned her but then I'd be censored and banned from the boards! But does FISHBAIT sound good to you?!

Rae

how about fox food? The kitts must be done with the plowman by now

 

[rae519]

More points, Andy?! My word, has it hit you also? I just sent in my contract and escrow deposit for 100 point add on at Vero Beach!

Of course, Disney has first right of refusal but guess what, even if they do refuse, I am still blessed because that means something better is going to come my way!!!!

Ann- Fox food? Naw, that's too good for him!! But I do know someone else.......


Rae

 

[Verandah Man]

Originally posted by rae519
More points, Andy?! My word, has it hit you also? I just sent in my contract and escrow deposit for 100 point add on at Vero Beach!

Of course, Disney has first right of refusal but guess what, even if they do refuse, I am still blessed because that means something better is going to come my way!!!!

Ann- Fox food? Naw, that's too good for him!! But I do know someone else.......


Rae

Yes, the add on bug is visiting us here in New Jersey as well, but, this is a bug, I don't mind getting, LOL!!!

 

[rae519]

I just have to add this to our "blessed" list ;;;;;


I am very blessed that verandaman (Andy) is 1 month older than I am so that he will turn 50 before I do!!!!!!

Rae

 

[Hannosmom]

Rae, I'm so glad to hear about your Annie, I had been following your saga and was wondering how things were going. I'm glad someone so loving, like you, found that poor puppy.

Fishbait is too good for him!

Linda (too many blessings in this life to mention )

 

[Verandah Man]

Originally posted by rae519
I just have to add this to our "blessed" list ;;;;;


I am very blessed that verandaman (Andy) is 1 month older than I am so that he will turn 50 before I do!!!!!!

Rae

I'm so blessed that I am one month older then Rae, because she "MUST" respect her elders. Meaning, I am in front of her in the shrimp line, and no pulling that "ladies before gentlemen" quote either, because I know you would try using it, LOL!!!

 

[ncligs]

Originally posted by Verandah Man
I'm so blessed that I am one month older then Rae, because she "MUST" respect her elders. Meaning, I am in front of her in the shrimp line, and no pulling that ladies before men quote either, because I know you would try using it, LOL!!!