Chicago area Diser's - check in here Part 3

[SamIAm21]

It's supposed to snow on Monday, New Year's Day.

Honestly, I think the theater is a nice idea, but I thought the food was pretty blah, the theater was "trashed" when we walked in there (and we were supposed to be the first showing of the evening ). There was popcorn and paper containers everywhere and it just didn't "strike me" as being a clean type of place. I had nachos, which were kinda bad. Dan had wings that he said were good, but not great and Megan had chicken fingers and fries, which were plentiful, if not a little "ordinary". But what more can you say about chicken fingers right? I know we all got appetizers, but Dan had taken me out to lunch and we were still full from that, so we didn't want a big dinner.

I also didn't care for eating in the dark -- that weirded me out. Nachos wasn't the best choice of "dishes" to order for eating in the dark either. So, that was my fault. I would probably go back and just have pizza or something. I would wait for spring or summer to go back too because that drive is something else. It was either a dark road or we were packed up in holiday traffic. It got a little nerve wracking!!

We took a wrong turn coming off the bridge into Lemont and ended up near Romeoville. Sheesh! Don't ask me!

 

[HERSEY]

Slo You're staying at my fav resort!

Alex and I are going to see if we can swing a trip in 2007 too. I'm hoping the Tax Gods take mercy on my soul.

 

[Bunchkin]

hersey I hope you get to go to WDW too!!
I hope the Tax Gods are nice too....for all of us!!!! Our business got hit hard last year!!!

Sam I am really suprised to hear that the theatre was in such shabby shape. We've never been there and seen it like that. What a shame! Their servers are the slowest though! I'll have to clue you in on the short cut around traffic to go there!

 

[Crissup]

Just got back from WDW earlier this month, and right now, no WDW trip planned for 2007. This would be the first year in many that we haven't done WDW. Instead, we're flying to Barcelona to board the Magic on July 18th for the 10 night mediteranian cruise!!

For anyone who's interested, I just got our December 2006 photos posted online in my Disney gallery (http://disney.crissup.com/).

Hope everyone has a phenominal New Year!! Don't party too much, but if you do, be sure and show me the pictures.

 

[slo]

Hi all - I'm enjoying my nice quiet house

Katie is napping.

Kevin and Stephanie are out running errands

I just got done mopping my disqusting kitchen floor - yuck!!!

Next I am planning on folding some laundry



Bunchkin - Your itinerary looks great I can't get over how early you are leaving - how does your mom feel about that? I think my mom would have killed me if I said we were leaving that early - she's not to happy about the 6am Hopefully we'll see you at The Contemporary Friday night - I'll look for you!!!!

Sam - Give us a review of that book when you are done reading it. If it's good, I'll put it on my Mother's Day gift list

macraven - Me and you are doing the same activities today

HERSEY - I've never stayed at The WL before and I'm really looking forward to it I sure hope you can get there in 2007 - I'll send some PD your way to make that happen

Crissup - I started looking at your pictures, and they are great!!!! I can hardly wait to finish looking at the rest later.


Well, my laundry is calling, "Come fold me!! Come fold me!!!"

Later Gaters!!!!

 

[roseprincess]

Hi all-
I guess I'm in a depressed mood today.
Ok vent time:
I had mentioned a few days ago that Chrissy was pretty sick for 2 days. She is doing better. But no one on our thread aknowleged with a hug or something that she was sick. I wrote about it on pg 812. I know it was about the time the Disboards went down. But I still wrote it. Now, why didn't anyone aknowledge Chrissy being sick and glad she's better??
I am concerned for people on our Chicago thread here.
I have the love of Disney like everyone else here, just can't afford to go.
I guess it depresses me that no one here aknowleged that Chrissy was sick.

I have another vent. I know this is a place to talk about upcoming Disney trips, past trips, future trips, etc. as well as stuff going on in our lives.
I just want to say it is sometimes very hard for me to read about the excitement of people's upcoming trips on our thread as well as other threads I happen to read. I guess I shouldn't read them, I suppose. My heart right now is crying to go on a Disney trip or anywhere. My DH says he would like to go to WDW again, but says we can't afford it, which we really can't I pray so hard we can win a trip via the online sweepstakes I enter, etc. About 3yrs ago, my mom did something pretty nasty. She gave false promises to Chrissy and Matthew, over the phone that she was going to pay for a Disney trip for both of them. The kids got real excited- thinking they were going. Well when I got the phone with my mom, she tells me"Oh, I can only pay $100 towards your trip for 4, you guys pay the rest!" I was very livid she did this to us, as she knew we didn't have a few thousand $$ to go. I did a huge search for Make-A-Wish foundation a few weeks after this incident happened. I referred Chrissy for a wish trip and due to her life-threateneing illness- her heart, Chrissy qualified for the wish, for which we were extremely blessed!
Anyways, I guess I'm venting b/c we still don't have money for a trip, according to DH. He doesn't get paid as much as he should be for the job he is doing. I know, you guys will want me to check the Budget board, which I do quite often.

Anyways, just venting here as I am kinda grumpy with all of you that can afford these vacations, etc. How do you all pay for these vacations? Really, I want to know! Do you go into credit card debt, do you save 1$ a day for a few yrs for the WDW trip? Do your parents pay for the trip? I know what I'm asking is personal, but how do you pay for all these trips??

And all of you that have little kids,elementary age kids, etc. That's great your parents watch your kids for a few days while you go on vacation. Consider yourself extremely blessed, b/c my parents will only take my kids overnight for 1 night/ yr and that's it. Dh and I cannot go a few days away anywhere w/out the kids. Have no one to watch them.

Sorry for my venting, but just very upset right now. As I am home with the kids by myself for a few days, dh is at work. He doesn't get any days off except for Christmas Day and New Years day. No vacation time, since he only gets 10 days/ yr of vacation/ yr total. He only gets 3 paid sick days/yr.
His work used to be off MLK day in Jan and President's Day in Feb, but not anymore. The head honchos took those off holidays away for 2007, so he doesn't get those holidays off anymore. They won't even substitute personal days for them, which makes me very upset. Now we really have to ration his vacation days for 2007, as he hardly gets any, just the 10 days/yr.

 

[roseprincess]

Disneynut- I know you don't post here often, but I remember a couple of weeks back you said one or both of your kids were sick, hope they are doing better

Macraven- keep us posted on how your parents are doing and your son in Mexico.

Jedi- hope you are doing well.

Tiggerrn- keep us posted how your MIL is doing, with the surgery on her thumb.

 

[macraven]

Hi all-
I guess I'm in a depressed mood today.
Ok vent time:
I had mentioned a few days ago that Chrissy was pretty sick for 2 days. She is doing better. But no one on our thread aknowleged with a hug or something that she was sick. I wrote about it on pg 812. I know it was about the time the Disboards went down. But I still wrote it. Now, why didn't anyone aknowledge Chrissy being sick and glad she's better??
I am concerned for people on our Chicago thread here.
I have the love of Disney like everyone else here, just can't afford to go.
I guess it depresses me that no one here aknowleged that Chrissy was sick.
.

rose marie, i am very sorry i did not make any comment to you on the board or send you a pm about chrissy.

i realize i was wrong and would like to apologize to correct his situation.
please forgive me.
i guess i just wasn't thinking staight.

i do know when a child is sick the mom suffers just as much or even more than the child does.

i feel very ashamed i did not post until now about it.

you have every right to feel neglected. we all goofed on this one.

i will try to be more attentive in the future. i really will try. give us another chance and don't let it depress you anymore.

i see the problem and want to make it right.

how is chrissy doing now? is she at the point where she can enjoy the christmas school break now?

i know you mentioned it was not possible to get her into the doctor's office. when you posted that, i felt like, well, time to change doctors.......but then, you are a nurse and have a great knowledge in medicine so i assumed you would know what to do if antibiotics were not needed.

again, i am sorry i overlooked you.

and i hope i don't neglect anyone else on this thread.

 

[slo]

Hi all-
I guess I'm in a depressed mood today.
Ok vent time:
I had mentioned a few days ago that Chrissy was pretty sick for 2 days. She is doing better. But no one on our thread aknowleged with a hug or something that she was sick. I wrote about it on pg 812. I know it was about the time the Disboards went down. But I still wrote it. Now, why didn't anyone aknowledge Chrissy being sick and glad she's better??
I am concerned for people on our Chicago thread here.
I have the love of Disney like everyone else here, just can't afford to go.
I guess it depresses me that no one here aknowleged that Chrissy was sick.

I have another vent. I know this is a place to talk about upcoming Disney trips, past trips, future trips, etc. as well as stuff going on in our lives.
I just want to say it is sometimes very hard for me to read about the excitement of people's upcoming trips on our thread as well as other threads I happen to read. I guess I shouldn't read them, I suppose. My heart right now is crying to go on a Disney trip or anywhere. My DH says he would like to go to WDW again, but says we can't afford it, which we really can't I pray so hard we can win a trip via the online sweepstakes I enter, etc. About 3yrs ago, my mom did something pretty nasty. She gave false promises to Chrissy and Matthew, over the phone that she was going to pay for a Disney trip for both of them. The kids got real excited- thinking they were going. Well when I got the phone with my mom, she tells me"Oh, I can only pay $100 towards your trip for 4, you guys pay the rest!" I was very livid she did this to us, as she knew we didn't have a few thousand $$ to go. I did a huge search for Make-A-Wish foundation a few weeks after this incident happened. I referred Chrissy for a wish trip and due to her life-threateneing illness- her heart, Chrissy qualified for the wish, for which we were extremely blessed!
Anyways, I guess I'm venting b/c we still don't have money for a trip, according to DH. He doesn't get paid as much as he should be for the job he is doing. I know, you guys will want me to check the Budget board, which I do quite often.

Anyways, just venting here as I am kinda grumpy with all of you that can afford these vacations, etc. How do you all pay for these vacations? Really, I want to know! Do you go into credit card debt, do you save 1$ a day for a few yrs for the WDW trip? Do your parents pay for the trip? I know what I'm asking is personal, but how do you pay for all these trips??

And all of you that have little kids,elementary age kids, etc. That's great your parents watch your kids for a few days while you go on vacation. Consider yourself extremely blessed, b/c my parents will only take my kids overnight for 1 night/ yr and that's it. Dh and I cannot go a few days away anywhere w/out the kids. Have no one to watch them.

Sorry for my venting, but just very upset right now. As I am home with the kids by myself for a few days, dh is at work. He doesn't get any days off except for Christmas Day and New Years day. No vacation time, since he only gets 10 days/ yr of vacation/ yr total. He only gets 3 paid sick days/yr.
His work used to be off MLK day in Jan and President's Day in Feb, but not anymore. The head honchos took those off holidays away for 2007, so he doesn't get those holidays off anymore. They won't even substitute personal days for them, which makes me very upset. Now we really have to ration his vacation days for 2007, as he hardly gets any, just the 10 days/yr.

I'm sorry!!!!

 

[roseprincess]

Mac- Thanks for your concern Chrissy has been doing better since Sat. afternoon. She still has the sniffles, but doing alot better. I mentioned it I think on page 813 that she was doing better. Don't worry, I'm not upset with you at all. Just depressed over a few things.
Depressed about my dh's job, depressed we don't have money for a Disneyvacation, my mom lecturing me yest. about a cousin, not to talk to this and that cousin, etc. Just disfunctional family stuff.

Your concern was much appreciated tho

 

[macraven]

Hi all-

And all of you that have little kids,elementary age kids, etc. That's great your parents watch your kids for a few days while you go on vacation. Consider yourself extremely blessed, b/c my parents will only take my kids overnight for 1 night/ yr and that's it. Dh and I cannot go a few days away anywhere w/out the kids. Have no one to watch them.

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miss rose, we are in the same boat.
i had 3 boys withing 4 years and 7 months from start to finish.
i never had a hand in help with them.
we had to move 3 times when we lived in the city of chgo as the apartments we were in did not allow children, or only allowed one.....so we had to move each year almost.

no family either side lives near us. or did they ever want to help out.
my boys did not see grandparents until they were one year old and then only saw them 3 times before they started school. none of the gparents were interested in grandchildren.

so, i know how you feel. we never had help. only help we had was from our church when i was about to deliver another child. one lady helped watch the others when i gave birth each time and that was for a limited time period of 2 days. mr mac had to take off work to handle the boys at home.

we have never had a holiday with a relative.
that's just how it always has been. we are used to it now.

never gift giving between relatives, but the exchange of a family christmas card has been about it.

there are some families like that.
i think you and i got the short stick in life when it comes to the relatives....
lol

when we did vacation, we took all the boys and camped. we only did camping 4 times and that was enough for us. i hated camping but it was the only way we could do a trip. those trips would be for 3 nights on the ground. thinking back, i wouldn't do it again. do you know what it is like to have two in diapers and have to cook over a campfire 3 or 4 times a day..........more work than it was at home. we didn't take a vacation away from the kids until they were either out of college or in college.

mr mac worked two jobs from the time we had our first son and that continued until 1996. i know how it goes having to do it all with a daddy working from early morning and coming home at 11 at night.

you hang in there rosemarie, it will get better as the kids get older.
not everyone has people to help with the kids.
and not everyone takes vacations away from the kids.

 

[roseprincess]

I'm sorry!!!!

Thanks, slo

 

[roseprincess]

miss rose, we are in the same boat.
i had 3 boys withing 4 years and 7 months from start to finish.
i never had a hand in help with them.
we had to move 3 times when we lived in the city of chgo as the apartments we were in did not allow children, or only allowed one.....so we had to move each year almost.

no family either side lives near us. or did they ever want to help out.
my boys did not see grandparents until they were one year old and then only saw them 3 times before they started school. none of the gparents were interested in grandchildren.

so, i know how you feel. we never had help. only help we had was from our church when i was about to deliver another child. one lady helped watch the others when i gave birth each time and that was for a limited time period of 2 days. mr mac had to take off work to handle the boys at home.

we have never had a holiday with a relative.
that's just how it always has been. we are used to it now.

never gift giving between relatives, but the exchange of a family christmas card has been about it.

there are some families like that.
i think you and i got the short stick in life when it comes to the relatives....
lol

when we did vacation, we took all the boys and camped. we only did camping 4 times and that was enough for us. i hated camping but it was the only way we could do a trip. those trips would be for 3 nights on the ground. thinking back, i wouldn't do it again. do you know what it is like to have two in diapers and have to cook over a campfire 3 or 4 times a day..........more work than it was at home. we didn't take a vacation away from the kids until they were either out of college or in college.

mr mac worked two jobs from the time we had our first son and that continued until 1996. i know how it goes having to do it all with a daddy working from early morning and coming home at 11 at night.

you hang in there rosemarie, it will get better as the kids get older.
not everyone has people to help with the kids.
and not everyone takes vacations away from the kids.

Mac, I'm sorry you had to go thru all that
It is nice to know other people here can only afford camping trips,too.

My parents will help only if one of us is in the hospital. When Chrissy was in her first 4 months with hte first heart surgery and systemic infection, my mom only babysat Matthew a handful of times while we visitied Chrissy at the hosp. When I was in the hospital the summer of 1998 with the pancreatitis I was in the hosp a full month. Dh was home with the kids at the time, and we had to rely on friends from church ,too. To watch Chrissy and Matthew at our place. My mom did take a week off of work when I had my gallbladder surgery- and I had to have conventional surgery with staples- not laproscopic surgery.
I guess my parents watch the kids here and there, but not that often, as my mom complains about watching them over a few hours. We do have a sitter if dh and I want to go on a date night once in a great while.
I don't have any brothers or sisters,I'm an only child, so I cannot rely on a brother or sister to watch them. Dh's family don't want much to do with my kids. As a child, we hardly ever went on vacations, either, as my parents didn't believe in vacations at the time- according to my mom.

 

[macraven]

rosemarie, i never had help and didn't miss it.

i had my kids and took care of them 100% and have never regretted it.
it was just a way of life for me. if i went to the doctor, the boys went with.

when i had surgeries, mr mac and the 3 boys would go to the hospital with me to check me in and then they would have to leave.
when it was time to check out, they all came back to get me.

i just accepted it from the start. it made it a lot easier for us.
i look back now and can't imagine how i got through it all.
it is a like a dream and happened a life time ago.

if i lived closer, i would love to give you a hand and help you out with the kids. i wouldn't mind watching them so you and mr rose princess could go out.

 

[HERSEY]

Rose Life is what you make of it. If it throws lemons at you make lemonade. Never once have I ever sat around and waited for things to come to me. It is just Alex and I, My Dad died when Alex was just a baby, my grandparents both within that same year. And now this past year my Step Mom died. Life is crappy for everyone at one time or another. Don't be jealous of someone else taking a trip that you can't. I have taken on a part time job that I do out of my home to give me extra income. Maybe we will take a vacation or maybe we won't But that is my decision. You have to learn to let go what you can't control. There is much in life that's not in my control. Yes I know hard to believe. Things will get better if you allow it to get better.

 

[jedi_librarian]

Rose - I'm sorry you feel that you were overlooked. I read most of the posts, and I do remember reading about Chrissy, and other things others wrote, but I don't always reply. Many times, I don't even have time to read the boards or post long replies. I do a lot of my dissing at work and sometimes I'll be reading and a patron will ask for help and by the time I come back, I've forgotten what I was doing and don't come back to the boards until later and by then I've forgotten what I was going to write. By the time I come home from work, the last thing I want to do is be on the computer again (dang it! The crazy smiley is gone!!!) I do care about everything written on the boards and I do appreciate that we are all here for each other, but many times, I just like to keep to myself and not talk too much about the things I'm going through, so I just "hang back" a little and just pop in to say Hi. I'm glad to see that Chrissy is doing better though


As far as trips go, the Ladies-only trip is the only big WDW trip I've ever been on and I probably won't go for a long time again. I mostly found this board to plan my little side trips to DL when DH and I would go to California. I don't get to go on many trips, either, but I think it's unfair to feel grumpy towards others that do After all, people come on the DIS boards to plan trips and share their excitement with others who understand There are things I get frustrated with, too, as you do. My frustration is with home ownership. My friends who are my age mostly all own their own homes while I still rent. They're able to do it for whatever reasons that I don't have, and sometimes I feel depressed when we hang out and they're all talking about "home-owning" issues, while here I am renting (and separated and childless ), but as Hersey said, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, and make the best out of it.

 

[roseprincess]

rosemarie, i never had help and didn't miss it.

i had my kids and took care of them 100% and have never regretted it.
it was just a way of life for me. if i went to the doctor, the boys went with.

when i had surgeries, mr mac and the 3 boys would go to the hospital with me to check me in and then they would have to leave.
when it was time to check out, they all came back to get me.

i just accepted it from the start. it made it a lot easier for us.
i look back now and can't imagine how i got through it all.
it is a like a dream and happened a life time ago.

if i lived closer, i would love to give you a hand and help you out with the kids. i wouldn't mind watching them so you and mr rose princess could go out.

Awww, thank Mac . But I'm doing ok. Chrissy has been sleeping in in the mornings. I've been surviving well this week. Just frustrated with dH not being home during the day so we can do something as a family. He is home right now. He is off Sat, Sun, and Monday(New Years Day). We have a few things going on this weekend.
Chrissy is back to her old self, as she likes to hit me, when Dh is not home. We bought her a punching bag for Christmas. One of those bop things that you punch and it comes back up. I kid you not. I try to give her time-outs when I feel it is really necessary. As you know, she is a daddy's girl

 

[macraven]

hahahahahha....my kids had those bounce bags.


chrissy will love that .

it is fun, i even played with them but i got my my knees to make it fair for the boys when i had my turn.

 

[roseprincess]

Thanks Hersey and Jedi- for your concern

Slo- I PM'd you.

Ok I feel better. Just I needed to vent to get some things off my chest.
I'm sure I'll feel much better about all this tomorrow.

Thanks for listening

Thank you all that responded, for your concern about Chrissy.
I and Chrissy do appreciate your concern for her

 

[roseprincess]

Rose -
My frustration is with home ownership. My friends who are my age mostly all own their own homes while I still rent. They're able to do it for whatever reasons that I don't have, and sometimes I feel depressed when we hang out and they're all talking about "home-owning" issues, while here I am renting (and separated and childless ),

I'm sorry, jedi