Dave Ramseying to Disney!Some final thoughts 8/18

[999ghostslover]

Congratulations on the new job!

Thank you so much!!

CONGRATULATIONS!! That is so very cool! It is my dream to be a certified nurse midwife or mother/baby nurse! I had trouble deciding what to do when I went to college, and I ended up with a teaching degree. After teaching a few years, I knew I made the wrong choice but I was going to stay home with my kids anyway, so it didn't matter. Once I'm done having kids (and, like you, it seems to happen to me a lot!), I plan on fast-tracking my nursing degree since I already have a bachelors. I would love for you to tell me all the ins and outs sometime!

I have a bachelors in fine arts that I got the traditional way. Almost right after graduation I started taking some nursing pre-reqs while working. Then after Abby was born I finished that second bachelors going semi full-time. I felt very called to it. I have always wanted to get my masters as a CNM but Alabama does not allow home births or birth center births and the doctors block them out of hospitals. I had to go really far away to have a birth at the only hospital in the area with a midwife and the hospital was so bad that I didn't do it for the other two births. When I was younger I was ready to fight the good fight and I went to the capital and tried march and went to midwife meeting but now, meh. It is still really important and I know we can change this state one day but younger and more dedicated women will have to pick up the slack. Right now, I am just too busy.
I want to focus on breastfeeding education and would love to become a lactation consultant. That is something this state desperately needs too and it is a more marketable skill.
But you should totally go for it! Georgia is a great state for all kinds of CNMs and you will love it. If I thought we would move somewhere where CNMs are accepted I would really consider it again.

 

[brookelizabeth]

Wow. I had never heard of IP until we moved here. Tom always talked about taking the kids canoeing, camping etc. but never really has time for it. Well, IP has helped him make time. They both love it so much. We are going to have to drop cheerleading next year but we are all okay with that. It has been busy but we are about to hit a lull after this weekend that should last until about Thanksgiving/Christmas time. We'll see though!

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago - but it wasn't in Minnesota where we lived at all and I haven't a clue if anything like that is in NYC, I would assume not... (good thing we have a boy! )

As for a 2 TS place, I've heard wonderful things about Flying Fish on the Boardwalk - people say they have the best steak on property. Yachtsman's Steak House over at the Yacht Club also gets good reviews. Both are just a short boat ride or walk from DHS.

I don't know anything about Kouzzina, but it's a 1 TS, and therefore I'm SURE it's child friendly. We ate there when it was Spoodles and it was great with a kid!
I think most of Fantasyland should be okay/open - there is rumor about Snow White's Scary Adventures closing for good, that might be the case by May/June. There is also rumor of things opening in stages with the new Fantasyland and I do believe the Beauty & the Beast stuff will be first. BUT, don't quote me on ANY of that. It's just speculation I've read. I think Toontown will be closed by then.

I do believe only the decor at WPE is different on each end. The Marketplace one seems to be more popular. It's so yummy - and a bit more on the expensive end - and you get real plates, so it's a great use of a CS credit!

How exciting about the cruise!!!!!! I just realized with my Mom moving down there sometime in 2012/2013 it will be much easier to cruise - she can drive us to the port! I LOVE THAT! We hope to do one in 2012 or 2013. And Disneyland too!

Congratulations on your job! I have been thinking about going back to work as well, I really want to. However, Henry hasn't had all his necessary shots, so regular daycare and pre-school are OUT until we get that wrapped up....and due to the spacing out that is needed, it won't be until May....so....until then I'm SAHM. But, I'll start looking right around then, I'm ready! Congratulations again Nurse Erin!

 

[999ghostslover]

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago - but it wasn't in Minnesota where we lived at all and I haven't a clue if anything like that is in NYC, I would assume not... (good thing we have a boy! )

As for a 2 TS place, I've heard wonderful things about Flying Fish on the Boardwalk - people say they have the best steak on property. Yachtsman's Steak House over at the Yacht Club also gets good reviews. Both are just a short boat ride or walk from DHS.

I don't know anything about Kouzzina, but it's a 1 TS, and therefore I'm SURE it's child friendly. We ate there when it was Spoodles and it was great with a kid!
I think most of Fantasyland should be okay/open - there is rumor about Snow White's Scary Adventures closing for good, that might be the case by May/June. There is also rumor of things opening in stages with the new Fantasyland and I do believe the Beauty & the Beast stuff will be first. BUT, don't quote me on ANY of that. It's just speculation I've read. I think Toontown will be closed by then.

I do believe only the decor at WPE is different on each end. The Marketplace one seems to be more popular. It's so yummy - and a bit more on the expensive end - and you get real plates, so it's a great use of a CS credit!

How exciting about the cruise!!!!!! I just realized with my Mom moving down there sometime in 2012/2013 it will be much easier to cruise - she can drive us to the port! I LOVE THAT! We hope to do one in 2012 or 2013. And Disneyland too!

Congratulations on your job! I have been thinking about going back to work as well, I really want to. However, Henry hasn't had all his necessary shots, so regular daycare and pre-school are OUT until we get that wrapped up....and due to the spacing out that is needed, it won't be until May....so....until then I'm SAHM. But, I'll start looking right around then, I'm ready! Congratulations again Nurse Erin!

Thank you! Very excited. Speaking of vaccinations, I think I need to go in and get a whooping cough booster. All of those sick and dying babies in California.

I really want to do the CAlifornia ABD and do Disneyland when we do that. We do have family in LA so we could always tie it in to seeing them but I can't imagine flying X country until they are all a little older. But a cruise sounds great. Yes, a ride to port will be nice. And not having to go out of Miami is even nicer!

Cngratulations on the job!

And we want to go cruise in '12...I'll be looking for that pretrip since we have never done a cruise and I am clueless about planing for one!

Well, I will need to start frequenting those boards as well but I figure that if we are going to do the Dream then I won't even bother until a little while after her maiden voyage. We went on a Norwegian Cruise Line Cruise to Caymans, Belize, Roatan, Honduras and Mexico and it was awesome. But that was 8 years ago!

Congrats on the new job!! It sounds like you found a good situation that will work for you and your family.

Yes, I am so grateful. I am ready to start today!

 

[Fantasyland Mom]

Thank you so much!!



I have a bachelors in fine arts that I got the traditional way. Almost right after graduation I started taking some nursing pre-reqs while working. Then after Abby was born I finished that second bachelors going semi full-time. I felt very called to it. I have always wanted to get my masters as a CNM but Alabama does not allow home births or birth center births and the doctors block them out of hospitals. I had to go really far away to have a birth at the only hospital in the area with a midwife and the hospital was so bad that I didn't do it for the other two births. When I was younger I was ready to fight the good fight and I went to the capital and tried march and went to midwife meeting but now, meh. It is still really important and I know we can change this state one day but younger and more dedicated women will have to pick up the slack. Right now, I am just too busy.
I want to focus on breastfeeding education and would love to become a lactation consultant. That is something this state desperately needs too and it is a more marketable skill.
But you should totally go for it! Georgia is a great state for all kinds of CNMs and you will love it. If I thought we would move somewhere where CNMs are accepted I would really consider it again.

That's exactly it--I feel like it's a calling! I would also love to be an IBCLC, and the lactation consultant in the hospital with my son told me she would love to hire me on the spot! The health department has offered me a part-time position as a lactation educator, but I'm nursing my son and refuse to leave him (or my other kids) right now.
GA is very CNM-friendly. I had all my kids with a CNM at Kennestone. Like Alabama, midwife-assisted homebirths and birthing centers are still against the law. That's not saying that midwives don't risk it, but I wouldn't be able to. I'd have to be in a practice that has hospital rights. I am still trying to decide whether I want to deliver the babies or take care of them after they're born...hmmm...
Thanks for you input, and congratulations again on your new job! Sounds like it'll be perfect and great hours!

 

[999ghostslover]

That's exactly it--I feel like it's a calling! I would also love to be an IBCLC, and the lactation consultant in the hospital with my son told me she would love to hire me on the spot! The health department has offered me a part-time position as a lactation educator, but I'm nursing my son and refuse to leave him (or my other kids) right now.
GA is very CNM-friendly. I had all my kids with a CNM at Kennestone. Like Alabama, midwife-assisted homebirths and birthing centers are still against the law. That's not saying that midwives don't risk it, but I wouldn't be able to. I'd have to be in a practice that has hospital rights. I am still trying to decide whether I want to deliver the babies or take care of them after they're born...hmmm...
Thanks for you input, and congratulations again on your new job! Sounds like it'll be perfect and great hours!

Have you read the novel Midwives? It is awesome but that is why I could never do illegal homebirths as a practitoner. I would have no malpractice insurance which means they could take our retirement savings, our house everything. I can't be that selfish to my family. I have been at "illegal" homebirths here and they are magical. I wish they were legal.

 

[Fantasyland Mom]

Have you read the novel Midwives? It is awesome but that is why I could never do illegal homebirths as a practitoner. I would have no malpractice insurance which means they could take our retirement savings, our house everything. I can't be that selfish to my family. I have been at "illegal" homebirths here and they are magical. I wish they were legal.

I haven't, but my friend Sarah is in midwifery school now and suggested it to me, too! I guess I need to get a copy!

 

[999ghostslover]

my library has several

 

[999ghostslover]

my ticker stopped working. I'm ticked. Bad pun. Is that the Dis forcing me to use their tickers? Fine, I give in. Here is my ugly new ticker!

 

[Fantasyland Mom]

my ticker stopped working. I'm ticked. Bad pun. Is that the Dis forcing me to use their tickers? Fine, I give in. Here is my ugly new ticker!

It's not ugly! Any countdown is a good one, right??
Was your old one from magicalkingdoms? Cause they're site has malware lately. The dis might have removed it for that. It's been giving the red screen of death to some ladies on my natural parenting forum and that site owner had to block those tickers. If not, then .

 

[999ghostslover]

I think it was. The website was all ****** so probably. It is an okay ticker bt it is back at the beginning. Waaahhh! Oh well, now it will just move faster. Do you do mothering dot commune?

 

[Fantasyland Mom]

I think it was. The website was all ****** so probably. It is an okay ticker bt it is back at the beginning. Waaahhh! Oh well, now it will just move faster. Do you do mothering dot commune?

I've read a lot of articles on mothering, but I am not active on that site. We have a local (Atl. area) site that I frequent. It used to be a national site, but it ended up that there was a huge concentration of us in this area and very few anywhere else, so we made it local (though the others were allowed to stay, of course!) so we can meet up easier, discuss local practices and resources, etc.
That tickers will be moving by leaps and bounds soon!

 

[999ghostslover]

Very cool. There is such a small group of natural parents in this area that we just call each other. LOL. We have La Leche League and a sling group and a woman who owns a small natural parenting store and magazine has events a lot. Ina Mae Gaskin came and spoke at my alma matter in September thanks to a bunch of us organizing it. That was awesome.

 

[999ghostslover]

Do you have a Disney Bucket List?
I didn't but I have heard people talking about them lately so I decided maybe I should. Here is my bucket list in no particular order. A lot of these things will not be able ot be accomplished until kids and finances get a little less crazy.

Pick a Pearl
Go to a WDW wedding
Eat at OHana
Eat at Vicky and Al's
Take a Disney Cruise
ABD somewhere
Go to Disneyland
Surprise someone with a Disney trip.
Stay at the Grand Floridan
Stay at the Boardwalk
Do the Food and Wine Festival
See the Candlelight Processional
See Fantasmic
Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party
Go to Typhoon Lagoon
Ride on an ME bus
Shop at Basin
Stay at AuLani
Eat at CG during Wishes
Ice Cream at Ghiradelli OR Beaches and Cream
Hoop De Doo
Camp at Fort Wilderness (or at least stay in a cabin)
Ride Mission Space
Eat at Le Cellier
Tea at the Grand Floridian
Spa treatment of some kind
Adults only trip
Backstage Magic Tour

I think that about does it. This next trip will hopefully allow us to knock a couple of things off of our list. I can't wait to complete them all.

 

[Fantasyland Mom]

I haven't written up a formal bucket list, but maybe I should! Mine would be very similar to yours, I think! I would add "Stay at Poly."

 

[DIS_Indoctrination]

Your Disney Bucket List is inspiring. There are quite a few on there, I wouldn't have thought of, and a couple I've done (camped at Ft. Wilderness & been to Disneyland). Almost everything else is new to me, so I think my list would be too long. Maybe after we take our first family Disney World Trip in January, I can end my trip report with a Disney World bucket list of things we didn't get to...

 

[pjennings]

I've been reading (and enjoying) your PTR and I really like the Bucket List idea. I think I may have to create one for our Family!

 

[999ghostslover]

I haven't written up a formal bucket list, but maybe I should! Mine would be very similar to yours, I think! I would add "Stay at Poly."

That is a good one to add! I wanted to limit mine to two because otherwise it would be stay at all hotels...although that could actually be a cool bucket list idea!

Your Disney Bucket List is inspiring. There are quite a few on there, I wouldn't have thought of, and a couple I've done (camped at Ft. Wilderness & been to Disneyland). Almost everything else is new to me, so I think my list would be too long. Maybe after we take our first family Disney World Trip in January, I can end my trip report with a Disney World bucket list of things we didn't get to...

That is a great idea! So many people leave WDW disappointed with what they did not accomplish but I think it would be great to leave with a bucket list for future trips. Less sad!

I've been reading (and enjoying) your PTR and I really like the Bucket List idea. I think I may have to create one for our Family!

Thank you!! Let me know when you do. I want to see other ideas.

I thought of another thing. Becky gave me the idea when she booked her sleigh ride through Fort Wilderness. I would say that or even just driving through. I really want to see all of the wacky Christmas decorations out there!

 

[999ghostslover]

Just wanted to say that I am now a Disney veteran!

 

[Fantasyland Mom]

Just wanted to say that I am now a Disney veteran!

VERY COOL!

 

[DIS_Indoctrination]

Has everyone checked out the awesome Beauty and the Beast scenario this week?

Take your Toys R Us flyer from the paper and go buy Beauty and the Beast Blu Ray/DVD combo pack at Walmart and have them give you the price from Toys R Us. I think it is 22.95. Walmart will give you tickets to see Tangled when it comes out in November. Make sure you print out the 10 off coupon from Disney movie rewards so you will only have to pay 12.95. And if you are really hardcore...
go buy 3 campbells kids soups (get a dollar off 3 from campbells.com) and submit it for a rebate for $5.
There is another rebate if you buy western bagels but I cannot find those at my walmart.
So, for about $8 you get three cans of soup, a bluray/dvd combo and tix to see Tangled.

For more info on this deal check out this site.

I told my DH that we can't buy Toy Story 3 until I see what sort of incredible couponing deal you come up with. I found a $5 mail in rebate to Rayovac batteries in the Sunday paper. Have you found any good ways to save on the Toy Story 3 movie yet?