DDA chapter 21

[my3princes]

I am thinking a few of you need husband alone time?

:yes: I think that would be wonderful, but I've got kids that disagree

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Good morning!

 

[MinnieMouseMom]

Good morning!

 

[tmfranlk]

Good morning, DDA!

Nothing too terrible exciting going on around here today. Just laundry and getting the downstairs ready for Mom to have a Girl Scout meeting today. Of course, that means getting Rachel working on cleaning, which she isn't that happy about, but oh well. I took her least favorite part of the kitchen out of the list for me to do so at least it's not all bad for her.

With any luck, Terra and I will make it to homeschool park day today as well. Still gotta check the weather and make sure it's a day that I want to be at the park, but hopefully!

 

[mommykds]

Good morning.

Boy did we have some lightening last night! It was so bright & so frequent..woke all of us up at 1am. Poor Dana got no sleep & had to leave at 5am.

Have a great day.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Deb, how about summer camp? or maybe even grandmas for a night or 2?

 

[Pooh67_68]

Ann Marie hope Dana can get some sleep tonight.

A storm went through here the other night and while it didn't wake us, it did bring down a good size limb.

 

[my3princes]

Deb, how about summer camp? or maybe even grandmas for a night or 2?

We're going to go somewhere next month if all works out. We applied for passports on saturday so who knows when those will come back. We can't book anything until we get the passports unless we do Vegas or something in the states. We're hoping for a romantic tropical getaway, but who knows where we'll actually end up. I'm certainly thinking we'll get a last minute deal though Chris is going out of town today until Thursday and the younger 2 are not happy about that. They really like us all together. They have no problem going to visit Grammy and Papa, but the still like to know that we are 10 minutes away.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I swear the housekeeper is in a competition with herself to see how much noise she can make from week to week.

Princess is ASLEEP, for crying out loud!!! I just heard what sounded like an entire container of Duplos being dumped out and then thrown back into the bin. Dadboss mentioned there was stuff all over the floor in the master bedroom, but I didn't realize he meant DUPLOS! I would have made Princess pick them up! They moved her from her room to the guest room with her "big girl bed" over the weekend so things are in a bit of a disarray. That's what I thought he meant!

Every week I think how nice it will be for Momboss to be home on maternity leave and have to put up with all the banging and crashing and slamming. It HAS to be intentional. It just has to be.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Deb I hope you can get away by yourselves.


Elizabeth sorry the maid is pita.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Elizabeth--how annoying/frusrating!

 

[lovesdumbo]

Happy Birthday Theresa!!!

Happy Birthday Olivia!!!

The rumor is that ticket prices are going up in August. I ordered our APs online so we locked in the lower price.

Do you know if someone rolleyes1) had say a package booked before August for December would the price remain the same if you didn't pay it off til after August???


Dorinda got a free dining pin. We are thinking of going in early December-her, her DH, & Lizzy-might as well get more "value" out of free dining & Lizzy has never been to Disney for all the Christmas stuff. She doesn't want to book airfare til after she goes on a trip in August and she'll have a free ticket. Hopefully airfare won't go up too much before then.....

Check this out. I saw it on the TPAS page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLOJ9HMkgAE

That is just the coolest thing ever!!!!!!! What a fun family. Wish I had his editing skills!

Well, I clicked to watch the video and it wasn't buffering right so I clicked out of it. Somehow that lead to me discovering that NOTHING is buffering properly, and my speakers on the desktop are really static-y. So obviously htere is some issue with whatever program plays audio. I don't know what it is called, so I can't run any sort of diagnostics on it. The computer says my speakers are functioning normally, so the static must be internal, if that makes any sense. Ugh. I hate computer stuff.

Tia, it IS boring! And now it doesn't even have a soundtrack!

I got a new Dell desktop computuer at work a couple of weeks ago and there is something wrong with the sound there. I haven't complained yet because most of the "sound" I use at work is um....not work related. If I find out what is wrong with mine I'll be sure to let you know.

$36 later & I have my laptop back

YAY!!! That is great!!!!

IMy car is back at the garage. It has a dead fan, which will not arrive until Tuesday. I was already taking Monday off. It would be nice to be able to use my car. The check engine light kept going on and off. It is covered under warranty but frustrating none the less. Hopefully this will be the last issue.

Tomorrow I was supposed to run a meeting for work. I canceled the meeting as my car is in the garage. I could have borrowed a vehicle, but feel bad logging 120ish miles on someone elses car. Plus I was not thrilled to have to drive so much for a meeting that will probably be 1/2 to 1 hour long. Although I will have to do it next week.

I hope you are all doing well!

How frustrating! Hope this is your last problem!

My eyelid looks pretty good. A little puffy, a little bruised, but the bruise is yellowish instead of purple so it isn't THAT bad. I am hoping I will be able to put make up over whatever bump is left so it will look SORT OF normal at WDW. I bought some sunglasses at Nordstrom a few weeks ago but I haven't worn them because I was trying to decide if I wanted to keep them. I think in light of the eyelid I will ABSOLUTELY be keeping them.

I ordered a camera strap for DH yesterday. He is still pestering me for a lens, but the lens is $400! He seems to think this lens is absolutely necessary, but I think he is mistaken.

Glad to hear your eye is improving!!!

I want a $500 lens....well I really want a $5,000 lens.....I don't plan on buying the $5,000 ever and have no immediate plans for the $500 lens. I mostly don't want to drag it around. I was thinking of looking at a new bag though.

Here's something a bit scandalous for you Elizabeth, my BIL and his family are arriving at Disney today, no plans, no ADR's, and they want to eat at a few restaurants, I tried to tell them last week to get on the phone or computer and try and get ADR's but they didn't do it. I also told them to be at the park for rope drop, they said their son didn't like getting up early, , why don't these people ask me ahead of time.

and then they will come home saying how bad it was and how they just don't understand how you can go all the time.......

What a wonderful way to spend a day! This place rivals most of the California wineries in its ambiance and treatment of its visitors. Virginia wines are getting better and better so that made it even more enjoyable.

Sounds like fun!!!

I could never ride on a segway, I trip over my own feet.

I am so uncoordinated and I did it. I have to say it was harder at first than I thought but I'm glad I stuck it out. It was the best thing I've ever done at WDW.

Well we bought a bed... We were at Pottery Barn & they had a floor model sleigh bed orginally $1699. The floor model was for sale $650 so we decided to get it & we had a 10% off coupon. The bed ended up being less than the $650 as posted so our total with tax was $535!!!

So my house is starting to look less like a warehouse & more like a home.

Congrats. Glad you're getting settle into your new home.

And since I haven't posted any pictures of her in a while, her's our bright eyed baby girl. I can't believe she's almost five months old already.

So stinking cute!!!!!!

My ticker is in the teens!!

Are you packed?

I swear the housekeeper is in a competition with herself to see how much noise she can make from week to week.

Princess is ASLEEP, for crying out loud!!! I just heard what sounded like an entire container of Duplos being dumped out and then thrown back into the bin. Dadboss mentioned there was stuff all over the floor in the master bedroom, but I didn't realize he meant DUPLOS! I would have made Princess pick them up! They moved her from her room to the guest room with her "big girl bed" over the weekend so things are in a bit of a disarray. That's what I thought he meant!

Every week I think how nice it will be for Momboss to be home on maternity leave and have to put up with all the banging and crashing and slamming. It HAS to be intentional. It just has to be.

Well....I'm betting she will NOT do it in front of Momboss.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Bernadette - I have heard it both ways about tickets in packages that re not paid in full. the general consensus seems to be if you have paid the deposit the ticket price stays the same UNLESS you make changes to the ressie and then the price will increase.

The audio thing annoys me.

This lens DH wants is a 30mm thing that has very limited uses. He thinks he needs it for photos inside dark rides. WHY do I need pics inside dark rides? WHY? And what on earth would make them worth buying a lens for $400???? It's all very silly.

Per the packing rules, I will pack on Sunday.

Dadboss said to the best of his recollection the Duplos were NOT scattered all over the floor. Really, she invents games to see how much noise she can make. Like the game where she throws the plastic cup into the shower, or slams the glass shower door over and over, or bangs the handle of the bucket (which really IS loud), or dismantles the stove and bangs the pieces around. I will say she waited until after Princess woke up to run the vacuum today.

 

[Mommy2EmMoLu]

Does anyone have a good lemon cupcake recipe? I'd prefer not from a box, but did find a neat one that called for angel food cake and lemonade concentrate that sounded interesting...

Chanon, may be too late but...

Amazing Lemon Cake
1 box Duncan Hines white cake mix
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 box Jell-O brand instant lemon pudding mix
1/2 tsp salt
4 whole eggs
1 1/3 cup water
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 cup (8 oz) sour cream
1 tsp clear vanilla flavor
2 tsp lemon extract (I prefer Watkins)
Zest and juice from 2 large lemons
Mix all ingredients for 2 minutes. Scrape bowl and mix for an additional minute. Pour into greased cake pans with a greased flower nail in the center of each pan. Bake in a 325 degree oven. Cake is done when a toothpick has some crumbs clinging to it. I divide the batter from this recipe into two 8" x 3" pans which makes two nice tall layers that I then torte twice and fill with lemon curd. Yum!

 

[Tammi67]

Does anyone have GPS coordinates or addresses for parks/BCV/BLT/DDT/TL that they could share with me? We are borrowing a friends' GPS for our trip.

 

[Mommy2EmMoLu]

I spent the weekend at Ocean City with my mom, aunt and 3 family friends. While it wasn't quite the "girls getaway" I was hoping for (no wild parties) it was nice to have some "me time". But coming home and having the girls smile and run to me made me happy to be home.

While I was gone Eric put up one of those easy set pools. It's 3' x 12' which takes up a huge chunk of the backyard but if it keeps the girls occupied it will be well worth it!!!! So far the girls have loved being in it!

Our summer plans have changed drastically. We, obviously, aren't going to WDW in Aug. I found out about a month ago that I was going to need surgery and I wasn't sure when it would be scheduled for. So the trip got canceled. Of course, I just got my surgery date this past Friday (Aug 17th) so we could have kept the trip. But had I not canceled it, it would have been during the WDW trip, because that seems to be my luck!

Our plans now include a trip to Michigan to visit our family out there. Not quite as exciting as WDW but fun. And the girls will be spoiled! So it's all good.

I will say that our summer is just as busy and the girls are getting to do lots of fun things. Em is camping with Lily & her mom tonight. I have no daycare kids this week so Mo & Lu and I will enjoy the pool together. Mo has a follow up for her elbow on Wednesday. Thursday I am taking Em & Lily into DC for the day. My aunt is going to watch the other 2. Thursday night we are headed to Harry Potter with Em's GS troop. Friday I am taking Em to a children's museum in Annapolis that has a special program at night on Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Saturday we pack for camp for both Em & Eric. Eric leaves bright and early Sunday morning. I will be driving Em up to camp Sunday afternoon while my mom keeps the other 2 (poor girls, always left behind!!!) Mo will start a ballet/tap class the end of this month, hopefully her cast will be off by then. We hope to get a weekend camp trip on the calendar at some point, too.

I, like Heidi and Jen, went back and read what I missed. Problem is my brain is mush. Belated birthday wishes to everyone that celebrated!! 's and all around.

 

[ReAnSt]

Does anyone have GPS coordinates or addresses for parks/BCV/BLT/DDT/TL that they could share with me? We are borrowing a friends' GPS for our trip.

All of the addresses are available here.

Just know the way the GPS directs you may not be the same way as how the signs send you.

 

[my3princes]

I spent the weekend at Ocean City with my mom, aunt and 3 family friends. While it wasn't quite the "girls getaway" I was hoping for (no wild parties) it was nice to have some "me time". But coming home and having the girls smile and run to me made me happy to be home.

While I was gone Eric put up one of those easy set pools. It's 3' x 12' which takes up a huge chunk of the backyard but if it keeps the girls occupied it will be well worth it!!!! So far the girls have loved being in it!

Our summer plans have changed drastically. We, obviously, aren't going to WDW in Aug. I found out about a month ago that I was going to need surgery and I wasn't sure when it would be scheduled for. So the trip got canceled. Of course, I just got my surgery date this past Friday (Aug 17th) so we could have kept the trip. But had I not canceled it, it would have been during the WDW trip, because that seems to be my luck!

Our plans now include a trip to Michigan to visit our family out there. Not quite as exciting as WDW but fun. And the girls will be spoiled! So it's all good.

I will say that our summer is just as busy and the girls are getting to do lots of fun things. Em is camping with Lily & her mom tonight. I have no daycare kids this week so Mo & Lu and I will enjoy the pool together. Mo has a follow up for her elbow on Wednesday. Thursday I am taking Em & Lily into DC for the day. My aunt is going to watch the other 2. Thursday night we are headed to Harry Potter with Em's GS troop. Friday I am taking Em to a children's museum in Annapolis that has a special program at night on Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Saturday we pack for camp for both Em & Eric. Eric leaves bright and early Sunday morning. I will be driving Em up to camp Sunday afternoon while my mom keeps the other 2 (poor girls, always left behind!!!) Mo will start a ballet/tap class the end of this month, hopefully her cast will be off by then. We hope to get a weekend camp trip on the calendar at some point, too.

I, like Heidi and Jen, went back and read what I missed. Problem is my brain is mush. Belated birthday wishes to everyone that celebrated!! 's and all around.

Robyn I don't remember reading that you needed surgeryI hope it's nothing serious.


I've been up since 2 AM with Colby. His feet were bothering him and since Chris is out of town, I was the only option Now I'm exhausted, but must go to work

 

[Tammi67]

All of the addresses are available here.

Just know the way the GPS directs you may not be the same way as how the signs send you.

I had seen that but was hoping for some confirmation on accuracy from someone that has used them. Thanks.

 

[Tammi67]

Robyn - your summer sounds so relaxing. NOT! But I know you are having fun!

Deb - I hope you aren't too tired today.