DDA Chapter 27

[tmfranlk]

Good morning, DDA!

Another day another change. I guess their going to put in a feeding tube for Granny today. She eats breakfast most mornings and will drink an ensure later, but isn't eating much otherwise. Lung doctor says she needs the tube to get her strength up to heal. I'd agree just from the 3 minutes I talked to her yesterday. She was really lethargic and not herself at all. They did find yeast on her tongue too which might explain the eating some as well.

In good news though, my cousin had her baby yesterday! I don't remember if I'd posted in late Jan or early Feb that she'd gone into labor at 28 weeks. The did the steroid shots for lungs just in case, but after a couple of days they got her stabilized enough to let her go home to do total bed rest there. A week or so ago they released her from bed rest as she'd made it to almost 37 weeks and she went into labor yesterday and delivered quickly after that. He's a handsome little boy with a very proud 7yo big brother.

We had a beautiful day at the zoo yesterday along with the rest of the crowd. The rest of the week we're supposed to alternate beautiful sunny warm with stormy. We'll see how it goes.

 

[Glynis]

Tia - I'm sending prayers for your grandmother. Sounds like she may have developed a case of thrush. This happened to my grandmother, and she stopped eating, as well. Once the doctor's got the thrush under control, her appetite came back.

We have had snow, starting on Sunday night, and off and on throughout the day yesterday. Weatherman says it's supposed to clear off and get into the 70's by the end of the week. I'm hoping this was the last snow of the season, but who really knows? The ski resorts would be thrilled to have more snow. It's been kind of a lackluster year for them. They've all had to resort to making their own snow. I, however, am more than ready for Spring to come!

Tomorrow my twins turn 10! I can't believe it! The time has gone by so fast. Today I will spend my time finishing up shopping for the girls. I've got to make one birthday cake for Mary, and Leslie wants a giant donut. Crazy kids!!!

 

[PNO4TE]

Good morning, DDA!

Tia - Good luck to your Grandma... I hope the feeding tube can be temporary!

Glynis - SNOW?!?!?! Happy Birthday to the twins. I cannot believe they are 10 years old either!

 

[bethbuchall]

Tia, I hope that your grandmother regains her strength and appetite and heals quickly!

Glynis, please, please, please keep the snow there. It's unusually warm and sunny here for March, and I am enjoying it. Today we are supposed to reach 79-degrees, and Syracuse is going to be in the mid-80s. (ETA: I just checked weather.com, and it's "only" 73 here and 79 in Syracuse despite their earlier predictions. It is simply lovely, though! )

Deb, I hope that you are feeling better now!

 

[bethbuchall]

We're taking a family trip! We were going to do a roadtrip since Kaelyn is going to be a senior next year, but with everything we wanted to see, the 2 weeks we had wasn't going to be enough to stay any one place more than a few hours. So Craig calls me one day and says, "I've been pricing WDW." That in itself shocked me because he goes just for my benefit. He enjoys it, but not like us addicts do. So anyway, we're going the end of August. Hot, I know, but we're getting the free dining that way.

That is exciting!

I think that I could almost convince my husband that we need to go back, too. The problem is that Matthew needs to find an internship this summer, and I don't know if he will have any time available this summer at all. He really wants to go back, too, so I don't want to do a trip without him this summer. Maybe he'll find an internship that will allow him some free time before school starts again. Until he knows what he is doing, I can't do anything. He graduates next May, and I'd love to plan a trip then, but I won't know what he's doing as far as a job, and I don't think that will be a good time to take Miles out of school for a week or more. It was so much easier when they were little...

 

[MinnieMouseMom]

Tia, I hope they get Grandma feeling better so she gets her appetite back!

Glynis, happy birthday to the twins! We woke up to snow here too. Supposed to get more tonight. It's not a real common occurrence here, so we're excited.

Thanks about the trip, everyone! Now if I could just say it was all paid off, I'd be happy! It will definitely seem more real when I don't have to worry about that. lol I need to get my act together and figure out which park we'll be at on which day and get my ADR's done.

 

[tmfranlk]

Hello, DDA!

Just a quick update. Granny seems a lot better today. I guess the doctor called her Lazarus this morning she was so much improved. They tried for something like 5 hours yesterday to do the feeding tube, but she was coughing so much they couldn't succeed. In the end they decided to wait another day and see if she'd eat better. I wondered if it was going to work out like a hospital version of "Scared Straight" and apparently it did. She ate dinner well last night, a good breakfast today and was apparently telling her friend (who checked into the hospital yesterday with heart problems) that she was going to eat the friend's dinner too. Hopefully this is all a good sign and she'll improve quickly now.

In the meantime we've all been conspiring to clean her house, fix things around the house and my aunt has replaced both toilets so hopefully the shock of this all (and her ire with us) doesn't do more harm than good in the end.

 

[PNO4TE]

Good morning, DDA!

Good news, Tia!

 

[MinnieMouseMom]

Glad she's feeling better, Tia!

 

[PNO4TE]

It is the 100th Anniversary of the Cherry Blossom Festival in DC. I had hoped to take Bob up there this weekend but we are to get thunderstorms both Saturday and Sunday. That will ruin the blossoms, and the Festival just started!!

Anyway, I found this gorgeous tree when I was out and about this morning and decided to grab a shot of a cherry tree to remember this year.

 

[bethbuchall]

That is a beautiful tree, Elin. I am sorry that the weather is not cooperating for you to go see the trees in DC. Miles mentioned the other day that he'd like to go to Washington, DC. I said something about him being there before and then realized that he wasn't even 2 yet when we were there last.

 

[Tammi67]

everyone!

 

[MrsHeg]

Good Morning,

Nice to see so much chatter on here,

Tammi, we'll be looking forward to a trip report of the Dream, are you planning on trying out the slide? Looks like a lot of fun.

I ordered some shirts to make for our June trip, I have to make at least one.

 

[PNO4TE]

Good morning, DDA!

Lots of posts!!

 

[PNO4TE]

After Bob's eye doctor appointment this morning I decided to take him for a drive in our neck of the woods. It is gorgeous here today and the call of the cherry blossoms was too great. The only thing missing from this show was the beautiful DC monuments in the background of my shots. Well, that and the fact that I left the camera at home and had to use my cell phone instead. Not bad though!

 

[PNO4TE]

Good morning, DDA!

I finalized our plans for our October trip this morning. For the first time in 27 years we will not be staying in a "Disney" resort! We have five nights booked at the Dolphin and then a 2-night package, also at the Dolphin, for their Food & Wine Classic. The difference in the cost made it a complete no-brainer.

 

[mommykds]

Elin,
Beautiful pictures!

Prices for the Disney resorts are just going crazy. We will be staying off site this spring (2nd time we have done this) but we are really close to the DTD gate. The Dolphins location is fantastic for the F&W.

 

[Tammi67]

Good Morning,

Nice to see so much chatter on here,

Tammi, we'll be looking forward to a trip report of the Dream, are you planning on trying out the slide? Looks like a lot of fun.

I ordered some shirts to make for our June trip, I have to make at least one.

Yes, Debbie, I will definitely being trying out the AuquaDuck!

Is it a family affair for Aubrey's first trip, or will it just be you and Richie taking the kids? How exciting!

Allergy season is in full swing here. We are having windy weather today, which is making it worse.

 

[Disney Yooper]

Good morning, DDA!

I finalized our plans for our October trip this morning. For the first time in 27 years we will not be staying in a "Disney" resort! We have five nights booked at the Dolphin and then a 2-night package, also at the Dolphin, for their Food & Wine Classic. The difference in the cost made it a complete no-brainer.

When will you be going? We are there Sept. 27 - Oct. 4 in the Treehouse Villas. Becky & her boyfriend are supposed to be coming. Katrina is going to be there but we aren't sure about her husband. We'll invite my mom again. My brother doesn't have his son that week-end, so we aren't sure whether they'll be able to make it.

 

[Disney Yooper]

The cherry blossom pictures are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.