Wow - so excited for you, laura!!!! Please promise to report on your progress and your race either here or on another board (and provide link!) I see it's at 87% full now, and still no green light from my husband to register. He has no problem with my trip planning - just a bit Disney resistant at this point - please wish me luck! Any advice, Ninja?
This is a toughie! Can you talk him into thinking that a solo or girls only trip would be good for you? That way you can get him thinking that the expense would just be for 1 person.
To explain your absence you can just tell the kids you are running away from home because they won't pick up their clothes or they are leaving dishes around the house. After a couple of days with you being gone, the little wheels inside their heads will start to turn and they might actually believe that unless they stop making a mess you won't be coming back.
On the day that you return, you will call them and tell them that if they learn to do laundry and keep their rooms clean you'll come home. By this point they will be desperate and totally sick of frozen Pizza or kibble from Pet Smart or what ever it is that your husband has been feeding them and they'll be desperate for your return.
Now if your husband is one of those guys who works all the time and is allergic to child care you can drop the kids off for the week at your local Fire Station. They have laws on the books that state that all unwanted children can be turned in at the fire station with out penalty. Usually this applies to babies but they never did put an age limit on that law and when things get a little hairy with the boys here at home I have been known to throw them (AND my Husband!) in the car and do a drive by of the fire station and mention that all they would get to eat would be beans and chilli for the rest of their lives because that's all they serve at the fire station. This is usually enough to stop the bickering until one of them Googles "abandoned children and fire stations" and the jig is up on my end.
You know Ninja Mom has been very quiet today.... I can only imagine what she's gonna come up with when she reads about the fridge epidemic !!!!
OH NOES!!! I'm gone for 18 hours and the interwebs blows up with this fridge debacle! At first I thought they were replacing the fridges with those new beverage coolers like they put in the Values. These beverage coolers don't have "freezer" compartments (Har, Har like that area ever got cold enough in the old fridges!) The fridges from the days of yore had those freezers and thus they were much less energy efficient.
Now I'm getting the sense that the fridges are failing because they are cooped up in those cabinets and they don't have the proper clearances etc for proper thermal exchange. I know when we were in POFQ last Feb 2 out of three rooms had new fridges/beverage coolers that were not getting cold.
So this brings me to the critical question:
WHAT WOULD NINJA MOM DO (WWNMD)
I'm going to have to get creative with this one folks (Shocker!!!)
First I'd take all those ponchos we are buying and fill them with ice. Then I'd drag them to the room and toss 'em in the tub. Think of it this way.... you now have a GIANT fridge but you are out one shower. BUT you can shower in the locker room at the Fitness center! (Yeah, like that will be attractive! I can just see the thundering herds with bed head and morning breath forming the conga line on their way to the fitness center in the morning to shower).
I'd bet that they
might be handing out those dollar store styrofoam coolers for people who need a place to keep their stuff cool and advising them to use the ice machines. That's just my guess though.
She is at the local Sears or
Best Buy, cornering the market on mini fridges
You are darn tooten* on that one! I'm also going to buy up all the ponchos and then leave my "No Fridge" tips on the budget board to start a run on the market!
(*Tooten = Fire house chilli reference!)
Dave, when you posted on that fridge thread about how them removing the fridges was part of limited time magic and that next week they were removing the air conditioners I laughed so hard and for so long I couldn't catch my breath!
Good news and bad news
Bad news: My Pipi had a stroke last night and he is in the ICU. I live about 5 hours away from our family and it is hard not being able to be there for him. We are all praying that things turn around.
Good news: We booked our 2014 trip today we will be at the Beach Club on
May 28 - June 8, 2014 Garden view room
I hope Pipi is doing better. You and the family are in my thoughts!
My kindergarten team has taken up cookies. You can have those at lunch. We're going from half day to full day next year, so I'm thinking we might need to add candy to our cookies, at least for the first few weeks. I should probably start baking now....
Yes but what will the children eat????
Or are you using the cookies as bribes, oops I mean "behavioral modification tools"? I have always found that you can bribe teachers with chocolate, especially around report card time! During those Parent conference meetings when things start to go south you just whip out a batch of chocolate chip cookies or one of those giant Hershey bars and all is forgiven! Those teachers have a hard time remembering things when their eyes are rolling back in their heads and they start to drool over that chocolate. That's the best time to rip up those police reports and make those changes in the grade books.....
~NM
DH especially. He might resent me for not going back to POP where the chairs are plentiful.
and it has been a stressful day!! 
As much as I love the convenience of having the fridge in my room, I am sure Disney wouldn't remove them all without a pretty good reason. And I'm sure not going to let the lack of a fridge ruin my vacation. C'est la vie, right?
