Very nice MeMom!
Have a great Sunday.
It was a nice Sunday. Church, a little schoolwork, took out the trash, washed a load of towels, watched some HGTV, DISed....just aort of normal stuff. The temperature according to the church sign when I pulled in was 63 degrees, so that was nice. I am ready for some beautiful Tennessee autumn weather.
How
! We did have a blast MeMom , just finally getting around to catching up on every-one's reports and gonna try and start my own ! We've had such a busy time since we got back with laundry,school,soccer,boy scouts, uploading & editing pictures , putting everything away , cleaning up the messes our dogs decided to leave us while we were gone and getting ready for a move we just found out about on vacation to California at the end of October !
Great updates MeMom & Jill
-Love the early morning PoP pictures , you always do such a beautiful job MeMom !
-Bella is soo silly, the traveling to the bathroom picture and bow pic are too cute !
-Nice
Disney Store pictures, I'm hoping when we move to find one close by although in our new location there seems to be not much close by lol
-Great pictures of the opening show Jill
-Awesome Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin pictures
-The park looked so empty for being 4th of July , where was everyone at ?
-So cute how Bella really checks Minnie & Mickey out and Brooklynn is def a pro with the characters !
-Great construction pictures Jill
-Adorable pictures of Brooklynn opening ToonTown such a lucky girl
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the ToonTown shopping pictures , it's hard to believe the next time we are at WDW that will all be gone !
-Precious pictures & video of the girls with the Stepsisters & Stepmother
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that mural at the Contemporary !
-Nice Chef Mickey's pictures and the breakfast looks so yummy
-You got me very teary eyed this morning w/ your voices of Liberty Concert Story , Veterans & Our Men and Women in uniform have such great respect for our country ! Such amazing people that we can all learn from !
It does take several days to recuperate, doesn't it?
A MOVE? That's sort of a big thing! Tell us more.
You always have such profound words, MeMom. Thank you for taking the time to share them with us.
I just blabber on. Glad you enjoyed the 'out loud' thoughts.
Aww. MeMom. What a great way to look at boxing up those old momentos. I'm so glad you hold the memories so dear.
Are y'all going to the Madison Street Festival on Saturday? Abs will be in the parade with her Indian Princess tribe. The boys and I will watch the parade and walk around the street vendors a bit. Tom and Abs will leave there to go to her cheerleading and then home for a quick break before one of us takes her to a birthday. Next year cheerleading is going to have to go. None of us like it but we are making her see through her commitment. Anyway, if that is the fair you are talking about we would love to meet up. Jill, if you have a time and place that works let me know.
I will let Jill answer about the Street Festival, but I am guessing that is what it is. She has to run a booth for a couple of hours, so the girls and I are going to go do fun things while she is there. We can text with you on that day or she can just tell you about her booth and we can arrange a time to meet there.
I'm just catching up on all my DISing & trip reporting & looking at your updates from the past week.
I love the picture of Bella trying to take flight! She's so cute!
It looks like you guys had fun at Chef Mickey's! The food looks good and it looks like you had good character interaction.
Chef Mickey's is always a fun time for us. It's just one of those classic meals. Some of our cousins (different ones than will be there with us) are eating at Chef Mickey's next Wednesday. They have not been to WDW with their boys, so it's fun for us to think about them being there.
Looked like a happy breakfast at CM!! I do love Pluto too
Such a touching story about VOL....I was weepy too
tomorrow WILL be another clean slate day
Tracy
We'll see if Bella continues to have an affection for Pluto. I'm wondering if she will warm up to the characters faster this time, since it hasn't been long since she was there.
Hurray for being in Animal Kingdom in three weeks!!!
You are so right about making the most of each day. That is something I should strive to do -- some days are easier than others, for sure!
It is easier to say it than do it, but if we keep reminding each other to do our best often, I think we can all go out with good attitudes and make things a little nicer than they might have been if we weren't making the concentrated effort. I ended my Friday afternoon with one of my fragile students having quite an episode. He destroyed a whole bookshelf of stuff I had laid out - knocking things all over the place. His caregiver said she had been seeing issues at home, too, and he may be going to a 'place' for a while, but if he shows up this morning, I want to start his day and my day with him off on a good note. He's a sweet kid with a mountain of issues that he's going to have to deal with in what I am sad to think is going to be a rough life.
I think it'll be awesome! And being down there for an entire semester I'm bound to run into you at some point
Yeah I'm looking at Rhode Island College and University of Rhode Island. RIC is about 20 minutes away so that's not bad at all. URI is a little farther. About an hour I think. But I'd be even more hesitant to stay in the dorms there. They're not the safest dorms apparently. A family friend went there and someone broke into her dorm and stole her laptop, her jewelry, her CD's, basically everything that was at all expensive. URI has four different campuses. Their main campus is the one that's an hour away, but they also have one that's 20 minutes away. If it's possible I'll try to take at least one of my classes there. I don't think the commute will bother me too much unless I have really early classes. My mom commutes an hour to work every week day and she doesn't mind it much.
A lot of my friends think I'm crazy because I don't want to get away from home. A lot of them can't wait to move out because their parents drive them nuts. My mom and I get along great and I'm in no rush to move out and she's definitely not in any rush for me to leave.
My mom and I made a Disney dinner tonight! We got some recipes from allears.net. We made the wild mushroom and chicken pasta from Crystal Palace and the seasoned green beans from Chef Mickey's
We messed up the beans a little bit(That may have been my fault
) but they were still good. The pasta was AMAZING and tasted exactly like the pasta at Crystal Palace.
I was in no rush for my kids to leave, either. I like having them around. Drew stays with friends a lot now, so he's in and out. I might not see him for several days, but he always is glad to get back to his own home. I have talked about selling this house and moving one of these days, but Trent has forbidden me to give away his childhood home.
He says all of the bumps and scratches around here are his memories, and he doesn't want to give them up. He started making his mark on this house as we were moving in by skidding and running his Geoffrey giraffe riding toy off the kitchen steps down into the den.
Your meal sounds good. I believe we'll be having some Liberty Tree Tavern recipes for Thanksgiving.
maybe she felt brave enough to touch him because she's so fond of the little pluto she carries around with her. pluto is one of my faves, too!
Yep, I think she did recognize and feel comfortable a little with him because of her toy dog. By the time she gets a new stuffed animal and Brooklynn does, too, on every trip, they're going to have to have an extra room!
Such inspiring words MeMom-thanks for sharing them with us!!
I get inspired from others often, so I am glad I could pass that on to someone else.
Hey Memom, Jill and everyone
We have had our first full week here at WDW and it has been wonderful. Have been to all 4 parks but we are all really struggling with the heat and humidity - we dont get these temps at home. My 7 yr old nephew is having a hard time keeping up with our commando schedule - we underestimated how tough it would be for him and have had to curtail alot of the plans otherwise the wobblies start and the stamping of feet etc which is rather embarrassing in a full park!!!
The first day at Magic Kingdom I nearly passed out from the heat and my mother and sister got great pleasure out of tipping bottles of water over my head to cool me down - I am sure it is something they cherished having permission to do.
Love your country, the people are so friendly and welcoming. The pink lemonade is divine - we dont have that at home. Been on Toy story mania - I was hopeless - 7 yr old beat me. done the safari, loved Phillarmagic. Had a blast at the 50 Prime time diner - brother Bob was brilliant. Have achieved so much really and loved it all. Went to the Mickeys not so scary party which was fantastic and now we have booked another one as there was so much we didnt do.
Quiet day today - started out with breakfast at Chef Mickeys - so your photos were great as I have now experienced it myself. took a ride to the local
Walmart which is an amazing place - we could have spent the day there - everything seems to be so cheap. Then checked out some resorts.
Staying at the Dolphin which is a lovely place - so big we keep still getting lost.
Best stop now before I write a whole trip report on yours!!! sorry about that. We are having a day at Universal tomorrow as we want to do Harry Potter world - big fans.
Have a good night
So good to hear from you while you are there!
Have a great time, and we will want to hear all about it!
Take plenty of time for rest, for sure.
It's funny to read your view of Walmart.
MeMom you have such a way with words
Aw, shucks.
Looks like our paths probably won't cross.
But who knows plans might change again? I will pm Jill my facebook info and that way if it looks like I may be in the same place I can let you know.
If you leave your parks midday to go to DTD or a resort, just let us know. Surely we can work something out for a fly-by hello at some point.
) so we can live there 6 months out of the year.
You are at SSR this trip, correct? The zero entry in the big pool is quite nice, and they have a kiddy water slide. 
You are certainly a wonderful mom and I know you love your children very much....and grandkids too!!!! Thats what its all about!!! 
, DD-9 
, DS-7 
, DS-5 
I love reading your reports and have learned so much on here! 
