Okay, too funny! What another puzzler? I can give you one. It took me a few minutes to decipher that one.
Oh, I hope you get to go this summer. Would love to see you guys again!
I think we'll at least get there for a few days. If nothing else, the weekend through July 4th. We'll plan another meet. We know we'll be at 'Ohana on the evening of the 4th. What's your plan for that night? Maybe we could meet at Poly.
Have you considered keeping kids after school? (I may have asked you that before... forgive me if I have... my memory isn't what it used to be
) If you could keep a few kids that go to your school, then you could take them home with you when you get off work, or you could have kids from another school ride the bus to your house (if it timed out right). My kids ride the bus to my house and their parents have to pick them up by 6:00. You won't get rich from it but it is an extra money maker for VERY little overhead cost and can be done from home. I usually go ahead and get my supper started and do chores and whatnot while they are here. Honestly my DD keeps them entertained most of the time. I just have to referee from time to time and give them a snack. I also keep them all day on the days that school is out and that pays a lot better. I actually make pretty decent money over the summer. Definitely enough for a Disney trip, or two!
I called around to the local daycares and asked what they charged for after school care and then just priced myself a little cheaper. Never had a problem finding kids to keep that way. And I can tell you that parents LOVE having a teacher keep their kids. It makes you highly qualified!
What dates are you considering now for late October? That's when we are going and I'd love to take a ride on Small World with the Memom crowd! Right now we are looking at Oct. 27- Nov. 6th, but that isn't set in stone. Some things are changing at DH's workplace (as it seems to be for everyone these days) so I haven't been able to book anything yet and it's driving me nuts!
I kept kids for many years - nights and weekends. It was great when the kids were little. We had plenty of outside playing equipment and inside toys, as well. My kids played with them, and I was just the overseer and referee, as you said. I would be glad to do that, but with my job situation, I don't know if I can commit to that. I do the T & Th tutoring sessions for 6-8 weeks twice a year, and that money is decent, so I don't know if I'd want to trade that for babysitting. Wednesdays we have faculty meetings, so I never know when we're leaving. If there's some issue at school, I may not be able to leave right at 3:15. I don't live near the school I teach at, so keeping those kids is not an option. I live in the next county over. There is a bus that drops off here about the time I get home on a 'normal' day, so there would be a slight possibility that I could work that out for M-T-Th-F, if I decided to, but that would leave Wed. out. I think I'd be better off going somewhere that I am not the one in charge. That way, if something happens at school, I can get that taken care of without thinking of unattended kids waiting on me. That would not work!
Plus, being with kids all day, I think I'd enjoy doing something that didn't involve kids for a few hours. I think I'd enjoy working in the tourist industry, like maybe over at Opryland Hotel checking people in. I'll have to check into something like that.
Mostly, I wish I could just live off of my one job's salary, and I could if I didn't have a Disney addiction that keeps my credit card busy.
I was sitting in church yesterday thinking about how I needed to just bite the bullet and say
'no Disney trips for a year', but I think I would really get depressed if I didn't have those trips to my happiest place when things get intense at school.
Our family spent a lot of time there by the Bowling Pin Pool the last time we were there. Love that place. Enjoyed all the shopping pictures and the Fantasmic videos. Also enjoyed Bella's Birthday party pics. You guys throw the cutest parties!
No parties until August. Since it's the newest movie, Brooklynn says she wants a
Tangled party, but I bet every little girl will be having one of those this year. I was thinking about it yesterday, and it hit me that she might like a safari party, since she loves, loves, loves animals!
There would be
so much we could do with that, too, and it would be unlike everyone else's party. She could always still do
Tangled stuff when she takes her cupcakes to school. We'll do whatever she wants, but she's got a while to decide. We'll be going to a
Disney Store, hopefully Easter weekend, and Disney World between now and her birthday, so she may change her mind a half dozen times. Jill said she already has some ideas, though, should she stick with the
Tangled idea.
So glad you guys made it through the storms of last week okay. I think when they got here they had calmed down a bit. It hit in the middle of the night and we heard a little bit of hail and thunder, but nothing horrible. Seth slept through the whole thing, which is the main thing I was worried about!
So glad to hear Trent is home! I know you guys are really happy about it.
Loved the videos of Fantasmic! One of our favorites. For some reason I can only see 2 videos, though. When I click on the first 3, it plays the first video. And when I click on the last 3, it plays the video of Ariel and Eric going by. Weird!
This has absolutely nothing to do with the trip but I saw the highchair in this picture and I REALLY wish they had more highchairs like these in public places with the full back on them. Seth is in that weird stage where he's sitting up on his own, but not very good at it yet and his little back gets tired. So he's not very good in the standard highchair with barely any back on it. And he's too big for an infant carseat now so we're in the convertible carseat that doesn't come out of the car. So if he's not in a car seat or a high chair, guess where he's sitting??? In our laps! Not a huge problem but it gets old when you're trying to eat. Frustrating!!!
I didn't know they did this! What a fun job.
Photobucket gets crazy sometimes. The videos were playing fine, so hopefully they will get back to normal.
Do they make something that can fit inside the semi-backed high chairs that give you more stability? If not, maybe someone should invent something like that. I bet Seth will be sitting up good and strong in a short time, though.
It was very fun to watch. There are five girls on the team, and they play three at a time. Only one girl had ever played, since they're so young (4-5), so none of them really knew much. They had fun, and they enjoyed their snacks afterward. 
I hope you will like the show. Have your camera ready when the boat comes out at the end. There are so many characters! 
So cute! 
I'd rather them be over in another park, anyway, when we're there. 
