tiredsportsmom
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are headed to Disney!!
Hello everyone,
Ive never done a pretrip report and only 1 trip report before. Mainly because we havent been on a vacation in many, many, many years!!
A little about us: Im (Excited)Tammy , just turned 49 in Feb, (Grumpy)Kenny is my DH, he will be 53 in June I will introduce Curious in a little bit . We have been together 27 yrs in Sept, married 21 in March. We have a total of 4 sons (3 are my stepsons ages 35,32 , 29 this yr and our son will be 25), 2 DILs, 1 future DIL, 7 (my step)grandkids (18 yr boy, 16,14,5,5,3 yr old girls & 6 yr boy) and 1 (my step)great grandson 1 yr old. The 4 oldest grandkids belong to my oldest stepson, he had his 1 baby @16, there are 3 different mothers involved with his children.
When our son went to college @ 18, my DH bought a Harley and our plans were to take lots of trips! Note our plans WERE to do this. God had other plans we soon learned. My oldest stepson got divorced (her choice) and basically went mental, quit his job and drinking became his career. He becomes involved with a girl that has 3 kids (her ex-husband has full custody) guess what??? They have a baby on the way. DH & I know since he has alcohol problem, she has pill problem this child will not stand a chance. There are already 6 kids between them that neither will support or see. They think that all parents will just dish out money for the grandbaby. Long story short they called when baby boy was only 4 days old to see if I would keep him overnight, which turned into all weekend, which turned into every weekend, then all week. At 4 months left him with us, at 9 months DH & I were granted custody of him. They were to get their act together, either as a couple or separate and take him back, well she cheated , had another baby (wasnt stepsons) gave him up for adoption, they split up, both have spent lots of time in jail and during all this a wonderful little boy just celebrated his 6th birthday in January!! We consider him OUR (Curious)DS and both parents have little to no contact with him because our rule for visitation is they have to visit our home drug/alcohol free. They choose not too, and no way am I letting either of them take him anywhere!! Both of his blood grandmothers have also chose to basically ignore him! He is in kindergarten, calls us mom & dad half the time, nana & pa the other, knows without a shadow of a doubt he is loved and that he can depend on us for anything.
Our son still lives at home, has a bachelors of business administration and a bachelors of science in sports management, works for minor league baseball team, has a terrific girlfriend in another state and treats his little nephew like his little brother! Both stepsons and their wives also are great with him!
As I said we havent been on a vacation in forever for various reasons mainly my mothers health (she passed away in July of 2008 but was in very bad health since 2004). Short weekend trips mainly for DS college graduation (2011), great nephews college graduation (2011) and DSs girlfriends college graduation (2012). Are you seeing the pattern??
I suggested to DH that since we arent getting any younger and my MIL & (step)FIL wanted to take DS with them to the beach last year, he really wanted to go but wouldnt cause nana wasnt going that we should put income tax to fun use this year and go see Mickey!! We havent been since about the time AK had just opened! Since we use to stay with his father in Lakeland and only went to Disney 2 days, deep sea fishing (that his dad went with and paid for) DH was like income tax& how much is this going to cost us? (His father passed away in 2006) Told him I would get back with him and started the research!!
I just wanted to give you a little background and hopefully you experienced Disney people can offer lots of tips for our trip!!
Hope I can figure out how to add a ticker soon!
Hello everyone,
Ive never done a pretrip report and only 1 trip report before. Mainly because we havent been on a vacation in many, many, many years!!
A little about us: Im (Excited)Tammy , just turned 49 in Feb, (Grumpy)Kenny is my DH, he will be 53 in June I will introduce Curious in a little bit . We have been together 27 yrs in Sept, married 21 in March. We have a total of 4 sons (3 are my stepsons ages 35,32 , 29 this yr and our son will be 25), 2 DILs, 1 future DIL, 7 (my step)grandkids (18 yr boy, 16,14,5,5,3 yr old girls & 6 yr boy) and 1 (my step)great grandson 1 yr old. The 4 oldest grandkids belong to my oldest stepson, he had his 1 baby @16, there are 3 different mothers involved with his children.
When our son went to college @ 18, my DH bought a Harley and our plans were to take lots of trips! Note our plans WERE to do this. God had other plans we soon learned. My oldest stepson got divorced (her choice) and basically went mental, quit his job and drinking became his career. He becomes involved with a girl that has 3 kids (her ex-husband has full custody) guess what??? They have a baby on the way. DH & I know since he has alcohol problem, she has pill problem this child will not stand a chance. There are already 6 kids between them that neither will support or see. They think that all parents will just dish out money for the grandbaby. Long story short they called when baby boy was only 4 days old to see if I would keep him overnight, which turned into all weekend, which turned into every weekend, then all week. At 4 months left him with us, at 9 months DH & I were granted custody of him. They were to get their act together, either as a couple or separate and take him back, well she cheated , had another baby (wasnt stepsons) gave him up for adoption, they split up, both have spent lots of time in jail and during all this a wonderful little boy just celebrated his 6th birthday in January!! We consider him OUR (Curious)DS and both parents have little to no contact with him because our rule for visitation is they have to visit our home drug/alcohol free. They choose not too, and no way am I letting either of them take him anywhere!! Both of his blood grandmothers have also chose to basically ignore him! He is in kindergarten, calls us mom & dad half the time, nana & pa the other, knows without a shadow of a doubt he is loved and that he can depend on us for anything.
Our son still lives at home, has a bachelors of business administration and a bachelors of science in sports management, works for minor league baseball team, has a terrific girlfriend in another state and treats his little nephew like his little brother! Both stepsons and their wives also are great with him!
As I said we havent been on a vacation in forever for various reasons mainly my mothers health (she passed away in July of 2008 but was in very bad health since 2004). Short weekend trips mainly for DS college graduation (2011), great nephews college graduation (2011) and DSs girlfriends college graduation (2012). Are you seeing the pattern??
I suggested to DH that since we arent getting any younger and my MIL & (step)FIL wanted to take DS with them to the beach last year, he really wanted to go but wouldnt cause nana wasnt going that we should put income tax to fun use this year and go see Mickey!! We havent been since about the time AK had just opened! Since we use to stay with his father in Lakeland and only went to Disney 2 days, deep sea fishing (that his dad went with and paid for) DH was like income tax& how much is this going to cost us? (His father passed away in 2006) Told him I would get back with him and started the research!!
I just wanted to give you a little background and hopefully you experienced Disney people can offer lots of tips for our trip!!
Hope I can figure out how to add a ticker soon!
Ask him if we want to go to water parks, Seaworld, Universal??? He finally tells me whatever as long as we go all day deep sea fishing from Clearwater and visit Daytona beach and you can budget it go for it!! 
He then adds 2 more request to my already scrambled, excited, confused mind... 
and 
for your niece.
I let him know I wasn't crazy about an all day fishing trip and Daytona (cause I know he's going to check out the speedway) We didn't talk anymore about vacation. Tonight we talked, agreed this was about ALL of us having a good time I told him about all the info I had discovered here, on easywdw, trip advisor, etc. He's back on board with all four parks as long as I take charge of where, when, etc. 
