How I got out of a mixed marriage

[richard_andmel]

Ok... Really need more. You left us on a cliffhanger!

 

[CPer'sMom]

More! More! My coffee just wasn't the same this morning without a new installment to read!!

 

[flipflop]

twinkie, I can only imagine the "shock and awe" on the faces of those who get served a slice of that cake. maybe i should make it next time the in-laws are over? hhmmm. maybe they won't want to come back. too easy. I digress. get writing lady.

 

[TwinkieMama]

It was one of those moments where you feel like time has frozen. DH and I lock eyes over his head. Notice that the smart little guy has addressed his comments to me… he knows who planned this trip and he knows who the softie is in any situation. If you want an extra dessert at 9 pm ask Daddy, if you want to go to Disney World well then bat your eyelashes at Mom.
Now the good ol’ Disney Marketing Machine had thought about people in our shoes and they had a handy answer…. the 1-day 1-park bounce back pass. Yup, such a thing did exist and basically how it worked was if you went to the ticket people before park close and you had a 1 day 1 park pass you could get another pass for the same park good tomorrow at a significant savings over buying another 1 day pass. I don’t think 2 day passes existed outside of a length of stay pass back then but I could be wrong. I knew about the bounce back pass but I didn’t have the numbers in my head so I am doing rapid math with approximations (remember the secret budget surplus of $50… and the fact that we are under budget for today because we haven’t spent any money on souvies or bought dinner yet)….I think I can make it work… I literally trying to remember what we own in the cupboards at home to figure how long we could go without buying groceries other than bread or milk...

I open my mouth to say something… (even I am not quite sure what because we are very very careful not to promise things we can’t deliver which is always a good way to be but we are extra tender about this since we figured there was enough in his life we couldn’t control that we didn’t want to add any disappointment that we could prevent.) When his Dad said “I am sorry son but we can’t come back tomorrow… remember we are going back home tomorrow but we will come back some day. If you are almost finished with your ice cream let’s go ride the Haunted Mansion in the dark”

So DH sells DS on how cool it would be to tell everyone that he went into a haunted mansion in the dark. By now it is about 8:20 pm and night is falling rapidly. Now I have another inner war- I think this is a great idea both to distract DS and get him away from JimBob before JimBob reveals that he has a TV and a computer in his room and he is getting a pony for his birthday…. However HM is on the other side of the street and I am worried that the parade might start and they would be stuck over there. That would not be magical. So I say “Honey, Haunted Mansion is on the other side of the street and I am worried that the parade might start and you would be stuck over there.”
“Oh pooh” he says to indicate that my worries are weak and silly and feminine. “We will be back. No problem. There isn’t a line.”
“OK but if there is any sort of line you turn around and come straight back here. You hear?”
“Yes ma’am. Come on son… let’s go step into the center of the room… the dead center. Buhahahaha”
And off they go. And I am left alone to sit and wait and single handedly fend off the space encroachers….

 

[TwinkieMama]

flipflop: do it! take pics! post them! especially of the shock and awe face way OT: if you go to the hostess website they had some cakes too... one looked like a wedding cake! any brides out there?

Iott Family: excellent use of your "free" time! My youngest wasn't napping which is why there wasn't any more....

Ponkeo: you cracked me up.... it sounds like a song "Where have all the eggrolls gone?" ...anyway if you don't get that promotion you will have more time to go to Disneyworld.

Glendamax: Here is some more be sure to share with rabrog, tubachick and anyone else who forgot theirs....

maybe flipflop will "bake" us a cake...

 

[LaLa]

Notice that the smart little guy has addressed his comments to me… he knows who planned this trip and he knows who the softie is in any situation.

Well Duh.

Don't they all do that? And isn't the softie always female?

Well it actually was the other way around in my family growing up. Mama didn't play. But Daddy was a big ball of mush. Gotta love those sweet Daddies. Anyway, yall handled the situation really well. You sound like a couple of really good parents.

And thanks for the compliment TM. Yeah, I did that on purpose. The overdue thing. For the hook. Cause who wouldn't want to hear about a birth on the monorail or Splash Mountain.

I'm KIDDING.

It never occurred to me that people would think that until kpk posted. Really. If you read the TR, you'll know that just about everything I do is Overdue. Well, except for having babies. I was actually early in that regard. For once. Twice. But I digress...

Anyway, keep it comin TM. And bring on the sweet tea. An biscuits. Y'all.

 

[TwinkieMama]

As soon as they leave it seems to get much darker all of the sudden. I check my watch compulsively. I figure and re-figure the budget and conclude that DH was right (sigh)… and we need to get home because all the pixie dust in the World will not help me with the paper I need to write on “The Use of Exotic Germplasm in Advanced Hybrid Lines When Selecting for Quantitative Trait Loci.” I wish I had a Coke. I check my watch. The crowd doubles… where did all these people come from?
I wish I had something soft to sit on. I play peek-a-boo with SassyLou. She is a cute kid. I bet she even has eaten with Cinderella. I check my watch. Then I notice that I don’t have enough space next to me for a toy poodle let alone a husband and child. The people around me have been transformed from sunburned families on vacation to a menacing mob intent on seeing the parade no matter what the cost in life or limb.
Maybe she overheard our conversation, maybe she was just a very sweet and considerate lady, whatever the reason, JimBob’s mama notices how hard it is to save a place for someone when you don’t have a stroller and she instructs her brood to spread out to help me save our places. I flash a weak smile of thanks and make polite inquiries into the ages of her children. She and her husband wax poetic on what a great vacation they have had and how they are definitely coming back next year but maybe in the fall instead because they hear it is less crowded then but they really love the water parks. I have never been so I ask how her children enjoyed the water parks. (They loved it.)
However, out of the corner of my eye I notice that the CMs are now stringing up rope and preventing people from crossing the street….. I scan the crowd looking for the tall, dark, unshaven man (or pod person) I am married to… it is pretty dark by now so this isn’t very effective… my stomach kind of knots up… We didn’t set a meeting place because we haven’t been apart all day and I thought they were coming right back. (Of course we don’t have walkie talkies or cell phones (where they even invented in ’98?) being as we are frugal people (not that there is anything wrong with that) we didn’t have cell phones until 2004. That is okay. My in-laws still don’t have touch-tone service at their house because it costs an extra 74 cents a month. I am not kidding) Where are they? I am going to kill them if they decided to ride HM again and again instead of seeing the parade. What if DS got lost in the dark and crowds? I’ll never forgive myself if anything happens. I wonder if DH is able to keep track of his own child… Should I try to cross the street while I can still sneak past a CM? Where are they???

 

[scraptoons]

Cliffhangers! Twinkie,how could you do this to us!

I'm so enjoying this story.

 

[MagicMe]

Another cliffhanger???? You sure know how to keep us interested!!!

 

[flipflop]

I wonder if there is way to make sweet tea or biscuits from twinkies. oops. can't think that hard. brain hurts. TM - saw the wedding cake - so as not to offend any twinkie wedding cakers out there. I. will say. interesting. ashame i didn't know about that option when i married. seriously. More disturbing. I found 133 recipes calling for twinkies on a cooking wedsite.

I see you have twins. I have triplets. mine are 14 months. yours are 4 years. I'd rather have yours. lets trade.

cheers to you on the most recent installments. disney. there. two things on topic.

 

[MaryPA]

YOUR KIDDING? WHERE DID IT GO? THIS CAN'T BE THE LAST PAGE?

Hello!!!!!! Where are you?


MORE! MORE! MORE!





please?

 

[ArielDreams]

ahhh!!! i need the next installment! i'm hooked!

 

[bclydia]

So much fun to read!!!
Loving your trip report!

 

[gigi1313]

oh, man... at least last night i went to bed dreaming of that sweet little boy asking for one more day... now i'm going to have nightmares of dh/ds in the haunted mansion, missing the parade, getting separated, and all other horrible stuff that could happen... yikes!

hurry back twinkiemom... you are more needed here, trust me!

 

[Jacksmom99]

I hate when I click on the last page and it's actually the end....no more posts from the trip report

Keep them coming!! I'm really enjoying the World through the little boy's eyes!

 

[Harmony272]

YAY! More More

 

[MNRMommy]

All right allready. I am a habitual reader (yeah that's right READER, not poster) of trip threads) but these cliff hangers are killing me. PLEASE put us out of our missery. Give me the finale!!!!!!

 

[NAB]

No my son doesn't know he is named after a cracker.. Waiting to here more of the story or should I say report

 

[mikesdisneymom]

 

[TwinkieMama]

I wonder if there is way to make sweet tea or biscuits from twinkies. oops. can't think that hard. brain hurts. TM - saw the wedding cake - so as not to offend any twinkie wedding cakers out there. I. will say. interesting. ashame i didn't know about that option when i married. seriously. More disturbing. I found 133 recipes calling for twinkies on a cooking wedsite.

I see you have twins. I have triplets. mine are 14 months. yours are 4 years. I'd rather have yours. lets trade.

cheers to you on the most recent installments. disney. there. two things on topic.

a) sweet tea, yes.... biscuits... now that would be a challenge
b) you could still do a birthday cake...or 3...
c) about the trade... I am pretty sure we would have to move to the rent/trade board to arrange the details... I would probably have to throw in my 14 month old too... hmm...
d) thanks so much!