Back to the title of this here pre-TR.
“Is grandma a princess or a pirate?”
As I have previously said…I am a KOTS member now. Or a Keeper of the Secret.
Neither Jon nor Lexie know about the trip.
Jon is graduating 6th grade on May 23rd.
We leave on the 26th. Somewhere in there we will have a graduation party for him. I need to surprise him with the news. How do I do that??? Opinions? Ideas? And I'm serious people...I need you to weigh in on that one!
When we went 2 1/2 years ago, I gave him his trip at Christmas, and we left a few days later. Back then, I made him a little banner that said: “You’re going to Disney World.” I put the banner in a box, inside a box, inside a box…etc. I made him unwrap all of the boxes down to the last one…and he read the paper…and SURPRISE!!!
Well, it wasn’t that exciting…because Jon rarely gets excited and he didn’t really know what WDW was as he’d never been then. (that was pre-obsession days for me) So, he ended up reading the banner and kind of looking at me with a totally baffled expression. I, on the other hand, was sobbing like a baby…because I was giving my child this awesome gift. And darn it if he didn’t have a clue as to what was going on.
Well, this time…it needs to be bigger and better. It needs to be flippin’ great!
I just don’t have any great ideas! Please share some of yours!
Ok…now on to Lexie.
She doesn’t know either…well, she sort of doesn’t know.
See, Lexie is just now 4. And she’s never been on a plane. Well, we can’t very well just spring a plane ride on this 4-year-old. Lexie don’t work like that. So, my mother told her that she, grandma, Tia (that’s what she calls me), and Jon will be packing bags and going on an airplane to get a surprise. Well, Lexie is smart. And she’s been asking to go to Disney…repeatedly…for a while. Soooo…Lexie has now informed all of us that she knows she is going to Disney. Even though we have not confirmed it to her…she pretty much has it figured out.
So, I have been bribing her not to say anything to Jon.
Luckily, Lexie and my motha live about 3 hours away. So, they only talk on the phone. And I have to remind her…every time we talk…not to tell Jon about our “plane ride.”
But Lexie tells me…all the time…how she knows she’s going to see the castle. And I just tell her that the only thing I can tell her is how she’s going on a plane…and the rest is a surprise.
Which brings us to the other night…
Lexie calls me on the phone and again starts her schpiel…
“Tia…did you know me, and gramma, and Jon, and you are packing our bags and going on a plane? And I think we’re going to see Disney. I think we are. What is at Disney Tia? Can you tell me again? Tell me our Disney story.”
Well, I told her what I always tell her.
“Disney is magic Lexie-lou. And you can pretend to be anyone you want to be. You can be a princess or a pirate, or Donald Duck. And you can see pirates and princesses and you can ride rides, and see Mickey Mouse. And maybe…someday Tia will take you.”
To which Lexie replies:
“I wanna pretend to be a princess. And you’re a princess. And Jon’s a pirate. And gramma’s a…gramma’s a…what is gramma Tia? Is gramma a princess or a pirate?”
I almost died. And I guess we’ll have to see when this trip is over. What is gramma Lexie? Is she a princess or a pirate?
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He didn't even flinch when I opened the door. I shut it real quick and we had to walk alllllll the way back over to the main building for a new room. They didn't even know someone was still in the room. 
Your mutha needs to eat. 
If I pack a suitcase, Leo knows where we're going. 
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