theduck619
DIS Dad #188
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- Jul 19, 2007
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Good morning all 

I am starting to think the tag fairy has a crush on Kim..and has had it for years!
The itchy part of my tag isn't bouncing anymore.![]()
Good Morning Jamborinis and Kidanites!
Laura, good luck with the packing. I hope Tori doesn't forget anything.
I hope everyone going to WDW this month has a wonderful trip, great weather and many magical moments!
Kathy
Oh, believe me, I know!!
This upcoming trip will be my 8th trip to WDW this year!!!!!
Oh, my - I just counted and when I get home next week, I will have spent 47 nights at WDW resorts in 2011!! Even I think that's obsessive!!!!
I gotta cut back!!![]()
I am starting to think the tag fairy has a crush on Kim..and has had it for years!
The itchy part of my tag isn't bouncing anymore.![]()
Good morning all![]()
have fun packing, wish I was going with you...It's a Love/Hate relationship!!
Safe travels to you today! Have a wonderful, magical time!!
You are bouncing this morning!
Good morning Jamborinis and Kidanites!![]()
Packing day for me! DD is still at college - she'll be home tonight (hopefully with a packed suitcase since most all her clothes are there with her!!)
Morning and I second that last line...Good Morning Jamborinis and Kidanites!
Laura, good luck with the packing. I hope Tori doesn't forget anything.
I hope everyone going to WDW this month has a wonderful trip, great weather and many magical moments!
Kathy
Thanks, Kathy! Wishing you an awesome trip, perfect weather (the forecast couldn't be better!), and many magical moments for you and your family also!![]()
You arrive the day I leave.
And you arrive the day I leave!!
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I found time yesterday to get my hair cut (hadn't been done since the end of September!) and while I was sitting there I was thinking about my father. Daddy died 19 years ago yesterday and that was the catalyst for our Christmas trips to WDW. We were all together in Pennsylvania that year, of course. And we tried again in 1993 and 1994, but it just didn't work. He "was" Christmas in our family and with his absence we just couldn't make it work right in Pennsylvania any longer. We tried a year here in Virginia but it was so quiet that we couldn't stand it. But the summer of 1996 we took our first trip back to WDW to celebrate the 25th and I found the AOL Disney Boards and read about all the wonderful things that happened at WDW during the holiday season. So, I booked a trip for the girls and me to go back in December. Bob wouldn't go "twice in one year" so we went without him. What a magical time! We did the Christmas Party, the Candlelight Processional and the Jolly Holidays dinner at the Contemporary ballroom. I was emotionally ready for Christmas that year for the first time many years.
We came home on Christmas Eve afternoon and Bob picked us up at the airport. When we got off the plane Kristin said, "Daddy, we are going to go back next year but we are not coming home until after Christmas. So you better decide to go with us!"
Thank goodness he did. Our past 15 years of going to the most magical place on earth have been so wonder-filled. I cannot imagine how we would have made Christmas right again without those memories.
This year we are having a different Christmas again. It will just be three of us since Kathrin is going to Portland, Oregon with Chris to meet his family. She had planned to make a stop here on her way back to Boston, but airfare costs are just too high, so we won't see her at all. That is going to be tough. We have been together for the past 33 years. A new "normal" begins, I suppose. Kristin and her room mate will spend time with us and we will make some new traditions.
I have had time to slowly decorate the house and shop for presents and do some holiday cooking. (Stress level is down!) And as I sat there yesterday thinking about my Dad I remembered how much fun he had having that 14-foot Christmas tree delivered to the house every year. And how much "fun" he had putting it up so the three of us kids could decorate it. I could almost smell that tree. Suddenly, I had to have a REAL tree for our Christmas. I stopped at our produce stand on the way home from the hairdresser and found just the perfect thing. He is about 7 feet tall and lopsided and had a grapevine twirled around his entire trunk. The young couple working there cut the bottom off the trunk (which is oval shaped!) and put him in the trunk of my car. I was able to get him onto the front porch and will set him up today. I cannot wait to have that Christmas smell of old in the house again. The memories will come flooding back and it will be wonderful.
The itchy part of my tag isn't bouncing anymore.![]()
....ok, I'm ready - where are the ZD's??![]()
My itchy is bouncing again but it wasn't last night. Maybe tags don't bounce on a Mac?
Happy Friday!