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We are finally going back to Disney, hurray! 
The title of thread comes from my almost five year old. We have gone once before in March of 2009 when she was 2 years, 9 months old. Since then EVERY time we watch a Disney movie that has the castle at the beginning, she starts jumping up and down screaming "That's where we're going again someday, DISNEY WORLD!!"
We are flying in late on May 31st and staying till June 7th. We are doing it as a birthday celebration for Molly, she will be turning 5 shortly after we get home, June 15th.
So, the cast of characters:
Me, Debby, 28. I'm a speech pathologist and an avid vacation planner. I've been planning this vacation pretty much since we got back from the first one, it's just taken this long for us to feel like we can comfortably pay for a vacation. I'm glad it's worked out that we can do it as a 5th birthday celebration for Molly. I'm silly, sarcastic and prone to bouts of anxiety about things going just right. When it comes to vacations I like to have a PLAN. I get quite uneasy when I don't know what to expect. So for obvious reasons I am the planner for our trips. DH has admitted many times that our first trip was so great because of how meticulously I had planned our days.
DH, Cory, 28. He enjoys our vacations, but never actually jumps up and announces a need to take one. He'd pretty happily just take a vacation to our couch. He puts up with me though and my constant need to plan a vacation. I suppose we temper each other because if it was just what I wanted, we'd be at Disney a couple of times a year, plus other vacations thrown in and if it was up to him we'd take a trip once every 10 years or so!
He's a very funny, silly guy and I love him to pieces. He lets me plan every part of our trip and really doesn't want any say in anything. He trusts me to get it done (I could NEVER do what he does!) He works for Farmers Insurance as an arbitration OCR (when you get in wreck if the two companies can't agree on who is at fault it goes to him and he writes a "contention" basically arguing why Farmers client isn't at fault.)
This is the two of us, shortly before we got married, about 6 years ago
I looked better then than I do now.
Onto the star of our trip, our almost 5 year old daughter, Molly. She's...well, she's something else entirely. She's currently an only child, but we work hard not to spoil her. Hopefully someday she'll have a sibling. She is VERY precocious and creative. She's often in her own little made up world. She's super social and talks to practically everyone we see. She really is one of a kind, as I'm sure you'll see. She loves all things princess, as do most little girls. She has been begging to back since the day we got home from our last trip.
This pic kind of sums up Molly in a nutshell
and a pic from our WDW trip when she was 2 years, 9 months.
MIL, Christie, 49. This is DH's mom. She is quite young for a grandma and she doesn't look her age, but sometimes she acts like she's 20 years older. She and Molly adore each other and are two peas in a pod. So far as I know she's only been to WDW once and never to DLR. She's a very sweet, fun lady and I am grateful she is my MIL :-D
FIL, Rick, 52 (53, by the time our trip rolls around). Scares people the first time he meets them, because he's so quiet, and seems very serious. Once you get to know him, he's reserved, but very funny and goofy. He's just shy I see him and MIL asking for early nights and him particularly asking for wine regularly. He's not really a fun and games kind of guy, but when it comes to Molly and MIL, he'll do just about anything to please them.
MIL and FIL are hoping to join us for 3-4 days of our trip, including Friday and Saturday. MIL hopes she can stay the whole time, but we'll see how their work schedule comes together.
The title of thread comes from my almost five year old. We have gone once before in March of 2009 when she was 2 years, 9 months old. Since then EVERY time we watch a Disney movie that has the castle at the beginning, she starts jumping up and down screaming "That's where we're going again someday, DISNEY WORLD!!"We are flying in late on May 31st and staying till June 7th. We are doing it as a birthday celebration for Molly, she will be turning 5 shortly after we get home, June 15th.
So, the cast of characters:
Me, Debby, 28. I'm a speech pathologist and an avid vacation planner. I've been planning this vacation pretty much since we got back from the first one, it's just taken this long for us to feel like we can comfortably pay for a vacation. I'm glad it's worked out that we can do it as a 5th birthday celebration for Molly. I'm silly, sarcastic and prone to bouts of anxiety about things going just right. When it comes to vacations I like to have a PLAN. I get quite uneasy when I don't know what to expect. So for obvious reasons I am the planner for our trips. DH has admitted many times that our first trip was so great because of how meticulously I had planned our days.
DH, Cory, 28. He enjoys our vacations, but never actually jumps up and announces a need to take one. He'd pretty happily just take a vacation to our couch. He puts up with me though and my constant need to plan a vacation. I suppose we temper each other because if it was just what I wanted, we'd be at Disney a couple of times a year, plus other vacations thrown in and if it was up to him we'd take a trip once every 10 years or so!
He's a very funny, silly guy and I love him to pieces. He lets me plan every part of our trip and really doesn't want any say in anything. He trusts me to get it done (I could NEVER do what he does!) He works for Farmers Insurance as an arbitration OCR (when you get in wreck if the two companies can't agree on who is at fault it goes to him and he writes a "contention" basically arguing why Farmers client isn't at fault.)
This is the two of us, shortly before we got married, about 6 years ago
I looked better then than I do now.
Onto the star of our trip, our almost 5 year old daughter, Molly. She's...well, she's something else entirely. She's currently an only child, but we work hard not to spoil her. Hopefully someday she'll have a sibling. She is VERY precocious and creative. She's often in her own little made up world. She's super social and talks to practically everyone we see. She really is one of a kind, as I'm sure you'll see. She loves all things princess, as do most little girls. She has been begging to back since the day we got home from our last trip.
This pic kind of sums up Molly in a nutshell
and a pic from our WDW trip when she was 2 years, 9 months.
MIL, Christie, 49. This is DH's mom. She is quite young for a grandma and she doesn't look her age, but sometimes she acts like she's 20 years older. She and Molly adore each other and are two peas in a pod. So far as I know she's only been to WDW once and never to DLR. She's a very sweet, fun lady and I am grateful she is my MIL :-D
FIL, Rick, 52 (53, by the time our trip rolls around). Scares people the first time he meets them, because he's so quiet, and seems very serious. Once you get to know him, he's reserved, but very funny and goofy. He's just shy
I see him and MIL asking for early nights and him particularly asking for wine regularly. He's not really a fun and games kind of guy, but when it comes to Molly and MIL, he'll do just about anything to please them.
MIL and FIL are hoping to join us for 3-4 days of our trip, including Friday and Saturday. MIL hopes she can stay the whole time, but we'll see how their work schedule comes together.
