Make a Wish (and other organizations) ~ Wish Trippers UNITE! Volume FOUR!

[kailatilear]

I cannot believe we are 1 month and 1 week from Abby's wish coming true!!!!!

I feel like such a kid I am having such a hard time sleeping and I dream of Disney every night

I am slowly planning our trip, however, I am also trying not to plan too much, since from what I have heard and read, GKTW offeres so many tickets to things, that we may want to do something they offer instead of something else. I hope that makes sense.

How do you contain your excitment to make it the next month without bursting from the insides?

I know I don't post as much as I would like to due to kids, work and actual life, but I am constantly reading this thread and everyones ptr's and tr's.

 

[jj0plin]

I cannot believe we are 1 month and 1 week from Abby's wish coming true!!!!!

I feel like such a kid I am having such a hard time sleeping and I dream of Disney every night

I am slowly planning our trip, however, I am also trying not to plan too much, since from what I have heard and read, GKTW offeres so many tickets to things, that we may want to do something they offer instead of something else. I hope that makes sense.

How do you contain your excitment to make it the next month without bursting from the insides?

I know I don't post as much as I would like to due to kids, work and actual life, but I am constantly reading this thread and everyones ptr's and tr's.

woohoo! hopefully the time will fly by!

I am not sure how to contain excitement... I have months to go, heck no date has even been set, and it's all I think about too!!!

 

[twinmum]

I cannot believe we are 1 month and 1 week from Abby's wish coming true!!!!!

I feel like such a kid I am having such a hard time sleeping and I dream of Disney every night

I am slowly planning our trip, however, I am also trying not to plan too much, since from what I have heard and read, GKTW offeres so many tickets to things, that we may want to do something they offer instead of something else. I hope that makes sense.

How do you contain your excitment to make it the next month without bursting from the insides?

I know I don't post as much as I would like to due to kids, work and actual life, but I am constantly reading this thread and everyones ptr's and tr's.

Your message put a big smile on my face, Our son's Wish Trip was way back in November 2008, but I will always remember all the excitement and anticipation - in some ways, this was just as much fun as the actual trip!

How to manage through the waiting? Well, I can't say I really recommend our approach: we were embarking on a major renovation to make our house more accessible for our son (he has cerebral palsy), so our last month of waiting was spent purging, packing and preparing to move out for 6 months. In fact, we left for the Wish Trip from our own house and returned to our rental! Talk about lots of work to distract you...

I haven't seen the age of your child(ren) but I know some families like to catch up on Disney movies and refresh their memories of their favourite characters. One family organized weekly Disney family movie nights with amazing themed dinners. I thought that sounded like a great idea.

Good luck with the waiting!

 

[jj0plin]

I'd like to send a Thank You card to Elliot's wish granters, for the gifts they brought over when they visited this past weekend. All I have for them is their cell numbers and email addresses. I thought about making a digital thank you "card" and emailing it to them, maybe with pictures of the kids with their goodies? Are emails too impersonal? Should I just get one and send it to the local chapter, addressed to them?

 

[luvmygrlz3]

It is sooo hard to contain our excitement here...our trip is on March 3 and I want it to hurry up and get here but also want it to take it's time. I know as soon as it does get here, the sooner it will be over...I just want this time to last forever! My girls are all soooo excited! AND SO ARE MY DH AND I!!

I have a quick question though...

My girls get very nervous, excited, etc...almost to the point of making themselves sick when something big is coming up. Almost like they work themselves up so much that they get sick. We just got home from a long awaited trip to Great Wolf Lodge that my IL's got them for their Christmas present. My youngest was sick to her stomach (about to throw up, etc) until the day after we arrived there. I want my girls to be able to look forward to something w/o getting sooo worked up about it. I am really of thinking about not telling them how close the date is coming...and maybe not even telling them until we are leaving that morning! I thought that giving them plenty of time to get used to idea of the trip would be good, but that completely backfired on me with the Great Wolf Lodge trip. I don't know what to do...any advice? I am going to post this on my PTR too so if you see the duplicate post, that's why. Thanks in advance for any advice! All is welcome.

 

[luvmygrlz3]

I'd like to send a Thank You card to Elliot's wish granters, for the gifts they brought over when they visited this past weekend. All I have for them is their cell numbers and email addresses. I thought about making a digital thank you "card" and emailing it to them, maybe with pictures of the kids with their goodies? Are emails too impersonal? Should I just get one and send it to the local chapter, addressed to them?

I would probably just send them a card addressed to their local chapter w/ their names on it. Is there address on the email in their letter head?

 

[tinytreasures]

woohoo! hopefully the time will fly by!

I am not sure how to contain excitement... I have months to go, heck no date has even been set, and it's all I think about too!!!

I agree we don't even know if we get to go yet and I get butterflies every time I think about going.
I also get this feeling when I think about going on a plane to get there too (I hate to fly)

 

[Blessed03]

I am excited to be a part of these boards but cannot seem to get into my profile to add to my thread any help would be great!

 

[MitoDadMO]

If you are like our family, you require a bit of planning to goto the local Wal-mart let alone a trip to Disney. A kid in a wheelchair in Disney has really had me worrying about logistics for rides etc. Today I found the Park map/guides for people with disabilities.

I heard these were hard to find online so when I found them I knew I had to post here.

Hollywood Studios

Magic Kingdom

Epcot

Animal Kingdom

 

[Happy Dreams1]

I cannot believe we are 1 month and 1 week from Abby's wish coming true!!!!!

I feel like such a kid I am having such a hard time sleeping and I dream of Disney every night

I am slowly planning our trip, however, I am also trying not to plan too much, since from what I have heard and read, GKTW offeres so many tickets to things, that we may want to do something they offer instead of something else. I hope that makes sense.

How do you contain your excitment to make it the next month without bursting from the insides?

I know I don't post as much as I would like to due to kids, work and actual life, but I am constantly reading this thread and everyones ptr's and tr's.

YAY!

 

[Happy Dreams1]

My father finally called MAW again since we turned in our papers and everything in October and have not yet confirmation of eligibility. ( not even that). My dad called and the lady and him talked for around ten minutes. She asked loads of questions fo my health, of my family, and the situation with the papers. Long story short, she said that she would get a volunteer to work on our case straight away and to be expecting a call. She spoke about the interview. She said somehthing like, (in Spanish) " If she is eligible, we'll set up an interview with two volunteers and both Mom and Dad must be present...bla bla bla..." Although we still havent recieved elgibility confirmation, the situation with MAW is better that it was before. She nice and told my dad to tell me that they haven't forgotten about me.

I have a doubt, though. She mentioned that if my sibling was older than 18 (she's 21 in a week), she could not participate in the wish. that's horrible. Since I plan to travel, would she have to stay? She can't stay home alone because my parents wouldn't allow it...so that would bring more problems such as if one parent should stay behind and it would be only my mom or my dad and I. I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but she was pretty clear that my sister could not participate if it was not a local activity.

 

[Manymosi]

I cannot believe we are 1 month and 1 week from Abby's wish coming true!!!!!

I feel like such a kid I am having such a hard time sleeping and I dream of Disney every night


How do you contain your excitment to make it the next month without bursting from the insides?

I know I don't post as much as I would like to due to kids, work and actual life, but I am constantly reading this thread and everyones ptr's and tr's.

It is sooo hard to contain our excitement here...our trip is on March 3 and I want it to hurry up and get here but also want it to take it's time. I know as soon as it does get here, the sooner it will be over...I just want this time to last forever! My girls are all soooo excited! AND SO ARE MY DH AND I!!

We leave this Saturday! It seems like the last few days have flown by too fast - almost like I need the days to slow down so we can make sure we are completely ready.

Today we got our packet from Make A Wish with our itinerary and other info, a very generous expense check and t-shirts for everyone. I still cannot believe how generous our chapter has been to fly eight of us, to stay in Wilderness Lodge, and give us an extra day at Disney!

 

[luvmygrlz3]

We leave this Saturday! It seems like the last few days have flown by too fast - almost like I need the days to slow down so we can make sure we are completely ready.

Today we got our packet from Make A Wish with our itinerary and other info, a very generous expense check and t-shirts for everyone. I still cannot believe how generous our chapter has been to fly eight of us, to stay in Wilderness Lodge, and give us an extra day at Disney!

Oh wow! I am soooo excited for you guys and can't wait to hear about it when ya'll get back!

 

[tinytreasures]

I am excited to be a part of these boards but cannot seem to get into my profile to add to my thread any help would be great!

Welcome
Go to the top left hand side of any page. Click on "user CP" then scroll down to edit siggy

 

[lawblond7]

Can you add our trip to the wish list. Jake is going (along with his 2 brothers and my mom) to Disney - GKTW on January 39 - February 3rd. I started our PTR just yesterday - mainly as we were not sure exactly WHAT Jake wanted to do - he decided betweeen meeting Kyle Busch and goin to a NASCAR race (but decided he has been to a few and we usually go to one a year) or host sports center and go to ESPN - but then he decided he did not want to go to Bristol CT, then it was maybe Disneyland as he has never been there BUT in the end he decided on Disney and as he turns 18 in April, he decided he wanted to go now and as the kids are off school Monday and Tuesday (31st and 1st) the timing worked well, and I HOPEFULLY will be a bit slower at work. All 3 of my boys have a mitochondrial disease and 2 (Jake and Clay) are g-tube dependent.

 

[lawblond7]

The Daytona Speedway is a little over an hour from Orlando - not a bad drive if not during Rush Hour. BUT note that the 2 weeks you will be there WILL be speed weeks. The Daytona 500 is Sunday Febraury 20th and the Nationwide race in the 19th and the February 12th is the Budwiser shootout. You also have the duels on Thursday the 17th -- You may want to go to one of those - while I do not think GKTW or MAW can get you tickets does not hurt to ask and well worth it - I went to the 500 in 2004 and we thought about scheduling Jake's trip then BUT my mom will be out of town and as a single mom I need a second set of hands and my partner (Roger) whom I live with - he gets a lot less vacation I do so he cannot get off - he took a week during christmans/new years to visit my mom in Florida with me and he will be going on Cole's wish.

Daytona is pretty cool to see the speedway

 

[MitoDadMO]

People talk about subscribing to PTRs, can someone tell me how to do that? Also check out the addition to my sig, i have added a link to our family website.

 

[blessedmom4]

People talk about subscribing to PTRs, can someone tell me how to do that? Also check out the addition to my sig, i have added a link to our family website.

Look up over lawblond7 post to where it says Thread Tools (white writing, dark blue box). It is under the box that tells you what page of the thread you are on.Click on that link and then click on subscribe to thread and follow the prompts. HTH and my "directions" make sense.

 

[HeatherSP]

Make A Wish called this morning confirming that they have all of our paperwork and have begun to work on Lhea's wish. We will be flying out bright and early April 15 with a 7 am flight. We will return late April 21 leaving at 9pm. I like the flight times because it gives us more time in Florida. But since this is Friday -Thursday we will miss christmas at GKTW But I am NOT complaining. This is going to be a trip of a lifetime

 

[lawblond7]

Heather that is great -- we will not be there on a Thursday either but Friday to Thursday works best for us too. We are leaving next Friday and STILL do not know what time our plane is - lol. Hoping to find out this week.