Hey everyone,
Sorry we've been MIA for a couple of weeks, but we've ogt a lot going on. On a whim, my DW was surfing the Internet for a house (our current house, while we love it dearly, has clearly come too small for us - we are bursting at the seams), and in the span of two days, we bought at new house for a SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNT (sellers have a house that they have already purchased). That's the good news. The bad news is that we have to move on SEPTEMBER 1ST. That's 12 days from now, for all of you counting. So we're talking about finding a mortgage lender (done in one day), transferring my son's school (done is one day), notifying all of the utilities (in process) locating a mover who can take us on the busiest weekend of the year (not done yet), not to mention packing up a house full of seven years of stuff. Oh, and there's the little thing about selling my house and getting it ready,so I have been working from dawn to dusk to make improvements to our house in order to put it on the market.
Whew. I keep waking up at between 2 and 4 in the morning either because a) my body is in pain because of all of the work I've been doing (like yesterday, I demolished a 40-year-old shed) or b) to make hay while the sun shines or c) because I am so stressed out. It's probably a combination of the three.
That said, when the deadline approaches to fax in our Palo brunch request, I'll certainly make sure that everyone who wants in is on the list. Given the amount of people who have asked in (and I think that the room only holds 14 people), we may have to split it up into two groups. I'll keep everyone posted.
A very stressed out and sore Mark
might I have you revisit the 1st post of this thread. You will then see that it is a Founding MOTHER 
not FATHER 
of this thread!!!!!!!
I've notice some people are staying at the Radisson (can't remember if it was in this forum or not) - any other recommendations? What about car rentals? Can drop-off/pick-ups be done at the hotel? What about shuttles to the port? I'm sure this has been asked and answered before but I'm now too excited to search! 
! Just hope we don't get dinged too bad changing our flight arrival date with DCL 
And a great BIG congratulations on the adoption of your son - that's awesome! 
(hence the re-booking) and once we made up our mind what we wanted to do next March we had no trouble settling on Disney as the cruiseline-cannot imagine cruising with anyone else! 
We did the 7-day western March 11-18. We thought we were playing it safe by bringing a pharmacy with us 
). Create a positive mantra for yourself "it will be over in 2 weeks, it will be over in 2 weeks, it will be over in 2 weeks, it...well, you get the picture). Good luck on the move
