"OUR BIG, FAT DISNEY VACATION!" Ch.26 NEW! 2/11 pg. 121 "And they lived happily ever&

[UtahMama]

RE: My love never was divided by 4, it was multiplied times 4! I've heard it said that you grow a new heart every time you have another child....I think this is true and could explain the extra weight....at least in my case. Great installment!

Thanks
My heart must weigh 30 pounds then....and I'm sitting on it as we speak!

 

[UtahMama]

I agree with twinksissaborg that is tres funny when it's not your own child you're reading about. I want to be there when you guys trade kids for a night! Plus, reading the LeSilly episode reinforces why Doc and I always dine alone for one nice meal each trip. It's a sanity check for each other, and a chance for Princess to establish new friendships with CMs in a controlled setting (can anyone say, Cub's Den?).

LeSilly!!!! OMGosh!

I think we looked into getting a Fairy Godmother to sit with them...3 kids times like 20.00 an hour.... Jordan could go off and do whatever it is he does...Arcade? Trollin' for babes?

Jordan is 17 and he's great with them until Norah poops. Know what I mean?
I havent "dated" my DH since before wewere married 10 years ago. Unless you count a 30 minute trip to Walmart whild Jordan watches them...Heck!

If I were kidless, I dont know what I'd do with myself...eat without sharing with the mooches, sleep without being poked? Go on big-girl rides?

 

[UtahMama]

So glad you are BACK!!! I have to say, listening to your account of dinner made me smile!! Helps to realize that MY kids are among the normal!

Sorry about the sugar episode.......but at least it only lasted 30 minutes and didn't really put a damper on your day!! Stay away from the sugar next time woman!

Excited to hear about the dirty laundry!

Thanks! I will! Or maybe just a teeny taste!

 

[pilferk]

If she still needs it - a pillow to hug while coughing/sneezing really helps (I popped internal & external stitches with the Ragweed) to hold everything together.

Sorry to hijack - still lovin' the TR!

Yeah, that's what she would do when sitting down. But if a coughing fit hit when she was standing....WHOA Nellie!!

And I'll tell her about the bellydancing thing.....I'd consider myself a pretty lucky guy if she bought in to doing it.

 

[UtahMama]

Well I have to give your one son props for ingenuity. I would have encouraged the bread stick puppets.

Thanks for the new report! Keep 'em coming.

Bread Sticks puppets IS pretty ingenius! If I wasnt in such a Mood????

Thanks!

 

[sharkB8HooHaHa]

YEEEAAAAHHHHH! A new installment! And a great one at that. I've taken that boat to the Boardwalk and didn't think it could possibly get any hotter. I was on the verge of abandoning ship and swimming for it, but I thought it would be unfair to DH, what with 3 little bites, the stroller, 2 back packs....

And the "pissy" CM? I met his sister at POTC.

 

[redheaded mama]

What a fun installment.

Your le Cellier experience is adding to my pre-trip panic. (Check out my avatar, I usually am panicked). The other day I took my girls to a small town cafe where napkins and manners are optional. They were awful. What kind of mother am I? Is it too late to teach them manners? I have four girls. Aren't girls supposed to be well behaved?

I hope Disney is ready for us. We'll be there in a month, destroying the restaurants, talking too loud and wiping our mouths on our sleeves.

Redheaded mama

 

[tommygirl79]

Aaaahhh....yes! Great installment! UMama - I'm glad you found the camera. Sorry to hear it was broken later in the trip but, if you're anything like me, those pictures were worth more than 3 times the camera. I get sick at the thought of losing pictures of my kiddos - That's my biggest fear if our house would ever catch on fire.

I'm thinking you are only SLIGHTLY pink regarding redneckness. We'll call you medium-rare!

I tried to do the whole really nice Le Cellier thing in January. I tried to pretend we were uppity but gave in about halfway through the meal. My assumption is that it's Disney - and if it's a place we're allowed to wear jeans and t-shirts into, I'm not stressing! So, I guess my redneckity goes a little deepers than yours - we'll call mine a medium-well. How do I know?....This is my then DD2 in Le Cellier - I should have made her stop, but instead laughed and took a pic!

I love the pic of you and Norah! It's like Disney personified even though you were sick. She's all happy and bubbly in her stroller with a balloon and chilling and the mom is sacked out. It's great isn't it???

Keep up the good work!

 

[jordansmomma]

Oh UM i feel for you on the sugar thing. I had a gastric bypass 5 years ago and if i have more than a bite of something sweet i feel as though i am dying!! The first time i had "dumping syndrome" i swear i was dying.

I thought only my two loverly sons had such great manners in fanch schmancy place

Dirty ???

 

[sheridac]

I wrote the following down in my TR notebook and it frustrates me to this day:

"I look up and I am not exagerating at my family's actions: DH is cutting his buttered bread stick with his steak knife and fork with his used napkin on the table. He keeps saying it's because his hands are too big to hold his knife and fork properly...I'm troubled why he isn't picking up his bread stick with his fingers. DS17 is busily slurping the last precious drops of his smoothy with his straw loudly... he looks up at my "Tsking" and whispers, "WHAT?". DS8 has two breadsticks impailed on his pointer and "tall man" fingers and is making them edible finger puppets, DS6 is spitting back his ice into his glass. NO ONE is taking my guidance(nagging). No one has his napkin on his lap. No one is even USING his napkins...sleeves again..."

Look at it this way. At least nobody took their shoes off and started pickin' at their toe jam!!!

Or did they??

 

[spongemommie05]

QUOTE=UtahMama]Since we were at the World Showcase…we had yet another covert mission to attend to.

We needed to deliver some stale taffy [wrapped up pretty to the Boardwalk Villas for KPK89 (aka: “Kim,” the self-proclaimed meanest mama in the whole world!). She JUST happened to be privy to a conversation earlier in the month regarding my yummy mystery treats I’d be handing out to the DOZENS of lime green wearing DIS peeps I’d be constantly running into, and asked if she could have one too. So I found out her real name and check in date and it was “considered done”. No, I wasn’t playing favorites or kissing up or anything else. I wasn’t even going to mention it. I just wanted to have key cameo roles in other people’s Trip Reports….NOT!

Boardwalk Villas is a VERY convenient resort location-wise because there’s a walking distance entrance into the World Showcase. OR, you can take a nice boat ride. Given a choice between burning a few calories and sitting on my bum…we chose the boat. Plus it was hot. HOT! I was feeling very hot all of a sudden. On the boat. My heart was just pounding. I think someone was talking about those doggone Lovebugs. Someone who sounded like he knew what he was talking about. Something about the current rate of reproduction will cause swarming. Biblical plague-type swarming. The walk from the boat to the Resort check-in area was probably beautiful. Now I was sweating from every pore. Made it to the comfy over-stuft couches, which are probably just gorgeous, if the room would stop spinning …and the tunnel vision...heart pounding...sweating…..couch...darkness!!!

See, I have a interesting condition with sugar. That apricot pastry I had just eaten 20 minutes before and LOVED must have been loaded with sugar. It’s when I eat too much sugar or alcohol all at once, it dumps into my pancreas suddenly instead of gradually. It happens with a lot of refined carbohydrates and rice or "regular" soda pop! Sometimes, a restaurant employee will give me "regular" soda instead of "diet" and I about DIE! Luckily, it doesn’t happen very often. Sometimes, I get away with more than “just a taste” of a dessert. But when it’s especially good, I risk it! Which is stupid. I can NEVER finish one that isn’t sugar-free. Luckily there’s a lot of diabetic choices at Walt Disney World.

I only was out for a minute. I didn’t need medical help for it because the entire ordeal lasts exactly 30 minutes!!! Weird, huh? And it did. After the 30 minutes, I was perfectly fine! I had to explain to a few worried Boardwalk CM’s that I was fine. I just blamed the heat. Which is true! During an episode my body temperature raises to 120 degrees, feels like it anyway! *Thank you for NOT asking if I was pregnant!!!!! Four is PLENTY. Heck, TWO is plenty, BTW. Just Kidding Riley and Norah! Mama loves you oodles! My love never was divided by 4, it was multiplied times 4!

I don’t like anyone making a big deal when I’m “sick”. Especially my DH. Who was struggling with wanting to comfort me (which I didn’t want)…and wanting to wring my neck for over-doing the sugar. See? BE GLAD YOU’RE NOT MARRIED TO ME!!

My DH is glad he’s married to me, only because I entertain him almost constantly. Even and especially when I make stupid choices! Which is frequent enough.

So I sent him away to explore this spectacular resort! GOOD choice Kimmie!
While I recovered and applied fresh lip gloss. My Dh gave the magnificent gift to the guest services fellow…and I hoped they’d present it to her at check in, NOT days later like at POR and my gift from TwinkieMama! The whole POINT is to START the magic…even if it’s just taffy that was pulled right in front of my eyes 3 weeks prior (making it very stale by the time Kim got it…SO SORRY!).

DH took loads of pictures of this resort with it’s fabulous early century theming!
I think it made us further consider getting a Disney Vacation Club membership for our family! Plus it’s right by Spoodles! If you are about to head out on vacation soonly, please go check it out. Vera Loverly, I promise.Take your camera.

I found out later that DH had attempted to have tuxedo strawberries delivered for my birthday from this fabulous bakery at BV but for some reason they did not or could not accommodate that. It’s the thought that counts, though. Norah charmed a few CM’s into a balloon and a Wiggles sticker.

They flirted with her and played peek a boo. Probably thought this poor little girl’s mama was crazy for lying down on their nice couches. OK, my feet were ON the floor, I’m not completely white trash! (Sweetie, get mama her Big Gulp, please!)

Little did we know, DH had left his $300.00 camera in the gift shop at the BV when he was digging through his pocket for .51 cents (times 2) for Dallen and Riley to get a pressed penny souvineer. He didn’t realize till we had gone all the way back to the World Showcase and back allll the way to ride Figments Journey Through Imagination (which is cute and air conditioned!)! We checked the camera bag, the diaper bag, my purse, his “murse”, under the baby, the stroller, the cooler, the kids pockets…everywhere! So we double checked and declared it lost. No Camera anywhere! He was freaked! ALL our pictures were in that camera! He took off back by himself to retrace our steps and to check if anyone had turned it in. His family would only slow him down so the rest of us headed over to do my favorite ride: SOARIN’!!!

I’m from California. I grew up in Brea. North of Anaheim home of Disneyland. I’ve been or am very familiar with all the scenes and smells depicted on this ride. Makes me teary and very homesick. But!!! then I remember how much it costs to live there these days and remember my highly dysfunctional family resides there, and I decide it’s better to ride Soarin’ than to live there again. Trust me. Ohhhh, trust me, there.

Jordan waited with Norah and I took Dallen and Riley excitedly through the line for the ride. Where there was a red-haired young pimply CM in a mood. He directed us to just any line and I nicely said, “No, we want to ride without feet in our view. Could you tell us where to go for that?…” NOT an unreasonable request. One he should have graciously directed us to our footlees-view line. That would have been easy for him. Oh nooo! He got an attitude and subtly yet obviously rolled his pretty blue eyes at ME! And pointed to another CM with a drama queen sigh, “UGHHhhhh…JUST GO WHERE EVER YOU WANT!” he said to me! I stood there. Maintained eye contact disturbingly long. He blinked (I won the staring contest) and I said, “Are you finished?” He didn't stammer. “Uh, YES.” I narrowed my eyes just a little and glanced noticibly down to his name tag..."Wow, I just was askin'! Is the attitude necessary, BRAD??” (not his real name). He looked uncomfortable and apologized. So I left with, “Please don’t take out any bad moods on people who just ask a simple question” (which had worked with the Bell Services rotten teeth "lady" a few days before.)

What I did was jot down some gobbledy-gook in my little notebook within his view. Like that would intimidate anyone! But, I like to pretend I'm a secret shopper in these situations. I am sure he saw me write in my notebook because I smiled at him and he looked away. I would have played the "DONT YOU KNOW WHO I AM" card had he been any ruder. THAT is the extreme emergency card to play, FYI. Instead, The Passive-Aggressive card worked very well.

Outside of Soarin', we ran into our bus family again. The little girl actually hugged me which I loved. ONLY at Disney can you bond on a bus and keep running into each other and be on a hugging basis with the cutest little kids ever!

DH had found his precious camera, thank God, (it was being held at the gift shop for him by a very nice and honest CM) and rode Soarin with all three boys while I continued to chat with my bus family.



We had tried for two years to get to dine at Le Cellier ("Luh Cell-ee-yay") but this was our first year with ADR knowledge, thanks to the DISboards. We had scored some 8:00 ADR's, which we were very excited about. The front podium CM's were VERY nice. I was ready for them not to be, thanks to a dining report I had read.

Some of you have hesitated to belive me about our red-nekkid-ness. I am about to remove ALL doubt and proudly proclaim my spot in the social pecking order.

I wont rave about the food. It was decent. I could have done without the fake bacon-bits in my cheese soup, though.

Maybe I was PMS'sy or moody or something at this meal. OR, maybe I just expected my family to suddenly have a little manners or just to pretend for my benefit.

I wrote the following down in my TR notebook and it frustrates me to this day:

"I look up and I am not exagerating at my family's actions: DH is cutting his buttered bread stick with his steak knife and fork with his used napkin on the table. He keeps saying it's because his hands are too big to hold his knife and fork properly...I'm troubled why he isn't picking up his bread stick with his fingers. DS17 is busily slurping the last precious drops of his smoothy with his straw loudly... he looks up at my "Tsking" and whispers, "WHAT?". DS8 has two breadsticks impailed on his pointer and "tall man" fingers and is making them edible finger puppets, DS6 is spitting back his ice into his glass. NO ONE is taking my guidance(nagging). No one has his napkin on his lap. No one is even USING his napkins...sleeves again..." I just tried to focus on my plate and my primadonna manners...

See? I was pissy. I was being hateful when I should have been enjoying our meal we had waited for. I want a do-over!!! I want to practice and nicely educate my family on which fork to use and how to hold a knife. Our meals at home are loud and manners-optional. But my family was having a great time. Until my nagging! I totally ruined our meal. At least for me.

Here's my boys with their robots from earlier in the day when we first sat down:

Next time: THE AIRING OF DIRTY LAUNDRY! [/QUOTE] Sorry about your pass out .my feet would have been on the couch, as my kids were running around introducing themselves to everyone.. over and over or cam telling them how many hot wheel cars he has at home the long 3 yr old version......it could have been worse trust me. i hate when that happens to me but a nice cherry pepsi and my friend phenegran make it better well about 15 mins later. i wish i was there for the telling off of cm that would have been classic i would have been rolling on the ground laughing . i can see you in my mind..
omgosh! you are way too hard on yourself umamma , just imagine my kids in a fancy resteraunt. my kids would be acting out a scene from bionicles with there breadsticks and dh would be playing along. you might be a redneck if....... glad udaddy found his camera i can see him freaking out. in his calm but angry manner.. great report
can't wait for the dirty laundry installment, that reminds me i gotta go do some so my kids won't go to school naked..... love ya ...

 

[spongemommie05]

sorry about that still figuring out this place .didn't mean to post the whole installment on the page .baby crying on my lap......won't let him play electronic spongebob yahtzee.....

 

[UtahMama]

sorry about that still figuring out this place .didn't mean to post the whole installment on the page .baby crying on my lap......won't let him play electronic spongebob yahtzee.....

Hi Mayson!!!! How's my big boy????

Look at you!!!


I 'm gonna eat you!!!!


PEEK A BOO!!!!

BOO!

GOT YOUR NOSE!!!!


kisskisskisskisskisskiss.....

 

[spongemommie05]

Hi Mayson!!!! How's my big boy????

Look at you!!!


I 'm gonna eat you!!!!


PEEK A BOO!!!!

BOO!

GOT YOUR NOSE!!!!


kisskisskisskisskisskiss.....

2MMMMDKKDKKKIDSKIDFJIVFDSFJSDFSDFJKSDFDFKL;SDL;SKAKL;;SDFLJK
MAYSON SAY'S HI!

 

[SweetSally]

I feel all warm and fuzzy because I got my first post reply THANK YOU UtahMama

Thanks Sally!

LOVE your avatar by the way! Do you have pin striping on your bumper too?

There are very few who know the answer to that!

YES! Boardwalk is a hidden treasure-trove! Next time I'd love to explore alot more! THAT would make a great DVC home! Especially since I cant express in words how much I LOVE World Showcase! Very Convenient!

I truly loved the vintage appeal of a by-gone era.

The vintage appeal is what I love best

I know my family is "normal" (but tacky!) and I love em...it just seemed that the other people in Le Cellier had SOME manners training! I should relax. I probably wont book VERY nice ADR's till I'm able to get a sitter for them or have a date with DH!

I know it's not always possible with kids in tow, but relaxing is the best part of vacation Besides, some that have had manners training obviously skipped the how-to-have-fun courses.

 

[tammyandtommy]

finally caught up, took me all day, but I finally made it! Now I am off to work on my own little report! Nite all

 

[tink38]

"I look up and I am not exagerating at my family's actions: DH is cutting his buttered bread stick with his steak knife and fork with his used napkin on the table. He keeps saying it's because his hands are too big to hold his knife and fork properly...I'm troubled why he isn't picking up his bread stick with his fingers. DS17 is busily slurping the last precious drops of his smoothy with his straw loudly... he looks up at my "Tsking" and whispers, "WHAT?". DS8 has two breadsticks impailed on his pointer and "tall man" fingers and is making them edible finger puppets, DS6 is spitting back his ice into his glass. NO ONE is taking my guidance(nagging). No one has his napkin on his lap. No one is even USING his napkins...sleeves again..." I just tried to focus on my plate and my primadonna manners...

OMG!!!!! I am SOOO glad I decided to wait until AFTER I read this before I had my lunch!

There is spit all over my desk, monitor, and clothes now, missy!

 

[daisy_77]

UM-I am loving your TR so far! I look forward to reading more!

 

[monymony3471]

"I look up and I am not exagerating at my family's actions: DH is cutting his buttered bread stick with his steak knife and fork with his used napkin on the table. He keeps saying it's because his hands are too big to hold his knife and fork properly...I'm troubled why he isn't picking up his bread stick with his fingers. DS17 is busily slurping the last precious drops of his smoothy with his straw loudly... he looks up at my "Tsking" and whispers, "WHAT?". DS8 has two breadsticks impailed on his pointer and "tall man" fingers and is making them edible finger puppets, DS6 is spitting back his ice into his glass. NO ONE is taking my guidance(nagging). No one has his napkin on his lap. No one is even USING his napkins...sleeves again..." I just tried to focus on my plate and my primadonna manners...

Is that all it takes to be a redneck?! Sign my family up! Are you sure you weren't taking notes of our last trip to Red Robin?

 

[monymony3471]

Little did we know, DH had left his $300.00 camera in the gift shop at the BV when he was digging through his pocket for .51 cents (times 2) for Dallen and Riley to get a pressed penny souvineer. He didn’t realize till we had gone all the way back to the World Showcase and back allll the way to ride Figments Journey Through Imagination (which is cute and air conditioned!)! We checked the camera bag, the diaper bag, my purse, his “murse”, under the baby, the stroller, the cooler, the kids pockets…everywhere! So we double checked and declared it lost. No Camera anywhere! He was freaked! ALL our pictures were in that camera! He took off back by himself to retrace our steps and to check if anyone had turned it in. His family would only slow him down so the rest of us headed over to do my favorite ride: SOARIN’!!!

Last year at MGM my husband lost his work phone. He said the last ride him and the boys rode was RNRRC. I told him to go back there and look and he wouldn't. His attitude was no one would be honest and return it.

I went right up to the ride and entered through the exit, (sounds bad I know)
went right up to a CM running the ride and asked if they found a such and such phone. Sure 'nough, they had it at the control podium. I loved the look on DH face when I came back pretending I was talking on it.