Our OWN Year of a Million Dreams : )

[lennon2004]

I have no suggestions, but I love this thread, and because of it I read your trip report earlier today and enjoyed it as well.

 

[MOREMICKEY4ME]

OH, OH, OH, PICK ME - PICK ME- I HAVE SUGGESTIONS!!!


I'm a mom too, and I am always saying how I would love to spend time with my old friends. I say call a few of her old (or new) friends and arrange a lunch or dinner date for them all to get together. If that's not possible, bring a bunch of sandwiches or goodies to the office for her to share with her co-workers. (This will earn MAJOR brownie points for you!!!) Every girl wants to be the one in the office who has "such a great husband".

As for the kids, mine just love "stay at home" days. Get some new board games, make some rice krispie treats, and have a great day.

 

[mrsmom]

I have another one, how about havinga surprise lunch delivered to her work with a romantic note .
Kim

 

[ggeorgiagirl]

MOREMICKEY wins...dang it!
I wanted to win!

 

[Korwynne]

for your wife.. surprize takeout, candles in the bathroom, some new bath goodies (bath salts or bubblebath?) and a glass of wine? Maybe some new jammies or fleece socks or something cozy as well?

for your son.. not sure how old he is.. my little boy is 4 and his favorite thing is alone time with Daddy. He likes doing to the dinosaur museum, the aquarium, the park to feed the ducks and play on the swings.. all the better if he and Daddy get lunch while they're out. He'd also be thrilled to go get a build a birdhouse kit, make it with Daddy, paint it, find a perfect spot for it in the yard and fill it with birdseed. It could be a special thing to refill it once a week together or something like that.

for your daughter.. don't know how old she is, but mine is 5. She *loves* anything that feels like she's grown up. She loves having a bubble bath with candles, and then her toenails painted.. or dressing up and going to dinner with her Daddy.. or going to breakfast/brunch/lunch with him and then a matinee. She'd also love to plan a meal, go shopping and then prepare it with her father, but he doesn't cook. She also loves going to starbucks and getting a chocolate soy milk and a cookie and having "grown up time"

Take your wife and daughter to glamour shots, let them get fancied up and get mother/daughter pictures

 

[FINFAN]

My suggestion is for the whole family...go get some Disney dollars and hide them really, REALLY good. After you have them hidden, tell everyone that you are going to make a "treasure box" like from POTC or whatever....go to Hobby Lobby, or use a shoe box, anything that can close and can be decorated in any Disney style they wish.
Then go on the treasure hunt, maybe have somme inexpensive little surprises also hidden, like Mickey pencils, or a bunch of the paint sample mickey heads form Home Depot, Disney coloring book, ( think dollar store or Target) then as the treasures are found, total them up and put them in the treasure box...to be used on your upcoming trip!\I have done this before and it is a blast, and I have also taped a quarter and 2 nikles to make a hidded Mickey on a post it or whatever and hidden those...kids keep track of the amount they have found and get that back once we are in WDW.
It helps towards the trip, and even for Dad too!


Pam

 

[tadamom]

What an AWESOME man you are!!!! I know you hear tons of women that would do something like this but you are truly as AWESOME MAN, DAD, AND HUBBY for doing something like this for your family!!!

You could do this with both kids together, a family thing or individually...how about a treasure/scavenger hunt. Make a list of attractions/places around your town and have them find them. Take pictures of everything so that you will always have pictures of the fun they have. And then let the final destination have a surprise waiting for them. Prizes could be Disney related: wife - a day at the spa in Disney World, Luke/Lauren - favorite w/daddy only!!

Again - awesome idea you have come up with. I may just have to steal this idea too!!

 

[timandlesley]

What an AWESOME man you are!!!! I know you hear tons of women that would do something like this but you are truly as AWESOME MAN, DAD, AND HUBBY for doing something like this for your family!!!

You could do this with both kids together, a family thing or individually...how about a treasure/scavenger hunt. Make a list of attractions/places around your town and have them find them. Take pictures of everything so that you will always have pictures of the fun they have. And then let the final destination have a surprise waiting for them. Prizes could be Disney related: wife - a day at the spa in Disney World, Luke/Lauren - favorite w/daddy only!!

Again - awesome idea you have come up with. I may just have to steal this idea too!!

Thanks so much for the compiments......I'm starting to get embarassed. You have some awesome ideas....I will see if I can try them out. Oh...by the way..... Welcome to the... Dream Team 2007 yea!!!!

Thanks!
Tim

 

[tadamom]

WooHoo!!!! I have been inspired by this thread to do something like this with my family before our trip!! We are leaving in 86 days and I have subscribed to this thread hoping to get some ideas -- hope you don't mind!!

On our trip, there will be 10 of us going (me, DH, DS, DD, MIL, FIL, SIL, BIL, Dniece and SIL). The in-laws are paying for our admission tickets and SIL & BIL put a huge chunk down on the room so I want to do something special for all of them to show our thanks!!

 

[Deesknee]

Personally as a mom & wife. I would love for dh to dedicate a romantic song for me on the radio and we have our own private dance. Wine and flowers would be nice too. (but I see you already did that)

for the kids. All of mine would love icecream sundaes for breakfast! Their ages are 16 and 3.

I must say, I agree with the others you are a very thoughtful husband/dad.

 

[timandlesley]

Hi folks....I'm finally back and I am full of updates. It has been a unbelievably busy week and when the evenings have arrived there has been no time to post....just work!!! Crazy family...but I love them!!

I will be back in just a few with details and pics!!

Tim

 

[timandlesley]

Luke's 6th b-day was on Wednesday so he was the obvious pick for the Wish Person. We let Luke pick the meals for the whole day, of course he got his b-day present from us (HUGE remote control car, he had fun playing with.) It turned out to be a special day because he got a snow day from school with our first big snow day of the year so Lesley (being a teacher) was off too, so they had fun playing in the snow together too (while I shoveled ).
Luke chose Red Robin for his b-day dinner. He was SO excited when we sat down that he wanted us to tell the waiter it was his b-day right away, he was grinning from ear to ear. He was SO excited when they came to the table singing happy b-day, gave him balloons and a sundae (sorry, I forgot the camera but had the camera phone handy, so these are the pics we got from the dinner):
Here he is listening intently as they sang (I promise he was EXCITED but this for some reason makes him look confused )

Luke devouring his sundae:

Luke had a GREAT b-day WISH day. More to come. . .
Tim

 

[timandlesley]

Lauren was up on Thursday, We called it "Pamper the Princess Day". She got a bubble bath by mommy when she came home from work (no pics here , don't want to be arrested ). Then she got out, we put a new robe on her and she had her lounging time:

Then Lesley got the makeup case out and they did manicures and pedicures, LAUREN WAS IN HEAVEN:

Lauren had a GREAT day of pampering. She was the boss for the day, told us where to sit at dinner (she chose the head of the table, which you need to understand that getting the head of the table at our house is like being the head of the mafia , enjoyed showing off her nails and putting lip gloss on from the case. Our own personal Bippety Boppity Botique

FUN FUN FUN!!
O.K., more typing to do.
Tim

 

[timandlesley]

O.K., Luke was up AGAIN and we took the Dream Teams suggestion for Dave and Busters (a local restaraunt/HUGE arcade that Luke loves and rarely gets to go to). He had a blast (o.k. we all did, daddy loves arcades too). We played the HUGE claw game and he won a Power Ranger kickball which started the night off right. He begged to play the giant Wheel of fortune game and came up a HUGE winner, scoring 1000 tickets on the first try. Here is a camera phone pic of the tickets coming out of the machine
(which lasted about 10 minutes )

Here is a VERY blurry camera phone shot of Luke jumping up and down and dancing as he won:

Here is one more pic of Luke posing in front of a game:

WE totalled 1400 tickets which the kids split and picked prizes. Luke got an electronic safe with a code that he thinks is awesome and he locks his "valuables" in it nightly. Lauren got a Hello kitty doll.
Fun had by all, Luke LOVED his WISH day.

Tim

 

[timandlesley]

Lesley and I decided Sunday would be my wish day. I asked her "I wonder how long I could sleep if no one ever woke me". Well I found out Saturday because Lesley had taken the kids out to run errands and didn't wake me up. I found out 10:30 is my wake up time on my own - WISH GRANTED!!!!
The real wish was for both of us this night. I had arranged for my mom to take the kids for the night. Lesley and I went to a movie and out to a late dinner

at our favorite Itlaian restaraunt Bravo, drinks

(O.K. maybe too many drinks) and FUN

We enjoyed a nice evening without the kids and my mom brought the kids to church this morning, nice quiet car ride to church just the two of us.
So the WISH WEEK is over, it was FUN had by all, thanks for all of your suggestions, I hope this inspires others to do the same, if you do, please post here, we'd love to hear about it.
Until (hopefully) our own wishes are granted at Disney in June. . . .
Tim

 

[tadamom]

That was all soooo awesome!!! The kids were just adorable!!!!

I'm off to read your pre-trip report now - can't wait b/c I read your last trip report right after you got back and it was one of the best I've read!!!

Hope y'all have a great trip in June!!

 

[tadamom]

OMG - I started reading your pre-trip report and my side is hurting soooo bad after reading/singing your song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was the most hilarious thing that I have read in a long time! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great job!!!