Our Trick AND Treat- DD's Surprise Bday Trip! 11/4 Get Movin'

[Tnkrbelle565]

And if you all could send a thought/prayer for my mommy! She didn't get the best of news at the Dr. today. She is seeing a surgeon tomorrow. Given MY cancer history (isn't that a weird role reversal), they are concerned enough to get her into see my surgeon tomorrow. So it's freaking me out a bit. I'm now almost 7 years cancer-free so I know how well these things can go...but I don't want her to go through this.

 

[abc123mom]

First off, prayers for your Mom that all will go well. I also hope everything goes well with the house negotiations too, $500 and call it even...nice try.

I didn't even know you had a pre-trip report going already. Loved all the pictures, I wish I had the talent to get pictures like that. We have a d-slr. I guess I just need to learn how to use it. It just seems overwhelming to venture into changing lenses and whatnot.

We have our MNSSHP tickets already. We are going on Oct 29th, we've never been and we can't wait. Your mini-trip report from last year was great. Now if I can just figure out costumes for the five of us...the kids want everyone to dress up.

I think a shade of purple would go well with the green carpet. Is your daughter a Tinkerbell fan? Those colors definitely make me think of the fairies.

Looking forward to following along.

 

[jessica52877]

Prayers for your mom.

I think light purple will look good with the carpet. Will her room have a theme? It does kind of scream fairies. I am not big into the fairies though.

Hope all goes well with the house. I see now why you liked it, big disney fans!

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

First off, prayers for your Mom that all will go well. I also hope everything goes well with the house negotiations too, $500 and call it even...nice try.

I didn't even know you had a pre-trip report going already. Loved all the pictures, I wish I had the talent to get pictures like that. We have a d-slr. I guess I just need to learn how to use it. It just seems overwhelming to venture into changing lenses and whatnot.

We have our MNSSHP tickets already. We are going on Oct 29th, we've never been and we can't wait. Your mini-trip report from last year was great. Now if I can just figure out costumes for the five of us...the kids want everyone to dress up.

I think a shade of purple would go well with the green carpet. Is your daughter a Tinkerbell fan? Those colors definitely make me think of the fairies.

Looking forward to following along.

Prayers for your mom.

I think light purple will look good with the carpet. Will her room have a theme? It does kind of scream fairies. I am not big into the fairies though.

Hope all goes well with the house. I see now why you liked it, big disney fans!

Thanks for the prayers for mom ladies. She, of course, is calm as a cucumber. Drives me nuts

Still haven't heard back on the house negotations. The estimate came back at $1000 so they are definitely going to have to sweeten the offer. I'll keep you posted!

I know that the purple and green screams "fairies" but I'm thinking that I'm not going to "theme" the room. I might let her do removable sticker stencils of Tink but I don't want to paint Tink on anything. You KNOW that in a year, she'll change her mind.

Good eye Jessica on the Disney things in the boys room. They have them everywhere! Randy told me that I couldn't ask for them in the offer

Laura- you have to use your camera! You have plenty of time to practice. Randy and I have a good system down with changing the lenses really quick if need be. You'll never go back to your point and shoot!

 

[jessica52877]

I think kids seem to outgrow rooms so quickly now a days. Maybe a few accents of something (but not painted/wallpapered) would be cute! I am sure you'll have alot of fun decorating!

Does it have a sewing room?

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

I think kids seem to outgrow rooms so quickly now a days. Maybe a few accents of something (but not painted/wallpapered) would be cute! I am sure you'll have alot of fun decorating!

Does it have a sewing room?

No

But if you want a yard in northeastern Massachusetts....you need to give up on the rooms! So no "man room" for Randy or sewing room for mommy! But the basement has really high ceilings so I think we might be able to finish it. If we do, I can get my sewing room! Or I can just dream of the day when I don't need a playroom anymore!!!

 

[abc123mom]

I'm with you on the kids changing their minds on their rooms. When we moved in my oldest insisted on a very pink princess room. We compromised with a salmon pink (thought that might be more appealing to an older girl later than cotton candy pink) then "decorated" with framed princess art. I framed a princess poster and several smaller princess pictures I cut out from a calendar my husband got at work (that's a whole other story ). I figured it would be easy enough to change out what's in the frames when and if she changes her mind. So far so good. She was happy and so was I.

I'm definitely strongly considering learning how to use our camera. My husband just starting looking at lenses. He's looking at a 50 mm lens. He has assured me that I am a smart woman and he has faith I can figure it out. Gotta love that! So, how did you learn? Any suggestions? I think I'm convincing myself to jump into this.

Bummer on the no sewing room...but the basement may have potential! I have a sewing closet. Our master has two closets. We are not clothes people so one closet is plenty of space. SO, I took the other one for sewing and craft stuff. Where there's a will there's a way!

 

[HeatherSue]

How did I not realize you had a PTR?

I am praying for your mom, Kristine. That must be scary for you.

I think a light purple would be really pretty with the green carpet. Something with a hint of gray to it would look best. I had the perfect color of purple for that carpet in my bedroom in my last house. Henry wasn't too crazy about having a purple bedroom. But, when we sold it, that's one of the reasons the people bought it. She LOVED the purple walls!

 

[jenb1023]

I think the light purple would look nice with the green carpet!

Jordan's room has been purple and green since birth. We originally had a border splitting the colors that was butterflies and other bugs. It was very toddler-looking and I didn't want to repaint the whole room so in order to "age" the room last year we found the tink border that matched perfectly and just put it over the old border and added those peel-off tink clings to the walls.

Hope you get everything signed today for the house! And it sounds like you will get a craft room some day when you can finish the basement or when Aisling is too old for a playroom. Or maybe instead of a playroom you can talk her into a mommy/daughter craft room?

Sending prayers to your mom today!

Keep us posted on the house and your mom! (Cause you know that I would rather be on the DIS than doing the work that is sitting on my desk)

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

I'm with you on the kids changing their minds on their rooms. When we moved in my oldest insisted on a very pink princess room. We compromised with a salmon pink (thought that might be more appealing to an older girl later than cotton candy pink) then "decorated" with framed princess art. I framed a princess poster and several smaller princess pictures I cut out from a calendar my husband got at work (that's a whole other story ). I figured it would be easy enough to change out what's in the frames when and if she changes her mind. So far so good. She was happy and so was I.

I'm definitely strongly considering learning how to use our camera. My husband just starting looking at lenses. He's looking at a 50 mm lens. He has assured me that I am a smart woman and he has faith I can figure it out. Gotta love that! So, how did you learn? Any suggestions? I think I'm convincing myself to jump into this.

Bummer on the no sewing room...but the basement may have potential! I have a sewing closet. Our master has two closets. We are not clothes people so one closet is plenty of space. SO, I took the other one for sewing and craft stuff. Where there's a will there's a way!

You should definitely get a 50mm before your Disney trip. If you click the links to my last two TRs, you can see the pics I took with them. The ride photos and all the fireworks are all taken with my 50mm. I got mine on Amazon. They don't cost a ton.

As far as learning, I took a photography course in college with a film SLR (counted as my "chemistry"...who could blame me!??! ). I stopped using it when we had Aisling because you really need digital with kids. I got my DSLR last year. I still had some basic knowledge from my course so I just kinda played with the new camera to get the hang out it. I would still like to take a course to get better.

How did I not realize you had a PTR?

I am praying for your mom, Kristine. That must be scary for you.

I think a light purple would be really pretty with the green carpet. Something with a hint of gray to it would look best. I had the perfect color of purple for that carpet in my bedroom in my last house. Henry wasn't too crazy about having a purple bedroom. But, when we sold it, that's one of the reasons the people bought it. She LOVED the purple walls!

Thanks Heather. Mom is having surgery on Tuesday. Keep the prayers coming.

The master bedroom is red in our new house. Nice dark red- not clown red. And it has white molding. We are keeping it. Here's a pic...try to ignore Randy being a total slob. This was during the inspection so he was climbing around with the inspector.

I think the light purple would look nice with the green carpet!

Jordan's room has been purple and green since birth. We originally had a border splitting the colors that was butterflies and other bugs. It was very toddler-looking and I didn't want to repaint the whole room so in order to "age" the room last year we found the tink border that matched perfectly and just put it over the old border and added those peel-off tink clings to the walls.

Hope you get everything signed today for the house! And it sounds like you will get a craft room some day when you can finish the basement or when Aisling is too old for a playroom. Or maybe instead of a playroom you can talk her into a mommy/daughter craft room?

Sending prayers to your mom today!

Keep us posted on the house and your mom! (Cause you know that I would rather be on the DIS than doing the work that is sitting on my desk)

I think we are finally in agreement with everything on the house! They are writing up the final (95th probably!!!) copy of the P&S and hopefully we'll be able to sign it this afternoon!

I posted above but my mom is having surgery on Tuesday. She's a little freaked out now because they are doing the surgery so quickly but that's how this surgeon operates (in the literal and figurative sense!). She's done all of my surgeries besides my c-section and she's always done them within a week. She's fabulous.

I would love to have a mommy/daughter craft room but this child is spoiled...bottom line. My mother actually took her into AG Place when I was in Florida and told her to pick out "anything she wanted"...my mother likes to spoil like that! My mom plans to take her the weekend we move so I'm hoping I can make some of the toys magically disappear while she's gone!

 

[KathyRN137]

Prayers for Mom!


Kathy

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Prayers for Mom!


Kathy

Thanks Kathy!

With all this house business I'm falling behind on your PTR! I need to get back over there.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

At the 11th hour (4:30 when the office closes at 5pm)...we got that P&S finally signed!!!

 

[Jennifer48]

At the 11th hour (4:30 when the office closes at 5pm)...we got that P&S finally signed!!!

YAHOO!!!!!!!

 

[Diamondintheruff]

Hope your Mom is doing well. It must be very stressful for you right now figuring out the move and dealing with your Mom's health.

Praying for a positive outcome all round!

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Mom made it through surgery just fine. Thanks to everyone who checked in here and on FB and said prayers. She is home and supposed to be resting and doped up on pain meds but we all know that she's a mom so of course she won't be resting anytime soon!

We won't know results until next week but the surgeon was happy with how well it went.

 

[Lady Lallie]

Glad things went well with your Mom.

 

[abc123mom]

Glad to hear everything went well with the house and your Mom.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Random question for mommies or people who know mommies...

Has anyone had to go to a training so they can volunteer in their kiddos classes or go on field trips? I got an email from Aisling's new school this morning telling me that I have to go to a 3 hour training class entitled "Protecting God's Children"- which I find ironic since I'm a child protective worker for the Commonwealth! I could teach the class!!! Anyone know what these classes discuss for 3 hours???

 

[Lady Lallie]

Random question for mommies or people who know mommies...

Has anyone had to go to a training so they can volunteer in their kiddos classes or go on field trips? I got an email from Aisling's new school this morning telling me that I have to go to a 3 hour training class entitled "Protecting God's Children"- which I find ironic since I'm a child protective worker for the Commonwealth! I could teach the class!!! Anyone know what these classes discuss for 3 hours???

That is just weird! I have never heard of that before and I used to volunteer and go on field trips all the time even when I wasn't the Mom. I would think they'd let you pass on that class.