There is one show I stumbled upon showing principals interacting with students. I watched a little of it. Some of it looked legitimate, but some of it looked like teenagers trying to ham it up a little for TV's sake.
You do not have to bring me anything!! And please don't!! My lips are sealed
April 7th - check....what is it again that I'm supposed to mark it for? The baby or your return . Sorry I'm sure I know but just not coming to me 
I LOVED this.....thank you for sharing 
So sweet!! And good to know I'm not the only one that has discussions in my head 
The 7th is when Bella will be here to show us how cute she is!
so cute!
poor memom! i know this is gonna be my mom when ray and i have a kid. i have a feeling she's going to be making more trips to georgia!
you are so funny! thanks for sharing. now i don't feel so odd for having conversations with myself.
this one's my favorite.
It's good to know I'm not the only one talking to myself!
Yes, your mom will do more traveling to GA when that baby gets here. She'll probably have him/her out in the backyard swinging a golf club instead of swinging on a swingset!
I know how you feel. This is what I do when we have to talk Mom back to the airport! I usually am crying as we are walking out. But I'm glad you were able to spend the day with Brooklynn! It sounds like you have a wonderful day together!
We had a great day together. At one point, we were on the couch, and she was laying on my arm. I looked down and just said, "I love you, Brooklynn." She grinned and said, "Love you, too." So sweet.
I am going to miss chasing her around Disney World. I hope I can find my way around without her guidance.
sounds like lots of girl fun with Brooklynn today! I am sure you are so sad leaving your girls--- I almost cried thinking about how hard that would be, especially when she wants you to stay!
Yes, and that's one of the reasons I've struggled even more with this trip. I have no problem shelling out big bucks for all three of us, but putting out money just for me to have fun seems not as right.
I'm going to bring back the magic to whatever degree I can through pictures, videos, and then our little Disney party when I get back.
I've thought about the title for the new trip report. I think I've decided on
A Two Too Short Spring Trip Report, since it'll be a short trip and I'll be missing my two girls. I'm throwing ideas around. That report should carry us all the way until it's time to go in July!
I'm so glad I'm not the only person who has discussions in their heads. I do that so much! Particularly if we're driving out to Ohio and I've gotten tired of just listening to my music, or I'm doing some of the driving and there's no music and everyone else is conked out.
My dad does a lot of driving for work and he has devised lots of ways to pass the time, like adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing license plate numbers in his head. He was explaining to me one time how the best license plates are the ones that start and end with an even number and come out even when you add them all up. Actually, I think it might have been a little more complicated than that. I just know that even numbers were good.
So, your March trip is on?
Sometime this afternoon, Katie sent me a picture from the Soarin' queue.
I was so excited, and it made me think of you and hope that you get to go!
Since I have to do Math all week, I'll pass on adding it to my drive time. I'll stick with less intelligent things like how many Clarks I know.
Where did that come from???
It looks like we will be going. We'll leave at 6:30 a.m. next Wednesday, if all goes well.
I hope we get to ride Soarin' twice on Epcot day!
You can put your trip in
www.farewatcher.com. They predict whether fares will go up or down. I used them, and so far they are right - I purchased 60 days ago, because they said our fare would start going up a little. I was going to wait for a little bit better price, but it never came, so I'm glad I booked when I did.
That's great to know. Thanks for sharing that. I got mine as soon as they came out. As long as I have a way down there, I'm good. I don't worry nearly as much about flights coming back!
I always have conversations in my head or out loud. I was an only child till I was 34.
That's funny!
Did your little brother/sister get to wear your hand-me-downs?
Sometimes I'm amazed at how my mind gets to certain points - the pathways it must follow.
When you said that Brooklynn always makes the same comment at certain points in a movie, it reminded me of my boys on our drive up to Pennsylvania. My in-laws live up there and so we travel the same roads fairly often. It never fails that EVERY time we get to a certain bridge, one of the boys will comment, "I know we're almost there now!" or something to that affect. NEVER FAILS. As soon as we get on the bridge I look at Chuck and say quiety, "Wait for it. Waaaaiiiiittttt for it."
The funny thing is it's still another 30 - 45 minutes from the bridge to my in-laws house.
You need to meet my friend, Kay, then, because we always laugh at her and her conversations. Conversationally, she starts in one country, does a loop around another, gets lost in the ocean somewhere, and then ends up totally losing what she ever started talking about. It's just her. I've never met anyone else that gets so sidetracked in my life!
When we went on our trip right before Brooklynn was born, at one one point she was sitting on the bus having a very involved conversation with a total stranger about her brother-in-law. The lady looked completely trapped.
I pretended I was with another family.
What fun you had with Brooklynn and her toys.
It so funny that she says the same thing at parts in the movie, my kids did the same thing. It always astounded me that they could watch the exact same movie over and over again and not get tired of it.
Aaron loved
Homeward Bound and would get so upset at the end. He would say " Oh no, I hope he comes home..." He would be so concerned and I would say "it's okay, he comes over the hill, you know he does." Every time, every time.
Lexi on the other hand has a golden memory, she has memorized everything she has ever seen or done. She is my little 'journal', if I can't remember something. She was obsessed with a movie called
Motorcrossed ...
a little weird I thought, but it was her favorite.
I wonder if she would watch it now and still like it.
I remember so fondly going to our kid consignment sale in Auburn with my good friends. I couldn't believe the fantastic deals. I got so many beautiful clothes for Lexi.
I never put Aaron in anything but new clothes. I got over that with Lexi. She even wore store brand diapers...oh the shame. I was such a different Mom with my first. Overly protective and I steralized everything for years. Maybe I'm to blame for these rebellious teenage years of his.
It seems we all talk to ourselves and have conversations in our minds.
Our summer camp kids used to beg to watch Homeward Bound. We watched it many, many times.
Brooklynn's got one of those amazing memories, too. Yesterday, she saw a picture of a book on the back of another book in the same set. She wanted to read it, and Jill told her she'd have to go find it. Brooklynn led her to the garage and went straight to it in a box in storage. I still will never forget when we went on our last March trip and stayed at All Star Movies, and as we walked to the bus stop at All Star Music, she said 'biscuit' when we passed the food court. That's where we had eaten a biscuit on the December trip. This kid was like one and half, and she remembered eating a biscuit there.
Those good memories will serve these little girls well in school. Brooklynn will be smarter than MeMom by the time she is five, if not sooner!
Aren't teenagers just an amazing species of beings???
It seems they do come around in time, though, so hang in there.
Ahh, MeMom. We all do that crazy stuff in our head. Sometimes I have no idea how I even got on the path tow hat I'm currently thinking about!
I love that Brooklynn says the same things during movies, super cute!
Thanks for trying to make me feel better about my insanity level!
Aww MeMom, you're too much with that little convo to yourself
Worrying about little Bella before she even arrives, what a wonderful grandma!
I hope I'm a decent grandmother. I want the girls to grow up feeling very comfortable with me and having great memories of our silly and fun times together.
I love seeing all the day to day pictures of Brooklynn, she is just so cute!
I'm glad she had fun playing in the snow!
We had about 10 inches last Sunday night and no school Monday.
But this weekend it was in the 60s. Yesterday was weird with warm temperatures and the sun shining, and the ground covered in snow. Today its pretty much melted though!
I haven't seen that Buzz & Woody area at DHS.
That looks neat. Lots of great pictures!
And the Osborne lights look amazing.
Jill, the cake at your shower is so cute!
Memom, I really hope you get to go back to Disney this month.
Ten inches is great! We would have gotten a lot more than a Monday out of that!!!
Have you ever seen the Osborne Lights in person? If not, maybe you can do that someday. I know the kids would love seeing them.
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Okay, now that I'm caught up with everyone, I'm going to go find some Epcot pictures to share. Back in a few.
I am afraid of heights so I grip the handlebars the whole time -- it's my favorite ride at Epcot though -- my favorite scene is the aircraft carrier and my favorite smell is the orange one. Oh, I can't wait to ride it again!!!
