POPpers are back from POP 9/29-10/6 and made GREAT friends!Chat until next trip!! Part 3

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

8 days CAT!! i would be dying!!!!

<--me exploding with excitement!

 

[julsmom]

i'm soo bored i cleaned up the craft mess, the kids are asleep and by the time they wake up DH will be home! what a lame day!

I know what you mean. Some days, I am not sure what I did. It is just the same stuff everyday. I don't know how I don't go crazy sometimes.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

If it is only 20, then I say you could get it for fun. I get so excited about trips, that all that stuff seems to add to the excitment. I mean, I don't need a passporter, but I figured it would just be fun and give me something else to do while I am waiting.
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That's why i like to spend my money on guidebooks!! I don't need the info! but i love to highlight and fold pages and copy and all that good stuff! it's a blast!!!

 

[julsmom]

What do you picture yourself doing after your kids are grown? I don't know what I should do with myself then. What do I want to be?

 

[CathrynRose]

If it is only 20, then I say you could get it for fun. I get so excited about trips, that all that stuff seems to add to the excitment. I mean, I don't need a passporter, but I figured it would just be fun and give me something else to do while I am waiting.

Thats true - it's only $20 and its a lot to look at - a lot of stuff you already know - but a lot, none the less.

If I were you, I'd sign up for your DECEMBER trip - not May - cuz it expires 3 months after you go (otherwise I'd give you my login ) But if you sign up for December, you can still look at May, June, July - whatever you want.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

I know what you mean. Some days, I am not sure what I did. It is just the same stuff everyday. I don't know how I don't go crazy sometimes

oh man i do go crazy sometimes! i think that's why i'm glad i have the DIS and a phone! i need adult conversation every now and then! and DH has to sometimes talk me down VIA IM! haah!!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

cool! CAT i didn't know it expired! thanks for the info!!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

What do you picture yourself doing after your kids are grown? I don't know what I should do with myself then. What do I want to be?

hmmm..what do i want to be when i grow up?????

I think i may use my travel & Tourism degree by getting certified to be a travel agent OR go back to school while the kids are in school and maybe study something else?? i really don't know. I don't want any kind of super-career or anything, i just want to be able to me there for my kids if they have to be sick from school or something like that...

BUT once they are all grown up, DH and i want to sell the house and buy an RV and travel the US..wierd

 

[CathrynRose]

8 days CAT!! i would be dying!!!!

<--me exploding with excitement!

I dont know why Im not??? :confused Cuz I cant talk about it - or look at stuff at home. I practically heard Mission Impossible music playing in the background when I was getting deodorant, shampoo, shower gel, etc - ready to ship for Thursday (since IM CARRYING EVERYTHING ON!!!!! )

Im also still not feeling too hot. When I lived in Florida (BTW - I HATE Florida for living - HATED IT!) so when I lived there I got this weird, goofy, no symptoms sinus infection in the back of my skull (like I told you, where I got "whiplash") I swear, I thought I was having a stroke - it burnnnned, just like yesterday.

So now - this is so weird, Im like a freaking weather doppler - I know when weather is gonna be funky, cuz like yesterday, it ached.

However - ever since getting that infection that the DR told be could be "organism's Im not used to getting into a sinus cavity" (ewwwww grossssss!!!!!!! I almost threw up when he said that!!!) if I get the head"aches" in that spot from the weather, for too long - I get another one of those "infections" Cuz now, Im more supseptiable. Great. I have little micro-organisms which go dormant and flare up - alllll from Florida!

Anywho - Im still hurting, and a smidge nauseated - which means Yes folks.... theyre "flaring" (ewwwwwwwwwww yuck!!!) Thankfully I have a refil on an antibiotic Im going to go fill and take with Advil PM and watch American Idol! Hopefully Ill be out before Simon says "What the HE** was THAT?"

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

AUGHH!!! CAT!! i hope you get to feeling better!!

 

[CathrynRose]

oh man i do go crazy sometimes! i think that's why i'm glad i have the DIS and a phone! i need adult conversation every now and then! and DH has to sometimes talk me down VIA IM! haah!!

I think this is so funny - cuz both you guys have mentioned this.

I totally disagree. I stayed home with my boys until Danny was 3-ish. And even then... I only worked at nights untilllll I met Jimmy actually, so Danny was 6, Joey was 11.

So, I was a stay at home mom for years - and Ill be honest with you. I saw the cliques at the kids school, I saw the PTA mom's having lunch, I saw the huddles of them at the parks. I had NO interest in them, what so ever at all. They seemed like frigid you-know-whats.

I ADORED that kid time - adored it. I loved babysitting (I did that for a bit, too) I loved volunteering at the kids school - not to jibber-jabber with the mom's - but to have that interaction with those kids. Kids are freaking awesome!!!! IMO - theyre much more honest than an adult. You know when theyre mad, sad, happy etc.

So screw the adult conversation - I like kids better.

And do you know - Ive been at the same schools since Joey was in 1st grade - the kid is a sophmore now with the same group of friends and those freaking Mothers STILLLLLL wont talk to me. The dads do though.

 

[CathrynRose]

BUT once they are all grown up, DH and i want to sell the house and buy an RV and travel the US..wierd

No - not weird. I like this idea too. But Jim and I - I shouldnt even say Jim....

*I* need to stop spending money like it's burning a hole in my pocket!! I dont even have anything "substantial" to account for it. I just... I dont know.

The only thing about the RV thing is the camping-ish aspect about it. I dunno about that....

 

[julsmom]

DMM, put us on your RV stop list!! You can use our restroom!!

Cat,I hope you feel better. Take the antibiotic. If you start taking it now, you will be better before you leave.

I love being with the kids when I sub. I always figured that the older I got (and the older Jul got) I would become more intolerant of kids, or more harsh. But it is the opposite. The older she and I get, the softer I get. Sometimes I sub with a best gal of mine with the 3 year olds. They are just the best thing ever. They are so funny. I adore it. I wish Jul would stay little forever. It hurts me so much to think of her growing up.

I wish we could have more. We can't. I thought about adoption. Too expensive plus we would do foreign adoption. Surrogacy is too expensive. I just have a really hard time thinking that I (hopefully) have so much more life to live and I would so love to fill some of it with another little one.

I just don't know what will become of me when Jul is grown. What am I supposed to do with myself? I want to be a SAHM forever.

 

[julsmom]

No - not weird. I like this idea too. But Jim and I - I shouldnt even say Jim....

*I* need to stop spending money like it's burning a hole in my pocket!! I dont even have anything "substantial" to account for it. I just... I dont know.

The only thing about the RV thing is the camping-ish aspect about it. I dunno about that....

Me too!!! My thing is I want to live life now. Have fun now. I don't go overboard, but you know. I had a "thing" happen last year that scared the s*#@ out of me and that really changed how I think. Plus, Jul is only going to be little for a little while, so I want us to have a blast.

I don't know what to do.

 

[julsmom]

Okay Cat, realllllly personal: Do you think you will marry Jim?

 

[julsmom]

I know what you mean. Some days, I am not sure what I did. It is just the same stuff everyday. I don't know how I don't go crazy sometimes.

Hey, I'm quoting myself!!

What gets me is not the kid side of it so much. It is the thought that I am not making a "real" recognized contribution. I do the same thing everyday. Laundry, vacuum, clean, cook. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat.
I just get stircrazy. I like getting the chance to be around people my age.

 

[CathrynRose]

Okay Cat, realllllly personal: Do you think you will marry Jim?

We're "engaged" but we've been "engaged" for a while now.

I just know he isnt going anywhere, and that - married or not - this is it. So I guess it just isnt that big of a deal - I know we're forever.

Wanna see my ring?

See? We're weird - he liked this one, better than solitaires and Im glad - i like it better too!

My grandma looked confused when I showed it to her - "it looks like a wedding band"

I do wanna get him on my insurance though....

 

[julsmom]

Nice ring!! I love it! It would be a big deal to get him on your insurance if he doesn't have any. Do you own your house together? All that could get tricky if you weren't married.

 

[julsmom]

DMM, being a travel agent would be fun. I just don't know what I will do. I picture myself having to go back to school. But I don't want to waste my potential on something just, you know. I don't know how I want to say it, plus I dont want to offend a million lurkers.

I want to be something that I can be proud of when I die. Cuckoo! I can't believe I am even typing it.

 

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

Anyone here use Tour Guide Mike? and why or why not?

I haven't used TGM, just because I can find the info for free here! Plus Cat made some good points.

BUT once they are all grown up, DH and i want to sell the house and buy an RV and travel the US..wierd

It sounds cool!!! I would love to be able to do something like that when I am retired.

We're "engaged" but we've been "engaged" for a while now.

I just know he isnt going anywhere, and that - married or not - this is it. So I guess it just isnt that big of a deal - I know we're forever.

Wanna see my ring?

See? We're weird - he liked this one, better than solitaires and Im glad - i like it better too!

My grandma looked confused when I showed it to her - "it looks like a wedding band"

I do wanna get him on my insurance though....

Your ring is gorgeous! I love it!

Me and DBF (Steven) have been dating for 5 years and still no ring. We don't even live together. We still live with our families. The main thing holding us back is $$$. I just want something more from our relationship and to start our life together. Is that too much to ask???