Sept is almost here!! Daily updates & My sister is there!!

[wdwmom0f3]

I am so excited!! Someone posted this link to make your own Epcot passports and they are adorable. Check it out.

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1509917&page=6

I guess I will be working on these sometime this summer. It should be fun, because this is something that we have never done before.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

You're going to love Kona! The teriyaki steak is my favorite!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

You're going to love Kona! The teriyaki steak is my favorite!

Thats what I am going to order!! It just sounds soooo good. I am also going to try a Lupa Lupa at Ohana, and I may possibly get another one there, if I can. I wish I could find the recipe to make one.

I thought about watching wishes from the beach one of these nights, but I forgot that they are having the MNSSHP. I wonder if they would pipe in the music from the firework show then? Our dinner may or maynot fall on one of those days, I was just wondering.

I hate waiting until June for the park ours & extra magic hours to some out.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

So it's been a while since I have posted. I have not stopped planning but I am feeling a little overwhelmed. First of all, I am a planner so I want ever little detail in writing right. Well, it's a little hard when you are planning for other people too. I was just informed by my step dad that they will be flying instead of driving. Now I need to add a day onto their trip. I still don't know if my friend will make it. We are planning like she will but who knows. I think her DH will not be joining her so she is looking for someone, a family member, to join her at some point to cover some of the cost of her room. Her sister may some & I don't know her very well but no big deal, it's her vacation.

She and I need to get together soon and pick our ADR's and everything. June is right around the corner, and that's when we make our ADR's. It's also going to be a very busy month here. We have a trip planned to Gatlinburg, my DD is going to camp for a few days & my son will be spending time in Atlanta the same week with my in-laws. Then we have a trip planned to go to Huntsville to the space center too. It's great though, June will fly by!! July should be just as busy and then School starts in August. WOW! I better get packed now for Disney!

I have a busy week ahead. I have got to get our pool ready to open. I hate doing it, but once everything is up and going we have a blast. I just pray that we don't have any problems with it this year, they can be a pain.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

I'm the same way you are with planning and when people start chanigng things it can get crazy! deep breath! haha!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I'm the same way you are with planning and when people start chanigng things it can get crazy! deep breath! haha!

OK... Breath in and out.... it's been a bad weekend. My Step dad has been falling lately, a lot. He said that his feet get messed up and he falls, but he is really blacking out. Well, this past weekend while I was there, he stepped out back with the kids and he fell, hard. We got him up and let him rest in a chair for a minute and he got up and the fell again. It was the weirdest thing, he fell straight back like a domino. He was unresponsive for a good few minutes and we called 911 immediately. He was rushed to the hospital and then rushed to a bigger hospital, UAB in Birmingham. He had a small bleed on his brain from the fall, but it has stopped bleeding. They ran test and we still don't know what is making him black out and fall like he is doing.


I'm worried, because he may not be better for the Disney Trip with my Mom in Sept. There is no way that I would want to risk him doing that at Disney. I hope and pray that they can find out what his problem is. They are thinking that it is some kind of blockage in his arteries. They are running more test now so we should know something soon. Say a prayer for him if you can, he needs all of the help that he can get.

As for Disney, all of my plans are still on the table but I am patiently waiting for June for the park hours to be released. It's taking forever.

Going to bed now... I have been sleeping at the hospital all weekend so I am ready to get back into my own bed.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear about your step dad. Hopefully they find out quickly what's wrong and patch him up so he can get better! I'll definitely keep you guys in my thoughts, please keep us updated when you can.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear about your step dad. Hopefully they find out quickly what's wrong and patch him up so he can get better! I'll definitely keep you guys in my thoughts, please keep us updated when you can.

Thank you so much!! He is still in the hospital in Birmingham and they still have no clue as to what is going on with him. They ran some more test today, one on his heart and another one on the motor function area at the base of his brain. Hopefully they can find out what it is that is causing him to black out and fall. He is 74 years old, but he is in great shape. He works out and everything so who knows. I was worried about my mom and her ankle at Disney, now I am more worried about him, if they still go.

Something new to tell, my sister and her son are headed to Washington DC on a field trip with his school. They left this morning on a 17 hour bus ride, and they will be there for a week. I hope that they have a great time. It should be a fun trip for them.

Dang!! June will never get here! I am ready for our park ours to be posted so I can line everything up. I call for our ADR's on June 21st.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I'm getting closer... Mickey & Minnie are almost on Space Ship Earth on my ticker!!

So today I was looking at doing the EMH's for the mornings that we are there. I normally skip them but I am thinking with the heat in Sept and all, it mights be a good idea. So.... I have been changing things around, again.

We still have no news on my Stepdad. He is still in the hospital. If he is not better bu August, they will not be going. Even still, if they do go I will insist on them renting an electric chair thing.

School will be out in two weeks here so I am getting ready for that! I am so glad to get a break. Other than that, nothing else is going on. Just reading up on some Disney info. It's so much fun.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

UPDATE:

Bad news- My stepdad is still not any better but he is at home. They will not be going to Disney World now unless he turns a 180, which doesn't look possible.

GOODNEWS- My friend and her two girls are going!!! She has had it booked all along but was unsure until recently. It's going to be so much fun!!

Something new..... My sisters husband may be getting a job out of state in NABRASKA! This will move them more than 15 hours away from us. I know it would be a great opportunity for them but NABRASKA! It's in GODS hands now. As much as I want him to get this job, I hate to see them move so far away.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I went shopping this weekend to see if I could find some cute things for Disney. We found a few hair bows for DD and a couple of other things. It's so much fun looking for these things.

 

[KathyRN137]

I'm just catching up and I'm so sorry about your step-dad... I hope his health improves, even if he and your mom cannot join you at WDW!

Have you made up your mind about the MNSSHP?

Kathy

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I'm just catching up and I'm so sorry about your step-dad... I hope his health improves, even if he and your mom cannot join you at WDW!

Have you made up your mind about the MNSSHP?

Kathy

Thank you!! He is doing a little better and they have not cancelled the trip as of yet but I have told her that if he goes, he has got to get one of those powered wheelchairs. Who knows what will happen but we shall see I guess.

I don't think we will be doing MNSSHP. If we do it will be a last minute thing. My friend said that they wont do it so I would hate to go without them. Besides, that would mean buying costumes and all of that so it would get expensive.

I am getting more and more excited. I have GOT to lose weight before we go. My sister has done sooooo good. She looks great. My friend who is going with us weighs about what I do now so we are going to try to do this together. I think I am going to try to just eat Lean Cuisines this week for lunch & dinner with no snacks. Let's see how this works. I need to lose about 15-20 pounds. I'm at 140 now. I will be busy getting our pool open this week so that should help keep my mind off of it.

I think we have like 117 more days!!!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

OK, so I was up late last night trying to rethink our trip. I am freaking out because of me stepdads health and they are still planning on going. They said that they can cancel later if he is not better. This is great except for our ADR's. I don't want to mess anything up and now I am starting to freak!

OK, and advice please!!!!! My BFF says that they are for sure going which is GREAT!! However, she has not done the first thing to help me plan and I am getting worried about that too. She is not sure if they are going to get the hopper passes or not, we do, and this is effecting me being able to plan our ADR's. Am I crazy for stressing so much? She is supposed to let me know this coming week.

I am a huge planner and this is driving me nutts!!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

This has been a great week for us. My DH just got a promotion at work and we are super excited and I am very proud of him. Anyway, he called me today and asked me what our Disney dates were and I froze. I could tell something was wrong by the tone in his voice. I told him the dates and he said that it was the week of his training out of state. Oh crap! Well I called Disney to see if we could move our dates up by a week and they did with no trouble. I also had to change my Mom's and my friend called to change hers as well. They were very helpful. I was so afraid that we would lose our free dining, but we didn't thank goodness. So now, the day we get home, he leaves for Atlanta for a week. It's going to be crazy.

The funny thing is that when I told the kids, they ran to the count down chart and took off eight days. They were so excited.

Now, if those darn park hours would just be posted I could really have some fun!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Congrats to your hubby on the promotion, that's so exciting especially since we keep hearing about layoffs, etc! Moving the vaca up 8 days is definitely worth it... and 8 days less that you have to wait!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Darn it!!! Since I moved the dates, I am back on that darn hat again! I had made it all of the way to Space Ship Earth!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Congrats to your hubby on the promotion, that's so exciting especially since we keep hearing about layoffs, etc! Moving the vaca up 8 days is definitely worth it... and 8 days less that you have to wait!

Thank you!! I am proud of him. We are hoping to move from the area that we are in soon. He says that we live in the arm pit of Alabama. Not really, but it's a small town and we like being closer to bigger areas.

I am super excited about moving our trip up though. I just hope that they post the park hours for September soon!!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Someone posted a link and pasted the Travel Agent website hours that TA's have access to. They seem pretty accurate and did come from Disney. It's in the Theme Park boards somewhere!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

oops someone mentioned they were just posted...but i cant find em