Surprise... It's Someday!! A Dec 2010 PTR!!

[jenseib]

That is awesome! I am soooooo Happy for you!

 

[Tinker_Tam]

Thank you everyone! We were pretty scared, to say the least. Now we can put it all behind us. I did find one thing out. When the drs say plaque it is more of almost a scare tissue build up. At least that is what I am seeing it as. I think if plaque as something I get on my teeth!

Been working pretty hard on Gavin's birthday party. I am hoping that everything goes well and it doesn't rain!

Today is officially 80 days till check in! I wish I could drop the 0 and make it just 8! Guess that would be a problem though as we actaully leave 2 days before we check in and well...that would make it 6 days with nothing really done to leave.

I think since it is 80 days you all deserve an update. I will be back this afternoon or evening with an update on our trip. Hope some of you are sticking with me!

 

[brookelizabeth]

Back from the World and all caught up! I'm SOOOOOO HAPPY to read that Brenda is a-ok! Whew. What a relief I'm sure for all of you!!

The story of Gavin figuring out Disney World is just hilarious. It really is amazing what they pick up on, isn't it?

Sounds like the birthday party is coming along well too. The first sort of game I thought of was something with bean bag tossing/ring tossing. Henry LOVES those kinds of games and has since he was barely 2, so it might work for all your guests....he stands right next the board and throws the bag through the hole, but still thinks its fantastic. Perhaps you could do a Woody themed board somehow? Or they kids could "lasso" something?

 

[Tinker_Tam]

Hello all! I know I ma the worst PTR writer ever. Things here have just been yucky and I haven't been in the mood to post much. Since I last posted...

Brenda got sick. Typical flu stuff. No biggie for her. Gavin has a weakened immune system from everything that he has going on with the Hirschsprung's issues. He woke up the following day with a full blown flu. We have been working both kids back to health. Brenda is a lot easier to get over things. Gavin is finally just getting to the cold part. He is snotty and yucky but is coming along. Gotta love this time of year.

On top of the flu Gavin has been having stomach pains. That is how he describes the difference in his tummy. When it is pains I know that means his issues are coming up. We are to go back to the surgeon a month from yesterday. We were to talk then about doing the surgery again that worked earlier in summer. I knew we would have to do at least 1 more before Disney.

I have been working hard at getting the plans for Gavin's 3rd birthday together. I think I have things well on their way. I have had more people let me know they were coming than I anticipated. That is good though. Every year we get to spend with Gavin deserves a HUGE celebration.

The last thing that has been taking my time lately is today... Jon had to go this morning to the oral surgeon and get all 4 wisdom teeth out. Poor guy is such a trouper but pretty miserable today. He is upstairs sleeping, which is why I figured I would hop on here and apologize for being MIA! I must admit, he was still loopy when we were driving home and what he was saying was funny.

I do have a question for my readers, if I still have any left. Right now I am just losing the Disney spirit. TBH I couldn't care less at this point if we got to go or not. I guess what I am wondering is, does anyone else get like this? I know I should be over the top happy to go but I am just in the ho-hums. Is this normal, and if you experience this sometimes, what gets you out of this mood? Thanks!

 

[KatMark]

Hello all! I know I ma the worst PTR writer ever. Things here have just been yucky and I haven't been in the mood to post much. Since I last posted...

Brenda got sick. Typical flu stuff. No biggie for her. Gavin has a weakened immune system from everything that he has going on with the Hirschsprung's issues. He woke up the following day with a full blown flu. We have been working both kids back to health. Brenda is a lot easier to get over things. Gavin is finally just getting to the cold part. He is snotty and yucky but is coming along. Gotta love this time of year.

On top of the flu Gavin has been having stomach pains. That is how he describes the difference in his tummy. When it is pains I know that means his issues are coming up. We are to go back to the surgeon a month from yesterday. We were to talk then about doing the surgery again that worked earlier in summer. I knew we would have to do at least 1 more before Disney.

I have been working hard at getting the plans for Gavin's 3rd birthday together. I think I have things well on their way. I have had more people let me know they were coming than I anticipated. That is good though. Every year we get to spend with Gavin deserves a HUGE celebration.

The last thing that has been taking my time lately is today... Jon had to go this morning to the oral surgeon and get all 4 wisdom teeth out. Poor guy is such a trouper but pretty miserable today. He is upstairs sleeping, which is why I figured I would hop on here and apologize for being MIA! I must admit, he was still loopy when we were driving home and what he was saying was funny.

I do have a question for my readers, if I still have any left. Right now I am just losing the Disney spirit. TBH I couldn't care less at this point if we got to go or not. I guess what I am wondering is, does anyone else get like this? I know I should be over the top happy to go but I am just in the ho-hums. Is this normal, and if you experience this sometimes, what gets you out of this mood? Thanks!

Tam, no need to apologize. Every day life takes priority over the DIS, and we certainly understand that you have your hands full. I hope both kids, and hubby too, are feeling better soon.

I get in the doldrums every once in awhile prior to a Disney trip. What I usually do is go and read a trip report from someone who has just gotten back (or even a PTR of someone getting ready), and it usually gets me in the spirit pretty quickly. I have to admit this trip I haven't had any doldrums, but that could be because my DH had two procedures done and we really need the trip. In fact, can't wait to be there in three days.

 

[taramoz]

Hey there, first off don't appoligize for not posting, you have alot going on right now! Everyone understands. And I hope everyone in your family gets to feeling better soon and that if Gavin does go in for another surgey that it also goes well. My guess is your ho hum feelings are just becuase of everything going on right now, that is really alot for one person to deal with. And in all honesty the trip is still a ways off. I know we are all double digit dancing and such, but I just hung my 100 day countdown a few days back abd truthfully was a bit shocked by how many days we have to cover until we go! SO I bet the feeling will pass as everyone in your home starts to get to feeling better and your disney spirits will return. In the mean time know I am thinking of you and your family!

 

[brookelizabeth]

Sick kiddos are no fun! I'm sorry to hear you have been dealing with all of that.

As for the Disney frump - yep! It happens. Planning a trip is a lot of stress, and when you have more stress on top of it, it just seems meh. We didn't have a trip planned, but I was in the midst of writing a TR when we had a million things going on with attempting to sell our house, wanting to move, and basically having ZERO money, I was stressed -and I just didn't have the energy or desire to write about happy fun stuff when this craziness was going on in my life.

I hope things calm down for you and just go back to your normal cRaZy.

 

[PoppyGirl]

Don't worry about the Disney slump! You've got so much other really important stuff on your mind right now....that kind of stuff tends to suck the joy out of things we normally enjoy. It will pass.

 

[jenseib]

Don't even worry about it. We're still here and we all have times like that where reall life just takes priority.

It must be in the air too. I actually had the blahs this morning when I woke up. I have depostis down on the trip we MAY take in Dec. so that I can have the resort I want for the dates I want with free dining. I wil lcancel then if needed, when the time comes, but I was so close to just calling and canceling this morning. I just so blah and it's not that I don't want to go, I do more than anything, but I just seem to have alot on my mind and tired of not knowing for sure whats going to happen day by day here.

You all deserve this trip coming up, and you'll have a great time. Once it gets closer, you will be so excited and so will your kids. Sometimes when a household is sick, it can really get you down after a bit.

 

[Mickey_Mom]

Hey there! Hope you and your family are all well :

Yes the Disney blahs can strike when you least expect it sometimes. It happens to us all but it won't last too long. I've found our weekly movie nights and taking a section at a time of our countdown calendar is a nice balance between keeping the magic going but not overloading.

 

[Tinker_Tam]

Hi All! Sorry I left you hanging for so long. I just haven't been feeling much like Disney lately. Did I say that? I am so hoping that it will pass.

Brenda is now feeling back to herself. Gavin is hopefully near the end of his cold. He always gets it so much worse because of his lacking immune system. He is having some tummy issues lately so I think surgery is right around the corner again, but we were expecting that. Jon's teeth are healing, although we have to call on Monday because he thinks he might have popped a stitch! MEN! UGH! I told him not to eat the Chex mix and then the pork chops...but i'll leave that alone.

I really have to tell you a story of something that happened this week. My daughter is the sweetest person I have ever known. I am so lucky to be her mom. Don't get me wrong, she can be a real handful sometimes, well most times... but who isn't. As I have also told you many times Brenda is the child that I feel often gets over looked. The attention has to be on Gavin's medical needs first and she gets what is left. I do try to plan "girls day" as often as I can, but that is never gonna be enough... at least not for me. I think in her own little way she has just come to except that... and she seems to be ok with it... at least as much as any 4 year old can be. I try very hard to make her feel special. As you all know Gavin's birthday is right around the corner. The four of us had some shopping to do earlier this week. Just some typical groceries and Gavin's dream gifts. Gavin is a HUGE Cars and Toy Story fan. His favorite is Cars (last years party theme). He has been wanting those color changing cars but they have been sold out around here. Every time the commercial for them comes on he remind us all that he wants those. The cars have been sold out here FOREVER! A friend of mine text me that Target had the cars in...so the next morning that was our first stop. Gavin pretty much knew he was getting them so it really was no big deal that he was with us...there are other surprises for his birthday. So we go and they had 2 different ones... Lightening and Doc Hudson. I picked those up. Brenda asked to go to the littlest Pet Shop aisle. I said that was fine but if she decided she wanted any she would have to take the money out of her piggy bank. **Story break-- Each of the kids have a piggy bank. They have had them since they were babies. We put extra change in them all the time and also, now they can earn change for the piggies by doing simple chores around the house. We talked to them when they figured out they were going to Disney. The money was supposed to be deposited in to the savings for later in life. We left them know that just this once we would use the piggy money for sovies in Disney. Of course, we will be buying them things, but this money is for things that normally we would say no to. Jon and I have no say in how they spend that money (within reason). They have been saving and saving. They most likely will end up with around $100...Gavin less as Brenda tries to be a HUGE help. Break Over** Ok, so I told her if she wanted a Littlest Pet Shop set she could take them out of her piggy. We went over and looked and at first there were 2 sets that she wanted...and they were on sale for a little over $5 at Target. One set had a pony and the other had an armadillo. I told her that was fine but she would have to take the money from piggy when we got home. She thought about it a minute and told me that just getting one would be fine. She didn't want to take too much out of piggy. She knew 1 set cost her a little over $5. I said fine and she picked the Armadillo one and we moved on to the cleaning stuff that I needed. When we got to the front of the store I took a browse through some clothes because Brenda is needing so fall/ long sleeved things. Target tends to clearance things really early so I wanted to check it out and see if they had anything for Brenda. She starts Preschool on Monday (and yes, I am a bad mom...we are not done clothes shopping. I was waiting for somethings to get marked down). She only goes 2 hours a day/ 3 days a week. Its more to get her some time away from this CrAzY house. When I come back to Jon and the cart of kiddos Brenda tells me that she isn't getting any Littlest Pet Shop. Her exact words "Mommy, I am making a grown up decision and saving that money for Disney". Wow! I was shocked. I asked Jon if he had anything to do with it and he said no. She had been looking at the back of the pack. One minute she was telling Jon and Gavin how much she wanted some new Littlest Pet Shops... and the next she was telling Jon to please take it away, she wanted her Disney money more. But the story doesn't end there... it gets even better...

So our next stop was Walmart. We had to go get some groceries and things. When we got there, we got everything we needed and ended up on the side of the store where the toys were. I told Jon that we should check and see if by chance they had gotten any color changing cars in. Jon mentioned that he was going to hardware for something. Brenda and I went to toys and the boys were off to hardware. We get to the Cars stuff and Brenda's face lights up. She sees Mater! She knows that Mater will make Gavin happy, as Gavin is starting to LOVE Mater the most...especially with those new Mater short cartoons on the Disney Channel. I get it down and have every plan on buying for Gavin. She turns and looks and me and asks "Mommy, can I get this for Gavin for his birthday using my piggy money?" Wow! I ask her if she knows its almost $7 which is MORE than her Littlest Pet Shop was. She said that was fine...she HAD to get it for Gavin. She was practically begging me to loan her money so she could get this for Gavin's birthday. I must admit that a tear rolled down my cheek...it just melted my heart so much. So I left her buy it. She checked it out. I got her a gift bag and card for it. She is keeping it a secret but asks me everyday when Gavin is not near, if Gavin's car is ok and when we will wrap it and sign the card. The other thing is, when we got home I got Gavin ready for bed. When I came to get her in the bath she reminded me that she had to get the money out of her piggy for me. I said we would do it in the morning and she told me that we should do it tonight so we don't forget and so that Gavin doesn't know. WOW!

Now I really need to tell you that its all I could do to not run back to Target and get her both sets, the horse and armadillo, and give them to her.... and if Jon had not been with me I probably would have. I know we have a strict budget right now and things are tight, but I would have bought her a 100 sets that day. We have a girls day coming up...need to finish picking up some school clothes and a pair of shoes. I am hoping that there will be a few dollars left to sneak a Littlest Pet Shop in. The other thing that Brenda will be so excited about is the new Tinkerbell movie comes out on Tuesday. I am hoping that we can find it on Redbox and take it out. She will LOVE it. She is a HUGE HUGE HUGE Tinkerbell fan. In fact, I should post a picture of her last year in her Tinkerbell costume. She thinks this year she is going to be Silvermist.

Ok, if you read this whole post, thanks for letting this CrAzY mom babble on!

So the award for the most giving daughter in this CrAzY family goes to Brenda!

 

[Mickey_Mom]

So the award for the most giving daughter in this CrAzY family goes to Brenda!

Soooooo sweet! ... and yes, please do post that Tinkerbell pic!

 

[eecteacher82]

AWWWWWWW!!! How sweet is she?!! I would have been in tears too! You have an amazing little girl on your hands, and I'm sure it's because her mommy is amazing too!

 

[Tinker_Tam]

Tam, no need to apologize. Every day life takes priority over the DIS, and we certainly understand that you have your hands full. I hope both kids, and hubby too, are feeling better soon.

I get in the doldrums every once in awhile prior to a Disney trip. What I usually do is go and read a trip report from someone who has just gotten back (or even a PTR of someone getting ready), and it usually gets me in the spirit pretty quickly. I have to admit this trip I haven't had any doldrums, but that could be because my DH had two procedures done and we really need the trip. In fact, can't wait to be there in three days.

I have taken your advice and have been reading tons of posts lately. I guess I am just feeling like it is never going to get here...and we all need a good time so badly. This trip is exactly what we need. Yea, for 3 days...although I am thinking that you are there by now as I am slow poke! Sorry about that!

Hey there, first off don't apologize for not posting, you have alot going on right now! Everyone understands. And I hope everyone in your family gets to feeling better soon and that if Gavin does go in for another surgey that it also goes well. My guess is your ho hum feelings are just becuase of everything going on right now, that is really alot for one person to deal with. And in all honesty the trip is still a ways off. I know we are all double digit dancing and such, but I just hung my 100 day countdown a few days back abd truthfully was a bit shocked by how many days we have to cover until we go! SO I bet the feeling will pass as everyone in your home starts to get to feeling better and your disney spirits will return. In the mean time know I am thinking of you and your family!

Thank you for thinking of us. It just seems that this year we have been hit pretty hard in every way imaginable. I do think we are given no more than we can handle though...just wish He thought I could handle less!

I was going to do a 100 day countdown...then I thought about it. I don't think I could handle 100 days. I think we will do a 50 day party and then start the countdown from there. I know Brenda will love being able to countdown till Disney. I need to get moving on that too.

Sick kiddos are no fun! I'm sorry to hear you have been dealing with all of that.

As for the Disney frump - yep! It happens. Planning a trip is a lot of stress, and when you have more stress on top of it, it just seems meh. We didn't have a trip planned, but I was in the midst of writing a TR when we had a million things going on with attempting to sell our house, wanting to move, and basically having ZERO money, I was stressed -and I just didn't have the energy or desire to write about happy fun stuff when this craziness was going on in my life.

I hope things calm down for you and just go back to your normal cRaZy.

Its nice to know that I am not alone in the Disney dumps. When you read most posts on here everyone is up and cheerful and all about Disney. Its nice to know that, on occasion, most everyone goes through the blues about the trip too.

I do think things are slowly getting back to my normal CrAzY. So glad for that.

Don't worry about the Disney slump! You've got so much other really important stuff on your mind right now....that kind of stuff tends to suck the joy out of things we normally enjoy. It will pass.

Thank you. I am starting to feel a little better. Just thinking about everything I have to do yet. Although I do think most of my problem right now is that it seems that Disney will never get here.

Don't even worry about it. We're still here and we all have times like that where reall life just takes priority.

It must be in the air too. I actually had the blahs this morning when I woke up. I have depostis down on the trip we MAY take in Dec. so that I can have the resort I want for the dates I want with free dining. I wil lcancel then if needed, when the time comes, but I was so close to just calling and canceling this morning. I just so blah and it's not that I don't want to go, I do more than anything, but I just seem to have alot on my mind and tired of not knowing for sure whats going to happen day by day here.

You all deserve this trip coming up, and you'll have a great time. Once it gets closer, you will be so excited and so will your kids. Sometimes when a household is sick, it can really get you down after a bit.

I hate the not knowing what is going to happen feeling. I tend to live most of my days with it...at least since Gavin came along. Any day can do a 180 in a matter of a minute. I guess part of me fears that something will come up and suck this trip down the chute.

I must say, the kids are so excited already. Every day I am asked if today is the day. During my slump I told them they couldn't ask me that again till they saw me packing the bags!

Hey there! Hope you and your family are all well :

Yes the Disney blahs can strike when you least expect it sometimes. It happens to us all but it won't last too long. I've found our weekly movie nights and taking a section at a time of our countdown calendar is a nice balance between keeping the magic going but not overloading.

I am hoping that once we get down to around 50 days that we can start the movie nights and countdown. Right now they would drive me crazy waiting for it once a week. Besides, it will most likely be just me and the kiddos...not sure how different that will be from every night!

 

[Tinker_Tam]

Ok, added treat for everyone still following along! Here are some pictures from last Halloween when Brenda was Tinkerbell. We always spend Halloween at Hershey Park (well, except this year... I guess the Mouse eats the chocolate! ). Gavin was so sick that he wasn't able to put on his costume. He still had fun off and on... usually after he rested in the stroller a bit.

This one is Brenda at her Preschool class for the Halloween party. I had to cut the other kids out and this is the easiest picture I could do it with.

Here are the kiddos at Hersheypark. You can see Gavin is not feeling up to being out of the stroller.

And the whole family at the end of the night. It was closing time for the park...and WAY past bedtime! I think Gavin was in mid-sneeze here.

PS... If you see me in the parks my hair is back to being dark brown! LOL

 

[Mickey_Mom]

Oh too cute! I loved it when the kids were all in their Halloween costumes and parading at school.

 

[Tinker_Tam]

Oh too cute! I loved it when the kids were all in their Halloween costumes and parading at school.

Thanks! I am just noticing that both kiddos need hair cuts last Halloween! Brenda had a great time at her school Halloween party. Her Preschool is inside a High School. Its one of the programs that allows the high school students to work with the small children. Really is a great program. So the kids all went door to door within the high school trick or treating! Every teacher gave them something and allowed them to come march around their room. Brenda came home with so much candy it wasn't even funny! Then once we picked her up it was off to Hershey...can you say Candy overload. Hershey does something very similar to Disney in that you trick or treat within the park. I am sure you can imagine how much candy you get at HERSHEY!

 

[jenseib]

What a wonderful sweet daughter you have. That is just too cute.

She is a very cute Tinkerbell. We are stil ldeciding what Claire will be this year, but it might be Ariel, at least that is what she keeps asking to be.

 

[taramoz]

Your daughter is such a sweet amazing person! That story was great!

 

[mrsksomeday]

Brenda is so sweet, what a lovely story. You are raising two wonderfully loving and intelligent children, I hope Bill and I get to meet all of you!