The Good, The Bad, & the Nuts! ...ANYONE GOING MAY 8-15?

[mom3sonstt]

It is 12:06 here so Happy 4th of July!!

31 Hat Days to go!

 

[jenb1023]

Great 4th of July hats!

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Happy 4th of July Tanya!!!! I am thinking you are celebrating your INDEPENDENCE from your dialysis machine!!! And I am celebrating that I am FINALLY all caught up!!!!
It was fun to read back before your transplant and "know the future" It has been quite a journey for you.

I"m excited that your trip will be so close, and it will be great when you can celebrate your independence from your scooter! Love all the hat pics!

When we went with my DSIS and kids, my nephew brought his Stitch and we took pics in all of the countries with him. It is fun to commemorate your trip around the world that way!

 

[mom3sonstt]

Great 4th of July hats!

Thanks! Don't know what direction I will take with the rest of them - just whatever catches my eye each day I guess.

Happy 4th of July Tanya!!!! I am thinking you are celebrating your INDEPENDENCE from your dialysis machine!!! And I am celebrating that I am FINALLY all caught up!!!!
It was fun to read back before your transplant and "know the future" It has been quite a journey for you.

I"m excited that your trip will be so close, and it will be great when you can celebrate your independence from your scooter! Love all the hat pics!

When we went with my DSIS and kids, my nephew brought his Stitch and we took pics in all of the countries with him. It is fun to commemorate your trip around the world that way!

Oh definitely celebrating the independence from the machine. Just the fact that I can go to bed whenever I want and don't have to think about what time I have to get up and make sure I get to bed at least 8 hours before that is wonderful - plus all the other perks of being off.

I am hoping that this will be my last trip with a scooter. I went up to the fireworks today. Last year I went and parked in the lot that we watch from, set up my chair and stayed put. This year I went up early to watch the team my husband coaches play, I went up to the concession stand a couple times for bottled water, and later a hot dog, then walked back over to where my car was parked to watch the fireworks. It felt so good to be able to do that and not be exhausted. I don't think I'm quite ready for a full day of walking the theme parks, but I certainly plan to ditch the scooter more often!

I bet watching Stitch take over the "world" was fun! I read some TRs by a gal who used to take her American Girl dolls with her to the parks and would do little "photo shoots" with them. She has just recently graduated college, she still takes a trip mascot, but it hasn't been the AG dolls recently, it usually something smaller - but still creative!

 

[marvali]

Enjoying the hat pictures! Hope you had a wonderfully Happy Independence Day! I know you are going to enjoy the amount of scooter-free days when you get to Disney! Can't wait to see you there and take a picture of you walking around.

 

[KatMark]

Tanya, hope you and the family had a great 4th of July (love the 4th of July hat pics).

 

[mom3sonstt]

Enjoying the hat pictures! Hope you had a wonderfully Happy Independence Day! I know you are going to enjoy the amount of scooter-free days when you get to Disney! Can't wait to see you there and take a picture of you walking around.

Me too!! Do you know what your schedule is looking like for those days - or are you more of a play-it-by-ear kind of family? We usually make real sketchy plans, then usually wind up doing something else once we get there

Tanya, hope you and the family had a great 4th of July (love the 4th of July hat pics).

We did have a nice day. Not really together....Danny coached his team's game then went home. Mark umpired the bases for the next ball game then wandered around with friends. Ryne just wandered around. I watched a couple ball games, then went over to my seat and chatted with a friend who was back from California, then watched the fireworks.

Very small-town stuff...

 

[mom3sonstt]

Getting ready to take Mark to the dentist so todays hats will be...

Can you tell me what they all have in common??


30 Hat Days to go!

 

[glennbo123]

Ha ha! Toothy hats!

I love the hats for the 4th....nice!

 

[mom3sonstt]

Ha ha! Toothy hats!

I love the hats for the 4th....nice!

Yep!

 

[mom3sonstt]

Hmm....let's see - today is the 6th, so in 1 month Danny and the boys will be joining me on "my" trip....so here they are

Ryne #2 son - age 20 - WWE and American Idol fan - his worlds collided this year when Hulk Hogan appeared on Idol to surprise a couple of the contestants!

Mark #3 son - age 17, will turn 18 on trip. He is a major Cubs fan and, sadly, is just "too cool" to smile and be silly like in this picture anymore

Joining us for his 3rd Thomas family vacation is Adam. He is #1 son in Mark's other family....or maybe Mark is since he's older, but Adam has seniority. He is the brother to Mark's prom date.....and he does not speak! At least he doesn't in the presence of adults

And then there is the father of the clan


29 Hat Days to go!

 

[mom3sonstt]

Nothing going on today, no special events, so no particular theme for todays hats

28 Hat Days to go!

 

[KatMark]

Nothing going on today, no special events, so no particular theme for todays hats

I have never seen this one before!

28 Hat Days to go!

My dad had a Goofy hat similar to this; I think it is still in my closet of some of his things.

 

[mom3sonstt]

I have never seen this one before!

That one wasn't really so much a character hat - it was in the Villain store (I think) and was just a stocking hat. Our granddaughter was a major Nightmare Before Christmas fan so we were checking out a lot of that stuff. Thought that hat was great!


My dad had a Goofy hat similar to this; I think it is still in my closet of some of his things.

Hang on to it! My father-in-law used to have a big stuffed Big Al from the Country Bears on the dresser in his bedroom. When he was moving to the nursing home and we were going through his stuff for an auction that was the one thing I really wanted....and it was nowhere to be found. Nobody "remembers" seeing it.

 

[mom3sonstt]

I've often wondered how I could possibly be my mother's daughter....other than crappy kidneys we seem to have nothing in common. She was a cheerleader and went to beauty school and hates to read. I was a bookworm, my best friends were boys and I don't even own a curling iron. There is so much more that we fall on opposite sides of. But after the 4th I wonder how I could even be related to her - let alone have half of my genetics come from her!

We were watching the Tball kids play ball and chatting, I forget what about, but something reminded me that I needed to put a bug in her ear about possibly picking me up from the airport when I return home from Florida. She asked when we were going and then said "Oh, I thought you were going to get out of that"

I don't know where that idea could possibly have come from. Before I went in to surgery the nurses were telling us how I shouldnt travel on long trips for about 6 months. We quickly did the math and realized our trip was about 5 1/2 months post-surgery and immediately brought that up. She said I should probably be ok to go. That was the end of that - we never stopped planning our trip.

Granted, I don't mention our trips to Mom too much - she just doesn't "get it". After we bought DVC I was talking to her about it and she asked "how long do you have to keep going there?" I told her that we "get" to keep going there until 2041....or whatever the year was at the time. But do you see how she words her questions??? It's like she thinks going to WDW is a punishment that I "have" to go to when I can't "get out" of it.

I swear - she couldn't possibly have given birth to me!!!

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Tanya! That is so funny! It must be her perception - Disney as a punishment for motherhood or something. I guess she just isn't listening to you. And it does sound like your personalities are different for sure. I guess on all your family trips as a kid, she was just "surviving" until you were grown up and she didn't "have" to go anymore!

You sure do have alot of hat pics!

 

[mom3sonstt]

Tanya! That is so funny! It must be her perception - Disney as a punishment for motherhood or something. I guess she just isn't listening to you. And it does sound like your personalities are different for sure. I guess on all your family trips as a kid, she was just "surviving" until you were grown up and she didn't "have" to go anymore!

You sure do have alot of hat pics!

She has only been twice. Once in 1977....we did the grand tour of Florida. Magic kingdom was the only WDW park and we only went one day. Then her and dad went with us in 1996. They spentthe first 3 days touring with us and the kids who were 3, 5, & 7 then. They spent the next 3 doing their own thing
The final morning we did the DVC tour then bought in the next year.

 

[KatMark]

Tanya, I feel the same way about my mother. I call her once a week because she is my mother, but I don't know how we are related. She went to Disney a couple of times with us when the kids were small and all she did was complain about the heat, what my father ate, etc. She was very unkind to my dad the last five years of his life and I guess I've never gotten over that.

But she too can't figure out WHY we go to Disney every year.

 

[mom3sonstt]

I've never had what I would call a real close relationship with mom. She was more involved with bret's class and activities because he was more involved in sports plus he was the oldest.
More recently we have butted heads when she decided to over rule me as seans mother. The short version is that we said he could have an apartment IF Danny approved the apartment. Then Sean said he was going to sign a lease on one that he hadn't shown Danny when he had spent the weekend down there looking with him. Earlier that year mom offered to loan Sean college money since the interest rates for his student loan was going to be so high. I asked her to back us on our decision on the apartment and to not loan him the money for it. She said that it was just a student loan. I couldn't talk to her for weeks after that. The kicker was that she said he needed to make his own mistakes.....which is ironic because she is funding everything so there are no consequences to anything he does. What made me angry about it is that she said that she let Bret and I make mistakes....which
we both did I raised my kids differently than we were raised....but apparently somewhere along the line I was not allowed to make mistakes raising my kids.
I still avoid bringing seans name up in conversation with her, especially because he is so obviously her favorite and mark is obviously her least favorite. I honestly don't think she is aware how she talks about the two of them. Things still aren't back the way they were, I am very careful about what I will and won't talk about. It's sad because my folks are the only family I have, and we are all she has. She doesn't have avrelationship with either of her sisters.
I think this is why I love this DISfunctional family so much.....I feel like I can be more myself here.



Sorry to go rambling down that lane....

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Tanya, I feel the same way about my mother. I call her once a week because she is my mother, but I don't know how we are related. She went to Disney a couple of times with us when the kids were small and all she did was complain about the heat, what my father ate, etc. She was very unkind to my dad the last five years of his life and I guess I've never gotten over that.

But she too can't figure out WHY we go to Disney every year.

Some people just don't get that it's about the memories we make. Walt created a place where it's easy to make awesome ones!

I've never had what I would call a real close relationship with mom. She was more involved with bret's class and activities because he was more involved in sports plus he was the oldest.
More recently we have butted heads when she decided to over rule me as seans mother. The short version is that we said he could have an apartment IF Danny approved the apartment. Then Sean said he was going to sign a lease on one that he hadn't shown Danny when he had spent the weekend down there looking with him. Earlier that year mom offered to loan Sean college money since the interest rates for his student loan was going to be so high. I asked her to back us on our decision on the apartment and to not loan him the money for it. She said that it was just a student loan. I couldn't talk to her for weeks after that. The kicker was that she said he needed to make his own mistakes.....which is ironic because she is funding everything so there are no consequences to anything he does. What made me angry about it is that she said that she let Bret and I make mistakes....which
we both did I raised my kids differently than we were raised....but apparently somewhere along the line I was not allowed to make mistakes raising my kids.
I still avoid bringing seans name up in conversation with her, especially because he is so obviously her favorite and mark is obviously her least favorite. I honestly don't think she is aware how she talks about the two of them. Things still aren't back the way they were, I am very careful about what I will and won't talk about. It's sad because my folks are the only family I have, and we are all she has. She doesn't have avrelationship with either of her sisters.
I think this is why I love this DISfunctional family so much.....I feel like I can be more myself here.



Sorry to go rambling down that lane....

Tanya, we have our DIS family for just these times - we rant, we cry, we pray together - so ramble away!

I'm sorry you are going through this with your son. I've been through some "grandparent issues" with my oldest - and the favoritism thing, too.

My advice - don't push too hard with him, or he will run to the Grandma side and just resent you. Of course with lots of prayer, he will come out okay. It's just a painful process. Ours had to make some HUGE mistakes before he stopped listening to Grandpa and started making wiser decisions. Of course turning 28 probably helps.

It's not right of her to go behind your back and give him money when you are trying to help him be safe and smart. I'm sorry for your struggles with this.