Twoboysnmygirl
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Welcome! My name is Karen and I'm a serial PTR/TR writer on the DIS. 
This is a special PTR, just for my daughter Savannah & I. 
The title is a bit of a dig at my "Neverending PTR" that I started a few years ago. I started a Pre-Trip Report and we postponed twice and then canceled and then tried again. It was a hard time for us, financially, we nearly lost everything, and I really kept myself sane by dreaming of Disney. It was that spark of hope that I needed at the time, but it made for a pretty sad PTR when I kept having to put it off b/c we couldn't afford it.
Well, the spell was broken when we finally got back on our feet and got back to WDW in January 2012! It was magical and as amazing as I had hoped for, but I think some of that worry and feeling like it would never happen for us, lingered. So, naturally, I planned yet another trip!
It was just a 3 night trip with my husband, Rey, to get away for our 21st Anniversary(in November 2012). We had only gone away for 2 nights previously in our 21 years together! So, I still spent most of my planning worrying that it wouldn't happen. I worried right up until the trip, I kept thinking we would cancel like so many times in the past...but we didn't! We had a fantastic trip, you can read about it in my TR link below.
Too much talk! Need pictures! BTW, if you don't know me already, I'm a photographer amongst many other things, and I MUST MUST MUST post pictures. If I don't, you know I'm sick or something b/c there's nothing worse than a pictureless post.
Introductions!
This is me, Karen, I will STILL be 39 (by a few weeks!) when we go on our trip! I homeschool my kids (I have 17 & 18 year old sons as well), I have my own petsitting business which single handedly funded this trip btw, I'm a photographer and a runner. Rey (my amazing husband) took this last week on our balcony at AKL!
This is my daughter, Savannah. She's 12 going on 18 and not in a horrible way. She's very mature, I consider her my assistant, she's been petsitting with me since she was 3 and just recently did a job alone while I was gone on my trip with Rey. I want to gush all over here about here, but I'll save it. I'm crazylucky to have her for a daughter, she's amazing.
This shot of us and the previous were shots I took for her 12th bday photo shoot in October.
Our trip will be for 4 nights, February 5th-9th 2013! Today is actually 80 days from our trip and one of the reasons I decided to start the PTR before I was done with my TR from my Anniversary trip.
So... I feel like the spell has been broken. We DID get back, we didn't have to cancel, we WILL go again...and most likely again...and again...and again!
This is a special PTR, just for my daughter Savannah & I. The title is a bit of a dig at my "Neverending PTR" that I started a few years ago. I started a Pre-Trip Report and we postponed twice and then canceled and then tried again. It was a hard time for us, financially, we nearly lost everything, and I really kept myself sane by dreaming of Disney. It was that spark of hope that I needed at the time, but it made for a pretty sad PTR when I kept having to put it off b/c we couldn't afford it.
Well, the spell was broken when we finally got back on our feet and got back to WDW in January 2012! It was magical and as amazing as I had hoped for, but I think some of that worry and feeling like it would never happen for us, lingered. So, naturally, I planned yet another trip!
It was just a 3 night trip with my husband, Rey, to get away for our 21st Anniversary(in November 2012). We had only gone away for 2 nights previously in our 21 years together! So, I still spent most of my planning worrying that it wouldn't happen. I worried right up until the trip, I kept thinking we would cancel like so many times in the past...but we didn't! We had a fantastic trip, you can read about it in my TR link below.
Too much talk! Need pictures! BTW, if you don't know me already, I'm a photographer amongst many other things, and I MUST MUST MUST post pictures. If I don't, you know I'm sick or something b/c there's nothing worse than a pictureless post.
Introductions!
This is me, Karen, I will STILL be 39 (by a few weeks!) when we go on our trip! I homeschool my kids (I have 17 & 18 year old sons as well), I have my own petsitting business which single handedly funded this trip btw, I'm a photographer and a runner. Rey (my amazing husband) took this last week on our balcony at AKL!
This is my daughter, Savannah. She's 12 going on 18 and not in a horrible way. She's very mature, I consider her my assistant, she's been petsitting with me since she was 3 and just recently did a job alone while I was gone on my trip with Rey. I want to gush all over here about here, but I'll save it. I'm crazylucky to have her for a daughter, she's amazing.
This shot of us and the previous were shots I took for her 12th bday photo shoot in October.
Our trip will be for 4 nights, February 5th-9th 2013! Today is actually 80 days from our trip and one of the reasons I decided to start the PTR before I was done with my TR from my Anniversary trip.
So... I feel like the spell has been broken. We DID get back, we didn't have to cancel, we WILL go again...and most likely again...and again...and again!
I'm happy to see you started a PTR! Oh, and 80 DAYS!!! 
I'm not one to really care much about distance of things and Rey definitely isn't. He could care less how long a walk is, thinks people are far too lazy, etc. but we both were shocked at how far those LM buildings were from the main AoA building. I might have still considered it if I was getting a discount, but this put me over the edge! 
