Who's sailing April 18-22, 2004 - gotta start this sometime!!

[DVCLady]

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[guardwife]

we got our docs today!!!

 

[guardwife]

just fyi

dh is steve 32, dd is margie elyse 4 and we have late seating

 

[bostonlass]

I did call Disney and they told me I have to call Expedia. I said, "well I did and they haven't received the documents yet so I wanted to see if they were sent", to which the woman said, "you'll have to call Expedia, ma'am, to ask all of your questions."

 

[goofy601]

Bostonlass - call them back - Expedia - and give the heck! Your trip is only a couple of weeks away and you need to have all those papers filled out...etc. You need them now! Sounds like you've been nothing but nice so far -- and sometimes you have to be a little less nice to find out what's going on with people!

DH asked me to post his way of countdown - only 500 yards of mulch to spread before his vacation!!

DH tried on his dress shirt and tie this morning and at 6:20 - he came in the room - turned on the overhead light and scared me and the youngest DD to death - he looked handsome - but it was another rough night with Cara. She gets extremely constipated - now has a fever from it and is just miserable. Ah the joys of parenting!

Is it ever going to stop raining? I think my swing set just sunk another couple of inches in the muck that used to be my backyard!

See you all soon!
and and even more

p.s. DF is Corinne and her DD's are Danielle and Brittany (11 and 15) and they are on late seating with us!

 

[immalemon]

Bostonlass-- I agree. You need to call them back, or maybe even have your TA call them back, since they were the ones that set it up with them. The weird thing is that my TA has shown to be a complete moron, so I have gone through Disney since for everything and they are being great about answering all my questions I might have. So maybe if you call back and get a different person??? I got my docs like a month ago.

Well, all , my family is starting to get better for the most part, so I am starting to get excited again.

BTW, we are late seating as well!! I guess I will see a lot of you there?

Well, take care all.....

PS, This year has been a bad year for me, and I am not in the best shape, actually the worst shape i have been in in my whole life. Should I be prepared for a total baywatch sean thing? LOL, I know this sounds stupid, but my confidence is not at the greatest right now.......

Amanda

 

[disneysailor]

Hi all,
I've edited the list with the info that you have given me. I hope it was ok to post the kids names but I figured they are all here on this thread anyway.

Bostonlass-Let's hope today is your day! I have a good feeling about it. I saw the post on the cruise forum from someone who ordered from expedia and just got their doc's so yours must be on the way!! Guardwife and DVClady congrats on your docs, time to start writing .

from immalemon

PS, This year has been a bad year for me, and I am not in the best shape, actually the worst shape i have been in in my whole life. Should I be prepared for a total baywatch sean thing? LOL, I know this sounds stupid, but my confidence is not at the greatest right now.......

Amanda, this is YOUR vacation so don't worry about what anyone else thinks, just think about what you are doing for yourself and what a great time you'll have. Hopefully this trip will be a start to a "wonder"ful year ahead. Glad your family is feeling better. goofy601, hope Cara is better soon.

See you all soon! Only 21 days to shorts and short sleeves!!!!

 

[bostonlass]

Well you all gave me some hootspa (dunno how to spell that) so I called and wouldn't you know they went out today! Even got the UPS tracking number so I can track the darn things. She said it's 2 day air so I'm betting on Monday. I guess that would be why the Disney gal directed me to Expedia but it is funny how she wouldn't come right out and say that they had already been sent over.

Now the wait...and the wait.

I feel *much* better!

Not physically though. My poor lil one has this big red mark under her nose from blowin' it every two seconds and this morning I woke up with a wicked bad sore throat. (can ya tell i'm from boston with the "wicked bad"??)

Amanda - I tried on my bathing suits the other day and heard my darling lil Megan whisper to Emily ..."mommy looks like the chubby bear in your book".

YOu know what though? I'm trying like a son of a gun and doing the best I can with WW and ...who cares if I'm a pooh bear?? We're going on a mickey ship!!

 

[guardwife]

Amanda, believe me I know exactly what you mean by a bad year i have put on soo much weight since my husband has been gone and trying to find a bathingsuit is really getting to me. dh has lost so much weight on his desert diet!
On good news just heard from dh and they should be flying back to the states on sat. so hopefully he will be home in about a week or soo!!!!!!!!

Our countdown is 20 days and a wake up, military of course.

goofy 601 i hope your dd is doing better there is nothing worse than a sick child.

Margie

 

[goofy601]

Hello All!
I'm suppose to be at the kitchen table working on the paperwork that my work dropped off - so that I can get hours at home while tending to Cara. I keep hearing the beeping that tells me I have a message - so I just had to check...I'm so bad!

SO - will everyone have their documents now? I certainly hope so. I was soooo worried about ours...now I just have to find a few hours to fill out all that paperwork. They ask everything but blood type! Oh well - we're going on a Mickey Ship - hip hip hooray!!

Cara's fever finally broke - I don't know if that was related to her constipation thingy or where that came from - but it was high -- ugh - enough to put ya in the nuthouse around here. She is finally getting a little "unstopped" - if that's even a word -- this poor kid - we've been doing this since birth with her and they have ruled out a couple of things and can not say exactly what it might be -- the dr was kind enough to say yesterday - that it "...could all go away once she's become toilet trained." They honestly keep telling us that she had a bad experience with a bowel movement at birth and has since decided that having a BM is bad and won't have one without pain?!? Ah the joys of parenting!!

Well, neither child wants to nap and I have a couple of hours of work to do - so it's off to being the wicked witch of the west...hee hee hee!

See you all soon...

Eddie, Lisa, Casey, Cristopher, Connor, Cara and Alice and Corinne and Danielle and Brittany

and and

 

[thebets57]

Hi!! It's been a crazy week at work (and home) as anticipated!!! I had to read a bunch here to catch up!!

Disneysailor - Thanks for putting together the group list!! Our names are Betsy46, Art49, DS Jonathan18 (birthday 2 days ago - YIKES!!!) and DD Catherine12. I'm having a bit of a crisis being the mother of an 18 year old!! I asked him how someone so young-looking could have a child so old - he said "you just keep telling yourself that, Mom!!!. LOL

Bostonlass - WE DO NOT HAVE OUR DOCS!!!!! I've been so busy, I really haven't even been looking for them. I'll call the TA tomorrow. I get nervous because we live on a busy road, and twice before, our docs have been left at our front door (which is literally on the sidewalk, and a door we NEVER use...) Hope yours came. I can relate to the weight loss thing - it never ends!! I'm down 25 lbs since last year, but still not feeling at a totally comfortable weight yet.....sigh......Dieting and laundry - two things that will follow me to my grave ............ I'd love to talk to you about ebay. We're getting a new faster computer hooked up this weekend, and just bought a digital camera. When I figure them both out, I'd really love to give selling on ebay a try. My husband is an expert at buying things from there - he's constantly on it. With private school (DD) and college tuitions (DS) next year, it's going to be our only prayer for any kind of "fun money"!

Disney1fan2002 - I can't imagine how crazy you must be with the selling and buying of houses on top of planning the trip. Good luck, and I haven't started packing yet either - it's just too early for me. If I do it too soon, I lose my sense of organization!! You'll get it done.

Immalemon - The Beach Club is so beautiful. It would have been my first choice (if we had had one!) The pool is amazing there! I've read lots of great things about AKL, so hopefully, we won't be disappointed.

Sheilacat - Another family from Massachusetts!! Welcome!! We live in Ipswich.

Guardwife - Welcome to you too!! Yours is an amazing story. You will love cruising, and it should prove to be the perfect way for your family to readjust. I'm so thankful your husband will be home this weekend. You must be so excited!! I really miss my DH when I go on a rare girls get-away for a couple of nights. I totally respect all of your sacrifices. They arranged an unexpected reunion on the Today show this week with a soldier and his wife/dau12. I was all choked up, as was everyone in the studio. Did you catch it?

Well, I need to turn over the computer to the DS - homework time!! He got into all 6 of the colleges he applied to. The last letter (his first choice, and of course, most expensive) arrived yesterday!! Big decisions ahead!! My brain is really spinning in so many directions this week.........Where is that conch kooler???

 

[SCOTTOHIOCPA]

at least for now!

Hi all! It's Mrs. ScottOhioCPA.

Welcome Guardwife! So glad you and your family will be cruising with us.

I was wondering what happened to Sheilacat so I checked the April 17 thread and it appears she is going then.

We are expecting temps in the upper 60's this weekend in Ohio! (Doesn't take much to get me excited).

I had a job interview that went well Tuesday. Everyone keep their fingers crossed! I know my countdown will be how many days left at that stupid job of mine

And I'm praying that everyone on this board will be/stay healthy in time for the cruise.

Goofy601 - you're contagious! We're going on a Mickey Ship! Can't wait!

Take care all,

Julie

 

[travel with kids]

Ok--This whole bathing suit thing--I am looking for a really nice coverall (yes, coverall, not coverup!! ).

I hear you all on the bad year. Actually, this past year has been pretty good. The year before that was the worse one ever. This year I have hair and am not ill (last year at this time I had no hair and had to wear a mask for fear of infections!!). When I went to FL last year, I was so afraid that people would stare or say something (people can so rude!! ) I was very happy to find that the human race does have a soft side. Poeple treated me with the fullest respect.

ok--kids are going crazy and dh just got home (8:30pm) from the office . We are all so ready for this trip.

 

[thebets57]

Docs arrived!!!!!I had just sent my TA an email, as I knew it would be too late to call - one less thing to think about!!

 

[bostonlass]

Is anyone here gonna pay heed to the sea lice thing and bring safe sea? I'm not sure if I wanna put goopy stuff that's hard to come off all over the kids.

 

[immalemon]

Im going to look into it. I dont want to either, but I REALLY dont want my daughter to get stung either. I think I would rather be safe than sorry. She has never been to an ocean yet (we live in Colorado), and I would hate for her first memory to be an itchy one. I believe it is just a little thicker than other lotion, Safe Sea has a USV 30 in it, so I think I am just going to go ahead and get some. Just in case.

 

[sopandbass]

A belated welcome to guardwife and immalemon! And thank you to disneysailor for compiling the group list. I never got around to ordering whatever lime green things we were suppose to get - I'll have to look back through the thread. Do you think there's still time?

Speaking of time, I kept thinking we had lots of time until the cruise. We're delighted that it's so close!!!! In the immortal words of a cruise enthusiast ~ We're going on a Mickey Ship!

We have late seating for dinner so I'm hoping DD-3 doesn't faceplant into her entree due to exhaustion at that time of night.

Sea lice? Not another thing to worry about!

May we all have blessed journeys to the ship and I look forward to meeting each of you.

 

[SCOTTOHIOCPA]

Hi from Mrsscottohiocpa,

Sopandbass - there should be plenty of time to order pins. We got ours within a day or two of ordering!

Thebets57 - congrats on getting your docs! If only docs would come as fast as the pins!

Kids had a day off today. But it's been raining most of the day here I think the rest of the weekend is going to be sunnier. DH was home with them, except he has the sniffles now.

Planning to take the kids to the circus (Shrine Circus is in town this weekend) and meet a friend and her kids at the park this weekend. My DS actually asked me if we could do water balloons today! He asks that everytime the temp goes above 50! He was getting so upset because I said no. I said if you want to get wet, just walk outside. He said "OK, let's go for a walk." So what did we do? We went for a walk (with umbrellas). What us mothers do for our kids.:crazy

Take care everyone,

Julie

 

[bostonlass]

Ok.....saw a picture of a girl with sea lice bites and YUCK. Just ordered two bottles from the safesea website...they're offering 10% off and then if you try to leave the site they beg ya to come back and give you free shipping. The bottles are only 4 oz each so I figured we'd need two but I'm sure there will be plenty if anyone needs some.

 

[cori4disney]

Hi! I am Corinne - goofy601's friend! We will be sailing with you. It will be myself and my 2 dd's - Brittany 15 and Danielle 11. See you all soon!