Following along!
so happy to have you here!
Climbing aboard to secure my spot for this adventure and will be back to read. Super excited to hear about all you have planned. Organizing for a group this big is no easy feat! But oh what a great time you are going to have!!!
Yay!
Christine
It's a good group, I am starting to get very excited!
Hi Kristi!
so happy to have you here!
I wouldn't miss this BFP'd pre-trip report for anything. Poor Jeff really got initiated with that first family trip, didn't he?
I had tears in my eyes when you spoke about your friend and his daughter standing up to speak. Like she said (and your family agreed), it is important to spend time with your family doing things that you love. You never know when your time is up.
Looking forward to hearing more about your BFP.
BFP'd, I love that!
Lisa! It is important, you don't know and you do need to treat every day and moment (as best we can, which is HARD) as if it might be it.
Poor Jeff. I do believe in surrvival of the fittest
It's a tough crowd in some ways. We are so close that it can be a thing where either you fit in, or you don't. We don't mean to be that way but oh, over the years, the spouses have complained at times. That said, once you are really in, you are IN. My exSIL is not allowed to leave the clan. She tried. We said no. Thankfully she and my brother have an amiable relationship where that's worked out ok over the years, especially as time has gone on. She was so cute, everyone is invited to my house for turkey day and she responded with a yes, saying that while my brother had my nephew (and he had responded separately with a yes) that she'd be there and wasn't I proud she didn't check with him first. Why yes, yes I was! Family is born, but it is also made.
Yay i'm here!
And I love how the 'talk' between your family about going, became real. And I totally agree with her father. My parents could really never afford
Disneyland trips, but they would still take us, either every year or every other year. Then my father passed away. Now looking back, i'm so grateful for every trip that I had with him and I appreciate all that my parents went through to give us those trips.
Alicia!!!! We couldn't afford it either and yet we would do month long camping trips each summer. I have friends that are always commenting on how much we travel relative to their lives and well, it's just a matter of priorities. That time, those memories are so pivotal. Not that daily life isn't but as an adult, what you carry with you, often is those special non everyday things. Even if it's just a weekend at a lake in a tent. It is easy to to get bogged down in life, in finances, in work and not make the time. To me, the cost of not doing that is much much greater.
This will be one fantastic trip for you and your family!
I hope so!!! I think it will be a neat mix now that the boys are all so much older, we will get some group adult time in a way we don't always get. Though we all do get out together as adults semi regularly...as a group it is harder.