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Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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View Poll Results: About 20 hours from Pittsburgh to WDW with 2 toddlers do you?
Drive down early in morning allowing for play stops and overnight stop near FL hit park in a.m.?
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Drive through night while they sleep and push through morning straight to WDW for check in?
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daddyof2princessess
momof2princessess
2 princessess
MIL
8 yr old Niece (that one came from absolute nowhere)
So right now I am "busy" packing while mom is wrestling the fore mentioned princessess (don't read that part momof2princessess). Yeah.......... Very excited about the trip and way not motivated for all the packing. The timing makes motivation difficult (has nothing to do with my natural laziness I swear). Seriously got family Christmas party today-then work the week-follow that with Christmas Eve stuff-toss in Christmas and umpfff you got busy (even for non-lazy people). So, I am taking the high and being a man about it…………. That’s right I am hiding and hoping mom saves me.
I love reading your PTR, you are hysterical I love how you are soooo into the Disney scene. It looks like you trip is just around the corner now, I hope you have a great time.
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To add to your list of stuff and hope your DDs aren't at the "Toddler Temper Tantrum" stage, just thinking how you have toddlers, seeing temper tantrums in the middle of Main Street sitting with arms and feet crossed and not willing to move for the horses. Or the "Scene Causers" over not having ADRs and are demanding getting in. Hope you have a great time. It will be here before you know it, and defanitely a great way to kick off 2010!
Only 5 days left. I am sure that you are as excited as me. It would be fun for our families to bump into eachother. Your 2 princessess meeting my 2 princessess.
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Trish ,
Me and the family Magic Kingdom New Years Eve December 29, 2009-January 9th, 2010
Wow it's here! May have to stop half way through this for a quick panic attack or two. What kind of weirdo plans for a WDW trip leaving the day after Christmas anyway (like there isn't enough already to make Christmas nuts)? How hard can it really be (rehtorical question...I already know the answer)? Just a couple extra things to do no biggie........
Let's see here:
1.) Buy presents for 2 princessess
2.) Plan Disney
3.) Make a handful of shirts for Disney
4.) Replan Disney based on who now isn't going and who is going and who isn't going now and who is going now and who just dropped last minute blah,blah,blah
5.) Quick Christmas party the Sunday before ( the Santa suit still needs WHAT?)
6.) Keep going to work
7.) Christmas Eve (Church then party and drive until they are out cold)
8.) Finally think about loading the van (yeah just a bit late)
9.) Wrap presents (mom actually did that I am horrible so MIL and I tried figuring out the van)
10.) Pull off perfect Christmas (jury is still out there but I think we got it)
11.) hold on panic attack...............
12.) Actually load Van
13.) Visit Grandparents (a.k.a my family)
14.) Perfect Christmas dinner back at our house (MIL is cooking while we are visiting my family.......I think)
15.) Get neice at 9:30 a.m. and a quick 20 hour drive to disney
16.) Rewind forgot getting momof2princessess a gift crap got to figure that out fast...........
I mean honestly what can go right here? No sorry meant WRONG here (honest). As everyone knows there is so much that isn't on the list. It's surreal at this point.
The one thing that will help a lot is to remember the true meaning of Christmas, our Savoir Christ (and trust me I need saving right now). Even with all this going on it's easy to ignore him (some people say forget, but we all know so we are just ignoring him). I refuse to do that this year. Mary and Joseph traveled 100 miles with her being 9 months pregnant on a donkey so I think we can do this.
Next post will be from Kingsland, Ga folks. Merry Christmas to all! Please remember those in our Armed Forces right now who will be spending this Joyous day in harms way.
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