Dark Cloud/Silver Lining my DL-PTR About This Page:

[mommapants]

So every cloud has a silver lining. Right? That’s how the saying goes. But is it really true? You tell me? In order to judge I need to first tell you about the cloud. Sorry that this will start off as a bit of a downer but hey it is “the dark cloud” after all.

Back in 2014 I was scheduled for a WDW trip, me, my then 7 year old son, my mother and my 8 year old nephew. We had everything all book and were pretty much all set to go in August. However in May of that year my mother’s hip was bothering her and she thought she needed a hip replacement. Turns out she had a re occurrence of cancer. We cancelled that trip – boohoo!

I began to make plans for just my son and me to have a replacement trip in summer of 2015. Well finances didn’t work out and mom’s health continued to be questionable. I did manage a quickie trip that summer as I drove my mom from NJ to GA in June 2015 for her reunion and then my son and I had a whirlwind 2 days at Disney. ( I actually even wrote some of a trip report for it you can read it here before the black cloud moved in fully so I never finished) http://www.passporterboards.com/foru...d.php?t=288950

During all this time my son was diagnosed with ADHD and began taking medicine and tutoring and a treatment plan, that entire time and process has been stressful. My mom’s health was on a constant decline and her memory issues were getting worse. So life was looking bleak, let me just say that 2015 will not be remembered as a great year. The only joy was my hope that we could still get back to the bubble in summer 2017.

I had managed to save 2000 for that 2017 trip but after needing some dental work earlier this year and having a sick dog which needed to be put down I have almost depleted those funds. Not sure I would be able to replace the money in time for next summer I began to wonder if we would still be able to go or would we really need to scale things down. More dark clouds hanging over us. The summer 2017 trip has nothing on the books just yet so I am still hopeful.

Then this spring Mom really took a turn for the worse. She had a collapsed lung and spent some time in the hospital (very touch a go for several days) and then in rehab and then coming home. All very stressful and me and my siblings were burning through our days off. My son’s ADHD had “flared up” so there were a few months of stress with that while we readjusted his medicine.

In early April of this year mom refused all chemo treatments and the waiting game began. It took 5 long, stressful and emotional weeks but she passed away in mid-May 2016. She was finally at peace.

Now that the service is over and thank you notes have been written we are in the process of cleaning out her house with 50 years of stuff in it and getting ready to put it on the market. My son has been acting up as I have been spending too much time at Grandmom’s. So now I head over there after he goes to bed and falls asleep. Now at around 10:30pm I head over and do some work for an hour or two. As you can imagine I’m not getting enough sleep.

I really, REALLY could use a vacation, Um, but I have that all too common disease… myfundsarelow. That was until the beautiful silver lining in all this.

My mom has a really nice amount of money in her estate and we should be getting a partial payment in the end of summer, early fall. WDW 2017 here we come.

But I need a vacation . Good thing mom also had a life insurance policy which pays out almost immediately. So now I’m just waiting on a check for 12,000.!!!

I still can’t believe it. It would probably take me 5 years to save that amount of money and I’m just gonna walk in one day and bam there it will be. Crazy! It is like found money…so what to do with said found money? Well any good Disney fan knows and I can bet you have already guessed….we are going to Disney. But not Disney World my friends, we are going to Disneyland.

Ever since Carsland opened I have wanted to take my son. He loves the movie and I think he will love this. I haven’t been to DL since mid-90’s so there is a lot to catch up on. I am super excited. I NEED this. I will be using the 12K to pay off my credit card, do a few things around the house, put a little into rainy day fund and STILL be able to take this trip. I am beyond excited. I am mean how many times in your life do you have a spare 12,000 dollars???? Like Never.

I just feel soooooo much stress lifted from me.

So you tell me does my dark cloud have a silver lining? I think so.


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