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There are other changes as well.
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We go on
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First of all......................SO SORRY that I have so MIA the last month. Second of all..................THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for all your continued support, whether it be here or FB.
I have been so consumed with us getting on with our lives that I have been neglecting so much else (including still haven't even logged into photopass since Scott and I returned from our getaway !). While things are starting to look up here - in the sense that MIL is starting to do MUCH better (we actually took her OUT for dinner last weekend and it was VERY pleasant!); SIL and neice finally moved out (although they still have a bunch of junk at MIL's that they need to get out), which I believe is contributing to MIL doing so well; Emily is doing FANTASTIC in school - all A's, in mostly honors classes for first semester in high school (pat on my back, so proud of her!); Emily is also keeping me quite busy with her dance schedule and social life (she has 2 boys asking her to homecoming......however, has decided to just go with friends as to not hurt anyone's feelings!); and I have finally started to take time for myself and have been busy with my photography - I have a professional photographer mentor who has gotten me out of my comfort zone and introduced me to a "new" zone - ALL manual - and I am LOVING it!!! I am once again ADDICTED to my camera!!! (secretly......well no so secretly........I would love to some day have my own photography studio/business! And Scott.........well, he continues to be incredibly busy with work, still working ridiculous amount of overtime, and dealing with all the financial business of his father's passing - making sure his mom is taken care of.
So I started editing more of my July trip photos to start preparing my TR - and of course, came to my file for July 9th.......the day my FIL passed - and part of me felt so guilty looking at these photos of us still visiting the parks on that day, but also found peace in them (in seeing the happiness all around us), and then also seeing the sadness in our eyes, but again the magic that came alive in Emily when she met with characters...........sorry feel like I am rambling, hope it makes sense?
Anyway - needless to say - I am still here............need to get caught up on the boards (feel like I have missed soooooooooooo much - and really MISS my friends here!!! ) - and eventually get to all 3 of my TR's - as I also feel that they will each help with the healing!
Many of you that are friends with me on FB have probably already "heard" (read) this, but I was watching Dancing with the Stars last week - and something that Jack Osbourne said really struck me................."if you don't have bad, you can't appreciate good". I am really starting to understand this is so true - through all of the angst and hurt my family has felt over the last few years, we have never been stronger.
(Disclaimer: I am copying this and posting it to all 3 of my threads, just in case someone different is not following each of them...........sorry if you have read this over and over )
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Lisa Co-Guide to Sharing the Adventure: Disney World Trip Reports
Lisa! No rush at all! We'll be here whenever you decide to finish and even if you don't. Happy to hear things are getting better! for continued improvement! (And I'll just type this here and not on the other 2. )
Glad everything is looking up, especially with your MIL.
Congrats to Emily for doing so well in class her first semester in high school.
I feel for you and Emily with your schedule. I have one more week and then the only evening I will have free will be Fri and Sun. We will have basketball games on Mondays, dance on Tues and Thurs, Wed is church, Sat will be volleyball tournaments and I still have to get my youngest into gymnastics. Ugh!! We will be living on dinners made in the crockpot until February!
Can't wait for your trip report!
Lisa! No rush at all! We'll be here whenever you decide to finish and even if you don't. Happy to hear things are getting better! for continued improvement! (And I'll just type this here and not on the other 2. )
Thanks!!! maybe I will beat out Dawn for taking longest to post !
Taking it one day at a time!
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Originally Posted by disneydreamer33
Glad everything is looking up, especially with your MIL.
Congrats to Emily for doing so well in class her first semester in high school.
I feel for you and Emily with your schedule. I have one more week and then the only evening I will have free will be Fri and Sun. We will have basketball games on Mondays, dance on Tues and Thurs, Wed is church, Sat will be volleyball tournaments and I still have to get my youngest into gymnastics. Ugh!! We will be living on dinners made in the crockpot until February!
Can't wait for your trip report!
Thanks! I am very proud of Emily! She is at the studio 5-6 days a week! Right now Tuesdays and most Sundays are our only days off!
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Originally Posted by Cam22
Take your time! We'll be here whenever. Take care of yourselves, too!
Thanks Cam! We will!
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Lisa Co-Guide to Sharing the Adventure: Disney World Trip Reports
Thanks for catching us up, Lisa. I'm so glad this absence has been mostly for good reasons-- a busy life-- and not illness! Wonderful that your MiL is doing better. BIG congratulations to you all for Emily's fantastic first semester of high school. Such a mature decision to go with friends to homecoming instead of choosing one of her suitors. Your descrpition of July 9 in the parks is very poignant and I'm glad in the end that it's a healing memory.
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Thanks for catching us up, Lisa. I'm so glad this absence has been mostly for good reasons-- a busy life-- and not illness! Wonderful that your MiL is doing better. BIG congratulations to you all for Emily's fantastic first semester of high school. Such a mature decision to go with friends to homecoming instead of choosing one of her suitors. Your descrpition of July 9 in the parks is very poignant and I'm glad in the end that it's a healing memory.
Thanks Laurie!!! I almost sent you a personal message - as I knew you were not on FB and you have a such a BIG heart - I knew you would be wondering .
Yes - the lyme is still there - but I am kicking it's rear! We are quite proud of Emily!!!
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Lisa Co-Guide to Sharing the Adventure: Disney World Trip Reports
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that I have so MIA the last month. Second of all..................THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for all your continued support, whether it be here or FB.
!). While things are starting to look up here - in the sense that MIL is starting to do MUCH better (we actually took her OUT for dinner last weekend and it was VERY pleasant!); SIL and neice finally moved out (although they still have a bunch of junk at MIL's that they need to get out), which I believe is contributing to MIL doing so well; Emily is doing FANTASTIC in school - all A's, in mostly honors classes for first semester in high school (pat on my back, so proud of her!); Emily is also keeping me quite busy with her dance schedule and social life (she has 2 boys asking her to homecoming......however, has decided to just go with friends as to not hurt anyone's feelings!); and I have finally started to take time for myself and have been busy with my photography - I have a professional photographer mentor who has gotten me out of my comfort zone and introduced me to a "new" zone - ALL manual - and I am LOVING it!!! I am once again ADDICTED to my camera!!! (secretly......well no so secretly........I would love to some day have my own photography studio/business! And Scott.........well, he continues to be incredibly busy with work, still working ridiculous amount of overtime, and dealing with all the financial business of his father's passing - making sure his mom is taken care of.
) - and eventually get to all 3 of my TR's - as I also feel that they will each help with the healing! 
Lisa! No rush at all! We'll be here whenever you decide to finish and even if you don't. Happy to hear things are getting better! 
for continued improvement! (And I'll just type this here and not on the other 2. 
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