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I have learned a "dream" anything is often disappointing. When we work ourselves up to obtain something perfect and ideal, it is very hard for the experience to love up to those expectations.
And you and you family have lots of options including splitting up as much as you like. Even without DNeice, I would suggect separation from time to time. We have taken many vacations with extended family. Time apart is as important as time together.
I love how you don't need to have the best of everything, to spend more money than you can afford and buy your son everything under the sun to have a wonderful vacation. It is those values that will make this vacation a dream.
We often vacation with my sister and her family. My DD (now an adult) still remembers the hours she and her counsin spent operating a shell store on the cottage driveway-not something we planned and if I remember they wanted to have their store more than many of pur planned activities, but it made beautiful memories.
Update: DDad didn't go for it, he still wants to keep it a 5year and up family experience, and probably the best thing will be for DSis to hold off for the next trip, when her kiddos will be 10 and 6.
Complicates things. Dang it. Well, I'll just have to go with the flow and see how it rolls out in time. Tough.
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I wasn't ready to hear your advice either, Laurie and Huntermom. I didn't want to give up my dream vacation! But I do have enough experience to know that it's the unpredictable and new that brings fresh energy and excitement to life.
To be continued!
I know! I hesitate to give advice because I don't much like getting it myself. It sounds like your dad laid down the law, though and you will get a smaller family trip as you'd hoped. Maybe you can do something at home with your sister's family just to spend some time with them. A picnic or something low-key, so the kids can play and you and your sister can chat.
I keep meaning to post, and I keep getting distracted halfway through!
I'm stuck in the middle now, with Ddad and Dsis. I hate it, and it has cast a bit of a shadow on my trip planning. I put my foot in my mouth by changing my mind only to have Ddad say "No way". I still might convince him, but meanwhile, DSis is hanging in limbo, which does not feel great. Yuck! I'm going to let time work on it for a while. Messy messy messy because of the potential for hurt feelings. Dsis is being cool though, and has said that it's ok if they don't go.
In other planning news, we are less than 60 days out! It's time to think about concrete stuff like packing lists.
Scent: We won't be doing any holiday decorating at the condo, but I'd like to keep a cinnamon scent going to mark the season. I think we'll go for boiled apple juice with nutmeg and cinnamon, thrown in a slow cooker.
Clothes. As I mentioned earlier, our family will do matching outfits. I just got my machine services and I'm technically ready to start creating my dress. I've decided to use some techniques I have found on the web to create my own dress pattern. We'll see how it goes! I also need to make the men's shirts. That's going to be even harder, although it will be with a pattern. This will be the first men's shirts I have ever made. If I master it, maybe DH and I will end up like Don and Nancy Featherstone. Do a google search if you want to know, they are my current FAVORITE pop culture heroes. https://www.google.com/search?q=don+and+nancy+featherstone&tbm=isch&tbo=u &source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB0QsARqFQoTCJ7H9NmPqcgCFck siAodvzIHVA&biw=1366&bih=631
I couldn't resist, I did it for you! Take a gander. Don is the original creator of the pink lawn flamingo.
I better post this now before I get distracted and lose this entry to the web vortex.
I saw a feature recently on one of the newsmagazine shows about the Featherstones. I love the idea of a whole family outfitted that way. Didn't you make your DS's shirt that he wore on your last WDW trip? I think it was the same print as one of your dresses? Very cute!
Yes, our family is BIG into matching tourist outfits. It's really fun and puts a festive spin on our adventures. DH and DS are into it too (DS may change his mind as he ages, depending on how his sense of humor develops!)
DH and I discovered the magic of coordinated outfits on a trip to Vegas in 2005. We didn't have identical outfits, but both wore vintage outfits with lots of lime green in them.We got lots of special treatment on that trip, and it had us sold on matching outfits for vacation from then on.
For the guys...I'm scared. I don't have experience making dress shirts. I will be using a pattern and following measurements carefully. I also plan to have my mom help me with the button holes, as I have never mastered that.
For my dress, I've looked at tons of patterns, and I have decided that since I want a really good fit, I'm going to try to make my own. I'm following a technique a friend told me about:
Put on a long, old shirt that you are ok with throwing away.
Have a friend wrap your torso with duct tape, completely.
Cut yourself free up the front or down the back.
(I've already done up to this step, when I had a crafty friend stay with us for the week a few weeks ago.)
Now you have a perfect body mold that can be drawn on and cut into individual pattern pieces.
This is kind of the look I'm aiming for, but not exactly:
I know, isn't it? I should post pics. I guess at some point I'm going to need my own camera?
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Cam22 Cool way to make a pattern for a dress!
Can't wait to see how it works!
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chezp Wow, great tip for the body mould - not something I've ever thought of, but as soon as I read it, it made complete sense.
I know, right? Can't believe I never thought of it before! But, we'll see how it actually works. She really did the contour of my chest skin-tight, which wasn't what I wanted, I'm not going for a fem-bot look...So I'm going to have to try to adjust that.
Made anADR for BTBBQ! We have one weekend day planned, Saturday. At this point, it's going to be a rope-drop for CA with focus on shows and Frozen activities, but I thought an ADR for an early dinner (5:30) would be a nice way to beat the crowds.
I might change this for Monday the 7th, but hey, I've got options!
This is the week that ADRs come available for our trip. I'm thinking I might go ADR nuts, then just cancel a bunch of them later.
Please pray, send pixies, good vibes, whatever you got...
My Dsis's family has gone into crisis. Her son (adopted through DHS at age 4, now age 8) has been increasingly angry, violent, and out of control over the past 2-3 weeks. Yesterday his therapist recommended inpatient treatment. They are in the ER now waiting for a "bed" to open up for him. So sad, confusing, and hard.
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I put my foot in my mouth by changing my mind only to have Ddad say "No way". I still might convince him, but meanwhile, DSis is hanging in limbo, which does not feel great. Yuck! I'm going to let time work on it for a while. Messy messy messy because of the potential for hurt feelings. Dsis is being cool though, and has said that it's ok if they don't go. 
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