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Thanks for the encouragement and the good wishes for Jack. He's over it. He had a great day with his Dad and his cousin and their go-karts.
I've done nothing in regard to the trip in a few days. I haven't even been on the boards...This means that I still haven't called AAA.
I'm wondering if you can help me. I'll post this somewhere else, too, but here's what I'm looking for.
Does anyone know of a book for little kids about going to the airport and getting on a plane? I'd like to get one for the kids because they've never flown before.
Don't know how much this will help regard kids but STARBRIGHT had a post and mentioned a book "Flying Without Fear" by Duane Brown. She says it helped her immensely with her fear of flying It explains what is happenning with bird during flight and explains what you feel Hope it hels or maybe puts yoou on a track towards what you need
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I got two books for the kids about flying on a plane: Going on a Plane by Anne Civardi and My First Trip on an Airplane by Vic Parker.
My cousin is a librarian and she did a little research for me and gave me a list of books that might be appropriate. I ordered the first two I could find on Amazon and it worked out really well. One of the books is more expository, which appeals to my son. The other is more narrative, which appeals to my daughter. I recommend both.
I've been away on a school field trip all week so there is no other planning to discuss. We bring our seventh graders to a summer camp for four days and three nights. It's an amazing experience for everyone involved, but it takes its toll on me. This week end will be all about relaxing for the 9 days of school I have left.
Jack had another run in with the neighbor boy. Jack was over there playing and when the kid's mom went inside, the boy began a sand fight. They had already been yelled at for throwing sand at one another. Jack didn't retaliate because that's really not his nature. Because he didn't retaliate, he got clobbered. The poor kid had so much sand thrown at him, he swallowed a fair bit, had it up his nose and in his eyes. I was in the front yard with Anna and I heard Jack crying. I didn't immediately jump up because he cries a little too much over little things sometimes. But he kept crying. So I called for him to come home. When I saw him I was angry. He was obviously in distress. He was wretching with sand.
I went and got him and brought him home. The dad was at the pool. He couldn't see the sand fight, but he could hear the boys and he was way closer than I was. The mom didn't come out of the house until I had opened the gate, pulled my son out, stopped to let him puke up more sand, and then was half way home.
Yeah. I know that Jack cries a bit much, but it was more than crying.
They never apologized. The dad has been over a couple of times to see my husband, but he has never apologized or even asked how Jack made out. My husband has been polite, but not friendly. The mom volunteers with the school's PTO and she was at Jack's school for field day. She offered him a high-five.
Jack doesn't want to play over there anymore, which is a good thing, too because he is not allowed to play over there. There is another little boy who lives at the end of our street and he's not allowed to play over there either.
Now I have to find something to do next weekend because it's the kid's birthday party and I don't want Jack to be around for that...Yikes
Thanks for all the support with our neighbor issues! I really hate that it's not working out, but it isn't. Maybe it will, again, in a little while. If it doesn't, I'm not sure any of us will be heart broken.
On the planning front, I did forget to mention something. Geri is going to take care of the prizes for the scavenger hunt. We decided that there should be prizes for the winners, but other prizes, too (runner up, Miss Congeniality, etc.). I'm excited that someone other than myself is excited about the scavenger hunt, too.
I have to call AAA this week. I should have time at work to get it done...We'll see.
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LOVE that you have such a nice family trip planned! I hope to one day have a trip like that!
Sorry for the neighbors...I just wonder what some people are thinking! People like that make me want to be a hermit...maybe a hermit in the Disney bubble? lol
Good luck with the planning and I hope AAA gets their act together for you!
I finally got around to calling AAA today. I took the day off to go to dd's pre-school closing ceremony. Too cute for words. I had some time this afternoon.
Instead of dealing with the Boston office, I called the 800 number and was transferred to the voice mail of the original woman who took our original reservation. She called me back later this afternoon.
The only hiccup was on my behalf. I thought I had the Grand Gathering number my sister had given me, but when I reached into my Passporter to find it, it wasn't there! The flight confirmation and the paper work from AAA was there, but nothing regarding the grand gathering number.
I now have the woman's name, Josephine, and her email. This way when my sister calls me tonight with the number I just have to email her and it will be done.
She's arranging for Magical Express for us. When I told her about how crazy our flights were, she suggested I try Jet Blue. I then told her that we paid less than $700 for the four of us. She said that perhaps we could just live with the crazy.
I've been sending the little hints and facts to my family; although, I'm a bit behind. I'll catch up because I've only got four more days of school before vacation!
I feel good about the AAA exchange today. The next thing to do is to send her the Grand Gathering number and then link our dining reservations to our confirmation number.
That can wait until next week...or the week after.
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