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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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The magic of Christmas is bringing back one of our favorite Orlando memories. In 2006 we went to Universal Studios for the first time. July tends to be our visit time as the children really are not off school long enough any other time of year and that year it was hotter than we are used to. We have a few days as high as 103 and our US day was one of those. The humidity was also high so high Peter kept asking me if we were in the rainforest. Anyway we were sitting having an outdoor lunch in the shade feeling rather sorry for ourselves (Scottish people are really really not used to heat). i remember seeing a lady walk past with three small stuffed toys in her hands. The next thing I knew she was standing beside me asking permission to give them to my "younguns" I think she might have been from Texas but my knowledge of american accents from that area is limited to watching Dallas in the 80's so i may be wrong. It was a very lovely suprise for my children. I thanked her and she handed me three toys from Shrek, a donkey, a lion and a leopard. after she left the first thought through my head was this is so lovely but how do I avoid a fight over the leopard. As soon as the thought finished almost simultaneoulsy Rory said i want the Donkey, Gemma asked for the Lion and Peter the Leopard. I have just been through their rooms and those toys are still amoung the favorites even though the older two are now teenagers. That lady really made three small children's holidays that year and those toys have somehow been more special to them than ones they have bought themselves.
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Scottish Hogmanay (with a stolen Picture)
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Sounds like you're having a wonderful Christmas in Paris. The US story is so sweet. What a kind lady to do that for your children! Good luck with the availability and decision-making!
Sounds like you're having a wonderful Christmas in Paris. The US story is so sweet. What a kind lady to do that for your children! Good luck with the availability and decision-making!
Thanks Laurie we are having a lovely break. I love the way the dates have landed this year we had a lovely Christmas and I still have a full weeks holiday before I go back to work. last year we had ages off before Christmas but were back at school and work by the 2nd which wasn't so nice.
hope you are not too blue coming down after your big trip to WDW but then at least you have SA to keep looking forward.
Happy Christmas to you guys and a very happy new year (good grief, it's New Year's Eve at home and in Paris as I write this ) - deciding what you want to change to at the seven month mark!
Happy Christmas to you guys and a very happy new year (good grief, it's New Year's Eve at home and in Paris as I write this ) - deciding what you want to change to at the seven month mark!
Best wishes for 2013 for you too. I had forgotten that it arrives a little earlier for us than for you. I love watching the new year come in across the world. Safe travels home.
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne* ?
For auld lang syne, my jo,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp !
and surely I’ll be mine !
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
We twa hae run about the braes,
and pu’d the gowans fine ;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin auld lang syne.
We twa hae paidl’d i' the burn,
frae morning sun till dine ;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
sin auld lang syne.
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere !
and gie's a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught,
for auld lang syne.
Thank you for the Burns moment! A close friend of mine is a Burns scholar (she edited the Penguin "Selected Poems" that's used in most classrooms and she would approve highly of your quoting this version.
Thank you for the Burns moment! A close friend of mine is a Burns scholar (she edited the Penguin "Selected Poems" that's used in most classrooms and she would approve highly of your quoting this version.
Thanks Laurie, I would imagine the Penguin version would be a much more conventional English language. new year doesn't seem like new year to us without a little Burns.
Thanks Laurie, I would imagine the Penguin version would be a much more conventional English language. new year doesn't seem like new year to us without a little Burns.
The Penguin version actually uses the versions contemporary to Burns' life-- unlike most texts used by Americans!
I am officially mad. I started packing today. I have all our toiletries packed and have packed all the kitchen stuff I take ( tea, coffee, sugar, washing power etc). Hubby came up the stairs ans saw what I was doing and just shook his head. He didn't even speak. Hopefully he won't call the men In white coats before we go
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