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The Great Procrastination Pre-Trip Report/August 2011
Hi guys! I should be writing the vocabulary post test for my seventh grade reading skills class. What am I doing instead? Well, I’ve spent time on Facebook and time here on the boards. I figured that I would type up the PTR I’ve been working on for a week or so. Maybe I’ll get brave enough to post it…That sounds so much better than writing the test.
Introductions:
I’m Jen. I’ve been reading trip reports for a couple of years and have been living vicariously through people’s trips and experiences. Thank you so much for all the information you’ve given me. I’m a teacher and relatively good at procrastinating.
John is my dh. He’s a computer geek for a living and he builds race cars in our garage. John is amazing at procrastinating.
Jack is my ds. He’s six. He loves basketball and driving his go-kart. He’s my apprehensive one. He’s not one to rush into any adventure. He’s got to think about it first.
Julianna (or Anna) is my dd. She’s four. She is…well… I can’t really pin a description on her. She’s unique. She’s inconsistent. She’s Anna. Here’s an example. Yesterday we took the kids to IKEA to walk around. Every time she saw someone (and the place was crowded), she would go “AHHHH!” I kept reminding her to be nice. After a while, she was telling people, “Be nice!”
John, Jack & Anna. I'll try working on sizing pics for next post.
The Trip:
August 19 – 26th, 2011 at POFQ.
Along on the trip will be the following:
Mom and Dad (also known as Margie and Howie, the old lady and the old man…we (meaning my sisters and I) never take possession of them when we talk about them. It’s either “your mother” or “your father.”)
Karen, Valerie, and Geri—my sisters. Geri is technically my cousin, but we’ve always thought of her as our sister—even though she has her own siblings we don’t consider them our siblings.
Liz, Haley, and Kristy –my nieces. Liz and Haley are Karen’s dds. And Kristy is Geri’s.
I hope that you and your family have a magical time at the world
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I come from a family of WDW lovers. My sisters have been more times than I can even think about counting. One of my sisters (the only one who isn’t going on this trip…she’s going sometime this month) goes at least once a year. I’m not so fortunate. One reason is, honestly, money; another is my anti-Disney dh.
I shouldn’t say that John is anti-Disney. He is not exactly ANTI anything. He does, however, fail to see why anyone would even want to go to WDW more than once every five years. He says five years, but he means ten. Right now, he is referring to this trip as “our vacation to see the giant rat.” Whatever. At least we’re going, right?
I’ve been itching to bring the kids to Disney for a long time. Jack went a couple of times: once in 2005 when he was about 7 months old and once in 2006 when he was about 16 months old. He doesn’t remember, obviously. We haven’t been since. John had no interest in going until he was convinced it would be more for the kids than the adults. He didn’t complain if I wanted to take the kids with my sisters when they were very young, but once Anna came around, it wasn’t so easy.
The thing is that my sisters live in Connecticut and I live in Massachusetts. They prefer to fly out of Bradley or one of the New York airports; I prefer Logan or T.F. Green. With one kid, especially Jack, it was easy to either fly and meet them or drive to meet them and then fly. With the second kid (Anna has never been an easy kid. Lovable, sweet, funny. Yes. Not easy, though), it became very difficult.
When John and I were celebrating our 9th anniversary in August of 2009, we looked forward to our 10th anniversary and questioned how we would celebrate. I ventured that I would like to bring the kids to Disney, and he (surprisingly) agreed. Actually, our 10th anniversary would mark 10 years since he had been to Disney... Since I was on vacation and excited, I started to plan the trip.
John played along, too. We made all kinds of plans. We thought about how we could get a villa or a family suite. We could invite two of my sisters or his parents to come along and we would have live-in baby sitters! How awesome would that be?
Thankfully, John is wise—even if he is not a Disney fan. I wanted to book once we were able to do so, but he said we should hold off. He was concerned about the security of his job. For the previous two years we had watched and waited while his company had rounds of lay offs. After each round, we would sigh in relief. Unfortunately (or actually fortunately), the relief was not to last. In December of 2009, he was laid off from his job of 9 years. We were suddenly glad that we hadn’t booked anything.
His unemployment lasted about six months—long enough for him to start (and not finish) a lot of projects around the house, but not long enough for us to be too financially strapped. He was hired at another company (in the building next to the one he used to work at) in June of 2010. This job is way better than his old one. He likes it a lot more and I think it’s better for him.
So the trip was back on! Instead of for our 10th anniversary, we decided to plan it for our 11th.
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