MinnieM123
Premium Member
Wow--that is cold. And no, I didn't realize you were on the same sort of latitude at St. Johns.
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Wow--that is cold. And no, I didn't realize you were on the same sort of latitude at St. Johns.
We don't get the snow though
MinnieM123
Premium Member
WE WANT TO SEE THESE!!!
Songbird76
Well-Known Member
FIL is a different sort of pickle. My MIL's main thing is her house....everything has to be perfect in her house. With my FIL, it's the garden. He can't understand how I would rather read a book than go out and weed the garden. He LOVES to be outside and he doesn't burn. I burn really easily, so I don't particularly like to be outside, and I have hay fever, so sitting outside burning to a crisp and sneezing constantly is not enjoyable....reading a book for my FIL is just about as pleasant for him as working in the garden would be for me. The difference being that I understand and accept that that's his hobby and he loves it, whereas he just keeps trying to change my mind. He sees reading as unproductive and being lazy, where I see it is engaging my brain, and working in the garden is pretty useless...I don't have flowers because I have no green thumb and I know I won't go outside to tend to them if I had them, so I don't have them. So both of them are pretty...assertive? about the way they like things to be. Though my FIL had to give up his veggie plot now and can't do his gardening because of the brain bleed he had in like...June. He's SOOOOO shaky now and very weak. He suddenly seems very very old, though he's really not. So I guess he's mellowed in the last 6 months because he can't do the things himself anymore. And I think also, they hadn't realized how hard it's been for us with DS until everything happened in September/October, and now he's more understanding of how we prioritized time. They see the huge change in DS now and are just starting to realize all we have dealt with since he was little, since no one seemed to be able to see the issues but me. Now that he is getting help, he's changed completely and they see now that I really needed help with him that I wasn't getting. They still see it as being lazy to want to have a PJ day and read, but they aren't as judgmental about the parenting decisions. Pickles, yes...but we develop coping skills to deal with the pickle moments...you shoveling snow, me going to the grocery store...just a chance to step out of the situation for a few minutes...or hours.
MinnieM123
Premium Member
Trust me you don't
@figmentfan423 , can you believe he really thinks we don't want to see a ferret take a dive in the freezing ocean water?!
Songbird76
Well-Known Member
My best friend's MIL is staying with them for the holidays. I had to remind her that penalties for murder are stiff and not worth it, PLUS no one looks good in prison orange.Family can't live with them or........
Songbird76
Well-Known Member
Never shared that bed with a small child, have you?
StarWarsGirl
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- No
He was saying with SWE opening that it would be crowded so we should just do Aulani that year.Was he trying to pick a fight? He'd do what with his points?Or his great European adventure or Cruise for 2019?
My brother and I were not going for it
How about a Euroean Disney cruise ?
StarWarsGirl
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- No
Considering my dad won't do Europe or cruises...very doubtful. Plus, the rate for trading in DVC points for the cruises is high. I personally wouldn't mind doing a cruise one of these days, but I think I'd rather start out with a short one, considering how I reacted last time I was on my grandfather's boat.
Can't argue with that. I would say that Donna doesn't do boats and even our cross channel ferry makes her green. Disney Magic - mo problem. I think the bigger the boat the less issue it is .Considering my dad won't do Europe or cruises...very doubtful. Plus, the rate for trading in DVC points for the cruises is high. I personally wouldn't mind doing a cruise one of these days, but I think I'd rather start out with a short one, considering how I reacted last time I was on my grandfather's boat.
DryerLintFan
Premium Member
It's the worst. And then they crawl into the skin on your back and say they just want to snuggle. You finally get to sleep and then you get woken up with feet in your face or your cheek soaking in another person's drool.
My thought was keep your eyes on the road in front of ya woman! This is how you run people over in those carts.
It was incredibly difficult to navigate the crowd when a stage show was happening. Worse than traffic driving by an accident. Nobody was looking in front of them, and I saw three strollers and two scooters run over the feet of one of the cast members on the bridge. I hope they wear steel toed boots!!
Yes. This. All of this.
It gets easier as they age...until 5 years later when ya have another one and the cycle starts again.
Ha!! That's not going to happen!!
DryerLintFan
Premium Member
^^^^The reason we like SOG(king beds and pull out) or a condo(king bed and separate rooms for the boys)
I was talking with my sister in law about going together in three years, and the whole trip I kept thinking about how we definitely would not be room sharing because I want my own bed next time
We are looking to 2020 for our next trip to the world. It will give SWL a time to ease offI was talking with my sister in law about going together in three years, and the whole trip I kept thinking about how we definitely would not be room sharing because I want my own bed next time
. And time to save to hopefully for Wilderness lodge. 
EDIT ; And because Bermuda has a new airport opening early 2020
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ajrwdwgirl
Premium Member
It's either get a new car or spend $1500 to replace the AC in mine.
The more I'm driving this rental car here (the Camry), the more I realize how much more relaxed I am with the new features, especially the back up camera. A couple of years ago, I was in a parking lot and backing out when I hit a woman. Well, I hit the woman because she was going too fast and driving in the wrong lane, and in spite of her yelling at me and her protests to the contrary, I had photos showing her in the wrong lane, and she was found at fault. But if I had had a back up cam, that accident never would have happened. The safety feature would have warned me, I would have stopped, and it would have been an uneventful day. Now, sometimes I feel afraid of my own shadow because of that happening. For peace of mind, it'll be so worth it.
I vote for the new car, if you think you'll have to start pumping money into your current car it is best to just go new. I am a Chevy girl myself but I have heard a lot of good things about Toyotas and the last rental we had was a Camry as well it was really nice. It would be tempting to look into if I needed a new car.
And that cup holder thing is really important, and I'm not being sarcastic either. I have a 2008 Equinox and I really love the car except the cup holder situation. There are really awkward to get to and if someone else is in the car it is even more so. I remember getting a survey within the first year of owning my car and I complained a lot about the placement of the cup holders. Fast forward a couple years, I was looking inside of one on display at Epcot and lo and behold the cup holders in the new one were in a much better location! I don't think it was a result of just my complaints, but I think they must have had many complaints.
ajrwdwgirl
Premium Member
Up here we have nut jobs doing polar plunges in the coldest and snowiest times of the year. Why? Just Why?
Hubs has did the Polar Plunge around here a couple years ago. Around here it is a fun raiser event for the Special Olympics. He was on a team with a church member who has a son with severe special needs. Their team raised about $3500 for the fund raiser. He couldn't be on the team last year because of his pneumonia and I won't let him this year because of his ankle (even though it should be well beyond healed). I just don't like the idea of him jumping into freezing water.
ajrwdwgirl
Premium Member
Oy. I never thought of that. It is your job this year.
Luckily I really don't mind shoveling. It is good exercise and as long as the snow isn't super wet it isn't too taxing. Our driveway is fairly short only has long as about 2 cars and a little wider than one car width. If he had broken his ankle in summer and I would have had to mow lawn I would not have been okay. I don't like mowing lawn.
ajrwdwgirl
Premium Member
ajrwdwgirl
Premium Member
I forgot to share my 7th Beer of Christmas yesterday. I went international yesterday with a Belgium beer. It was pretty good and it had a surprising sweetness to it.
