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Songbird76

Songbird76

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DisneyBound2017 said:
I'm so jealous of people who's children sleep in cribs for so long. We had to transition to a toddler bed at just over a year old because my monkey spawn kept climbing over and out
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Honestly, I think for us, it was better to transition early. DD was just over a year, too, because I was due with our son in 6 months and we needed the crib for him. We wanted to make sure she really had time to get use to a real bed. It went so well, and then I think DS was about 2, because we were going to Disney that summer and knew we needed him to get used to a bed because we wouldn't have cribs everywhere. We were going to my brother's wedding and staying with friends and family on the whole trip, and none of them had little ones, so we needed to transition him. Never had a problem, and I hated having to pull them out of the crib as they got bigger...the side didn't lower, so you had to pull them out over the top and man was that hard when they got heavier!! What is it that you like about the crib? I honestly couldn't wait to get them OUT of the crib!
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Gabe1 said:
Yep my Moms and my former driveway were very long and wide. Could take 30 minutes or 2 hours depending on the depth. I stayed outside almost an hour on Christmas Eve, it gave me time to regroup and time to just ignore her comments. She is a chatty cathy right now in her life. She loves to tell stories that are more private family stuff or stuff about when kids were growing up. She tells things to neighbors, friends, extended family and she embellishes and sometimes like on Christmas Eve told a story about me that was flat out not true. I really need to corner her when nobody is around and explain that she might enjoy telling stories about the kids or me, sis and her family to the entire world but it isn't fun for us especially when it isn't true. For whatever reason she is happiest in a group when she is telling a story that embarrasses someone there. We met my God Mother out at the Cheesecake Factory along with her daughter who is a couple years older than me. My Godmother and her DD have always had a rocky relationship at best. So my Mom starts telling stories about my cousins childhood and stories that she would have never known if my Mom wasn't trying to get a rise out of the two of them. My Godmother finally said why would you tell her all this??? My Mom said its true! I wanted to hide under the table. My Mom use to limit these story times to talking about my Dad in front of him or loudly so he would hear. Now that he is gone we are all fair game. This wasn't her until about 10 years ago. It is age related and boredom but it isn't pleasant. She has lost her filter and sad.

FYI my FIL had a brain bleed. They told us flat out he wouldn't make it or he'd be a veggie. He did make it and fully recovered didn't remember 2 weeks of his life or who we were for about a month but aside from a balance thing-needed a cane he fully recovered after about a year and lived 9 more years. He was a sweetie pie until the day he died.

And me I love being outdoors. I plant summer plants and flowers and at one time had 4 veggie plots, and whittled them down to two over the years. Playing with my plants was always my sanctuary. My chill time. I read at night when the misquotes came out.
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My dad mellowed with age...he used to embarrass me terribly around other people. My dad was old school...very misogynistic and chauvinistic. We took a trip once and I was about 14. I hadn't wanted to go, but my dad was very insistent. He had done the same trip the year before, and I pretended to be sick to get out of going because I would break out in a rash whenever I was around dad...stress and nerves. So my brother had gone alone and then because I had missed the trip the year before, dad decided to do the trip again so that I would be sure to make it this time. We stopped by a friend's house in South Dakota...his friend was a supreme court judge in SD, but he also had a cattle ranch, which was how he knew my dad. They had decided to do some target shooting on this guy's property, and his grandson happened to be visiting and was working in the barn, so they went to go get him to go shooting with them, and in front of the man and his wife, my father told me very sternly that I wasn't to go drooling over their grandson. That he knew girls were like that, but I wasn't to embarrass him by flirting with their 13 year old grandkid. The guy's wife's jaw just dropped...she was obviously shocked at his speech, and she felt so bad for me...I was a really quiet and shy girl. The guy promptly ducked out the door and the wife said "Why don't we go into town to run some errands!?" and she ushered me out to the car and we left before I could start crying. She was so sweet. But my dad started mellowing later...he could laugh and make jokes with me and he was never cross with my kids, which I had been really worried about. I remember getting scolded about tiny little things, always in front of other people because I had "embarrassed" him in some way in front of his friends, so I was terrified he would do that to my kids...he had very strong opinions about how children should behave and they didn't match up with how I was raising my kids. But he never said a word and he obviously loved them very much...I'm grateful that the only memories they have of him are good ones.

The brain bleed...that's exactly what my FIL has now...balance problems, poor memory. When he was still in the hospital, he didn't remember our kids...he was talking like DH was still in high school, and then kept asking both the boys what they did for work now. He couldn't remember. Scared the bejeepers out of my MIL. He has the memories back, but he still has a hard time with the short term stuff. He can't remember what the doctor says, so she has to go along to appointments, and has to tell him when to take his meds. I really hope he recovers eventually, but the doctors think he might have Parkinsons...they just don't know. But he is very very shaky in the hands and he has a cane to walk.

I might enjoy working with plants if I was at all good with them and if I didn't burn to a crisp and sneeze my fool head off, etc. It's just not a pleasant thing for me. I never have been an outdoor kid. We used to go camping and fishing, and that was alright, but I was never the kid who was outside all the time in the summer. I have a hard time with heat. My body just doesn't acclimate well and I get headaches and nausea. The cooling towel really made a difference at Disney last time, plus you're in and out of rides and such, so it's not prolonged exposure to the sun. But gardening is just not in the cards for me and it makes me feel sick and miserable. I get that other people LOVE it and find it relaxing, but it's just not me.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Gabe1 said:
Yes the TSA lines. But you can't cram that many people into a lobby area that wasn't built to accommodate that. Returning in December the lines were push and shove not single file, smashed in with backpacks and rolling carry ons. One man behind us tripped, fell and hit his head into a concrete pillar and blood was everywhere. It is an unsafe amount of people in a given area of square feet. Reason why most buildings and rooms have a maximum capacity.

Watching how long it takes to analyze a salad or sending a woman for additional screening 'cause she had a food receipt hanging out of her jean pocket 'and instructions were to take EVERYTHING out of your pockets' I tend to agree it is the TSA but it doesn't change the logic that the buildings were never built to house travelers 4 hours in advance. The paramedics couldn't get through for the bleeding man and when they did there was no room to accommodate the EMTs. MCO is just a very difficult place to board a plane now, very different than our September trip. Lots of guests use to do the parks for a half day on departure day. Disney is sure to loose out on that with many guests that fly if their ME bus leaves 4 hours in advance and you need to leave the park at least an hour before that to get back to your resort.
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That's really awful about the airport. Luckily, I've never been there when it was that bad. It does sound like they're pushing the envelope on fire code with all those people inside.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Gabe1 said:
OK I'm confused. A twin bed is 38 inches wide. A full is 48. A twin is for one person and a full at Disney is meant for 2 people but only 10 inches wider than the twin? Yep I find a full very small for 2 people. At least a queen ponies up to 60 inches. Me, I grew up with a twin bed but have had a king for 35+ years. A king is nice especially when shared with spinning, rocking snoring person.
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Can't really explain it, but there's certainly enough room for 2 adults in a full or double, whatever you call it nowadays. (I never actually measured the mattress, but it might be that the sizes could slightly differ in a hotel mattress, versus a home one.)

My parents also had a full/double mattress for many years. Queens and kings became more popular down through the years, but quite a few people still use a full/double. (Neither one of us is tall either, so maybe two people who were 6 feet each, might need a queen or king mattress.)
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Gabe1 said:
Punishment for not staying put for Christmas? Gotta love passive aggressive.
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I don't think that was it because at that time, Christmas wasn't really celebrated here the way it is in the States. In fact it's STILL not celebrated that way. WE celebrate it because I'm American and it works out better with our schedules because of birthdays and all that, but at that time, we didn't have the kids, so there was no Sinterklaas celebration and Christmas wasn't a huge affair. I'm sure it was passive aggressive, but I think it was more of a message for me..a reminder that it was not MY house and not MY room and they were in charge. That was brought up a LOT while we lived there...like "It's OUR house, so you need to do things OUR way. We'd like you to do your homework downstairs where we can keep an eye on you and correct you so you'll learn faster. You don't need to hide up there in the bedroom." or "We've decided that the dinner table will be exclusively Dutch....you are not allowed to speak English when we are at the table. This is OUR house, and we want to speak Dutch." and "We'd like you to spend your evenings with us downstairs, not up in the bedroom. If you are going to live in our house, then you need to be a part of the family. And that means sitting with us and watching TV, and we're going to watch Dutch programs because dad doesn't understand English and so he won't enjoy English programs and you'll learn Dutch faster by listening to it in the evening." (and then they shushed DH whenever he tried to translate something for me because they couldn't hear.) So I think it was more to remind us not to get too comfortable and remember whose house it was.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Gabe1 said:
If I had opened a bottle of wine I would have spit it at the screen. Too funny!!! :joyfull::joyfull::joyfull::joyfull:
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Well, I mean REALLY!! I don't even know her real name and even -I- knew she wasn't going to wait that long. What's the point if you already have DVC and annual passes?? It's one thing for people who live overseas or even just 1000 miles away who can't afford to go more than once, so they make sure they wait until they can actually do everything. But it's not like they won't go back several times in the future...and under those circumstances, why would you wait? What was the man thinking!? It's like telling the huge SW fans to wait until the movie comes out on DVD...the theater will be crowded..wouldn't you rather wait and watch it at home?:rolleyes:
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Gabe1 said:
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Nope...sorry....instantly repelling for me. Not my thing. You're talking to the girl who preferred to color the sun yellow as a kid so I didn't have to use the orange crayon. Orange and brown....big nope nopes for me.
 

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