The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[MySmallWorldof4]

I finally have all Christmas put away, that means the weather should get warmer, right?

We put ours away 2 weeks ago and the outside lights last Friday. Hasn't helped, but maybe the problem is all those procrastinators that still have yet to put away their Christmas paraphernalia.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

@donaldtoo TWC keeps showing all the bad weather in your neck of the woods. Stay safe!

 

[Songbird76]

Thankfully Mrs F is as nuts as i am. That said we are seriously considering putting off WDW until around 2022 and doing a dcl Europe trip in 2019.

Well, if we wait until 2019, then it's been 3 years since our last trip...I mean, we had 6 years in between our first two trips, but now that we got a bit from the estate, I'd like to go sooner and have a really NICE trip. Otherwise we'd wait longer...and now that dad is gone, I don't feel obligated to split the trip between Florida and Wyoming. My brother has yet to visit me, other than the trip I paid for when he came for Christmas the month after I moved here. So if it isn't a priority for him to see me, then I don't feel like I have to necessarily be the only one to make the effort....I can finally just do what I want to do and go where I want to go without feeling guilty. Or so I thought. And honestly, I think DH loved our Honeymoon in Disney, so I don't think it's that he doesn't like Disney....it's just that he doesn't like Disney with DS.

Harrowing drive into the office today. Even the large highways are completely slushy. Two accidents happened in front of me and I had to go off roading to get around them. The side streets are absolutely terrible, too.

I'm ready for Elsa to bring back summer, now....

Please stay safe!! Will they have the plows out by the time you go home?

I hope if turns on for you and your morning recovers!!



My husband could be happy never going again. So the next trip we take is going to be a mommy daughter trip. It sounds to me, with your husband the way he is right now and your son the way he is, that you might want to consider a mommy daughter trip! DH and son can do a father son trip wherever they want, and you guys could go enjoy everything you love about Disney.

Well, I mentioned that to DH. I said "Maybe I'll just have to save the Poly for a Mother daughter trip or something" and he said "Or something." Which means he's not thinking I should stay at the Poly at ALL, ever...he considers it a waste. I also thought about a SPLIT stay, but to use the deals here, you have to get the entire package, so then I would have to buy 2 sets of tickets, which would be a waste. Or stay the 2 weeks at a lesser resort, and then do just an overnight or 2 nights at the Poly....I don't know. I also want to go to Universal now that the kids are also Harry Potter fans and we can all enjoy it. The thing is, I can't do a mommy daughter trip right now because DS really wants to go too. It wouldn't be fair to leave him out because DH doesn't want to go. So I'd have to do a mommy and children trip, but then DD and I wouldn't get to do ANYTHING. At least when DH and I are both there, we can split up and take turns taking DS while the others do their thing. But that's what DH doesn't want to do. DD really does want to do a Mother daughter trip, and I so want to do that sometime, but DS wouldn't understand why he doesn't get to go. I'm really hoping that as he gets older, he'll go on more things and be a bit more independent, and I'm hoping that he will learn to deal with some of the situations, so that don't always have to sit out with him. Like....right now, he just expects that we're going to do what he wants to do and ONLY what he wants to do. He doesn't want to wait while we all go on Carrots of the Pirabbean, for example. He doesn't want to go on that ride, but he also doesn't want to wait alone while we do it. And he doesn't want to go on a ride by himself that WE don't necessarily want to do. Chronologically, he just turned 10, but his emotional age is probably closer to 6 or 7. And having autism, he has a hard time with empathy and understanding how other people feel. So he doesn't get, just as it's not fun for him to sit and wait while we all go on a ride together, it's not fun for US to go on a ride we don't want to and miss out on what we DO want to do. He just expects us to keep skipping our own things to keep him entertained, and my DH has no patience with it....he gets frustrated, blows up, and wants to just take DS back to the resort rather than try to explain to him how it makes us feel. So he gives up and either does what DS wants, or takes him for a time out. What he really needs to do is make DS get used to not always getting his way. Sure...we'll go on Buzz with you again...AFTER we do the Haunted Mansion, because we haven't gotten to do that yet. You're welcome to join us, or to sit out. Your choice, but that's what we're doing. The problem is really that DH can't handle the meltdowns, so he creates the situation himself of having to skip things.

 

[DryerLintFan]

Well, if we wait until 2019, then it's been 3 years since our last trip...I mean, we had 6 years in between our first two trips, but now that we got a bit from the estate, I'd like to go sooner and have a really NICE trip. Otherwise we'd wait longer...and now that dad is gone, I don't feel obligated to split the trip between Florida and Wyoming. My brother has yet to visit me, other than the trip I paid for when he came for Christmas the month after I moved here. So if it isn't a priority for him to see me, then I don't feel like I have to necessarily be the only one to make the effort....I can finally just do what I want to do and go where I want to go without feeling guilty. Or so I thought. And honestly, I think DH loved our Honeymoon in Disney, so I don't think it's that he doesn't like Disney....it's just that he doesn't like Disney with DS.

Please stay safe!! Will they have the plows out by the time you go home?

Well, I mentioned that to DH. I said "Maybe I'll just have to save the Poly for a Mother daughter trip or something" and he said "Or something." Which means he's not thinking I should stay at the Poly at ALL, ever...he considers it a waste. I also thought about a SPLIT stay, but to use the deals here, you have to get the entire package, so then I would have to buy 2 sets of tickets, which would be a waste. Or stay the 2 weeks at a lesser resort, and then do just an overnight or 2 nights at the Poly....I don't know. I also want to go to Universal now that the kids are also Harry Potter fans and we can all enjoy it. The thing is, I can't do a mommy daughter trip right now because DS really wants to go too. It wouldn't be fair to leave him out because DH doesn't want to go. So I'd have to do a mommy and children trip, but then DD and I wouldn't get to do ANYTHING. At least when DH and I are both there, we can split up and take turns taking DS while the others do their thing. But that's what DH doesn't want to do. DD really does want to do a Mother daughter trip, and I so want to do that sometime, but DS wouldn't understand why he doesn't get to go. I'm really hoping that as he gets older, he'll go on more things and be a bit more independent, and I'm hoping that he will learn to deal with some of the situations, so that don't always have to sit out with him. Like....right now, he just expects that we're going to do what he wants to do and ONLY what he wants to do. He doesn't want to wait while we all go on Carrots of the Pirabbean, for example. He doesn't want to go on that ride, but he also doesn't want to wait alone while we do it. And he doesn't want to go on a ride by himself that WE don't necessarily want to do. Chronologically, he just turned 10, but his emotional age is probably closer to 6 or 7. And having autism, he has a hard time with empathy and understanding how other people feel. So he doesn't get, just as it's not fun for him to sit and wait while we all go on a ride together, it's not fun for US to go on a ride we don't want to and miss out on what we DO want to do. He just expects us to keep skipping our own things to keep him entertained, and my DH has no patience with it....he gets frustrated, blows up, and wants to just take DS back to the resort rather than try to explain to him how it makes us feel. So he gives up and either does what DS wants, or takes him for a time out. What he really needs to do is make DS get used to not always getting his way. Sure...we'll go on Buzz with you again...AFTER we do the Haunted Mansion, because we haven't gotten to do that yet. You're welcome to join us, or to sit out. Your choice, but that's what we're doing. The problem is really that DH can't handle the meltdowns, so he creates the situation himself of having to skip things.

Yes I'm really hoping they'll plow by the time I need to go home.


About your trip..... Did you know Caribbean Beach Resort went through a remodel that makes it basically a lite version of Poly? It looks like Poly Jr. The buses, from what I can gather, can be terrible, but the resort is beautiful, the pool is great, and the rooms have that Poly touch. Might be worth looking into, as it's about 1/3 the price for Poly.

I think that parenting style can be really tough. It's fair and reasonable to say "we'll do your ride again later, but first we're going to do one I like, and get that treat your sister likes, and then meet that character your dad likes. After all that, it will be your turn again". Respecting other people like that and taking turns will set him up for success when he's an adult and has a job, as well. It cannot always be my way or the highway.

Either way, I think you'd get a lot more enjoyment doing a mommy daughter trip AND you can save a lot of money at CBR.

 

[donaldtoo]

@donaldtoo TWC keeps showing all the bad weather in your neck of the woods. Stay safe!

Thanks, MOXO!
I'm already here at the office, actually. Pretty much everything seems to be closed, though. A couple of the bridges were a bit dicey, but, other than that, not too bad, and I've not seen any precip falling since I got up just before 6:30a. Traffic was a breeze...!
Other than the cars being covered with ice and having to be thawed out, pretty much a non-event for us...

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Has anyone done the Google thing that matches your face with art?

 

[Songbird76]

Well I had to call repair services. I was able to get an appointment at least for tomorrow. I hope it is not expensive and I hope he doesn't say it is broken completely. An expensive appliance that only lasts for 13 months. I should have bought the extended warranty. Who would think though that something so costly would break just over a year? I need to become less naive I think.

I'm with you! My washing machine broke a few years ago, and we went and bought a new one....the cheapest one they had from a brand we knew. It lasted just shy of the 2 year warranty, but DH took 3 weeks to call the repairman, and when he was finally available, he said it would cost more to fix it than it was worth, and by that time it had been like...2 years and a week or something thing. So they came and looked at it, and we got it fixed for like 250 euros....it was only 400 new. When the dryer broke, I told Hubby we weren't buying a cheapy this time. Our regular repairman asked who the heck had sold us the washing machine....it was a model that was way too small and light-weight for a family of 4 and he never would have let us buy one like that if he were the seller. That model was for like...bachelors who only do one or 2 loads a week, not a family doing laundry every day. So with the dryer, I shopped around and got a decent one. I hadn't realized there was a difference...I just kind of figured an appliance was an appliance. I guess I was wrong. I hope your oven isn't a total loss....but really, what kind of company doesn't give at LEAST a 2 year warranty from the sale? It's just over a year old and already broken and no warranty? That sounds like a shoddy company!

 

[donaldtoo]

Ooops...!
May have spoken too soon...sleet mixed with snow currently and for a while now. May be leaving at noon...

 

[Songbird76]

I checked the breaker and reset it just to see earlier. The error code came back. The troubleshooter said when that code shows up there is an internal problem.

On your Disney problem, oh brother, that is annoying to say the least. What is crazy is how you know when kids have vacation 4 years out. We only find out the year of. If it was me, I would just wait a couple of days to see when he is in a better mood. Maybe it was an off day. I would say to wait until 2020 also. 2021 with the 50th anniversary will probably be crazy. Do you need to book out that many years in advance? I usually do 6-9 months. DS will be older and his behaviors may change in terms of rides. He seems to be doing so much better at school now, so maybe you will see other behavioral changes? It is possible. Good luck. I definitely feel your aggravation as I am dealing with annoying things as well. Time to practice some calming breathing.

Ugh!! That would make me so mad....you pay so much for an appliance and then it barely lasts a year....that shouldn't even be legal! There should be a minimum warranty on stuff like that to keep companies from selling stuff that will need to be replaced so soon!
As for the trip, yes, that's what I'm hoping....that he'll get better. And no, I don't have to plan so far in advance really, but coming from here, there's a lot more planning to do. And I have to wait until they have the right deal, but I need to have a plan before the deal comes along, so I can just book it as soon as I see it. The reason we know our vacation dates is because it's a rotating pattern. It's such a small country, there are 3 zones. Every school in a zone has the same vacation dates. But the zones are staggered. So, I think it's like...2 years early, one year middle, 2 years late, one year middle, 2 years early, etc...and that's for all the vacations except Christmas. So like....my nephew is in different zone, so his vacation is always a week ahead of ours, or a week after ours, depending on where they are in the pattern. And the vacations are always the same length. It always goes by weeks....we end on a Friday and start on a Monday....always. So they can look up the vacation dates for 10 years in advance if they want to....it always follows the same pattern.

No snow here

Sshhhhhhh!! Don't say that out loud. Do you WANT to be stuck in your cage until next Christmas?? There are some things we say out loud and some things we are only allowed to think. This is one of the latter.

Has anyone done the Google thing that matches your face with art?

I have not heard of it...is that a service you pay for? Or is it free?

 

[Songbird76]

Yes I'm really hoping they'll plow by the time I need to go home.


About your trip..... Did you know Caribbean Beach Resort went through a remodel that makes it basically a lite version of Poly? It looks like Poly Jr. The buses, from what I can gather, can be terrible, but the resort is beautiful, the pool is great, and the rooms have that Poly touch. Might be worth looking into, as it's about 1/3 the price for Poly.

I think that parenting style can be really tough. It's fair and reasonable to say "we'll do your ride again later, but first we're going to do one I like, and get that treat your sister likes, and then meet that character your dad likes. After all that, it will be your turn again". Respecting other people like that and taking turns will set him up for success when he's an adult and has a job, as well. It cannot always be my way or the highway.

Either way, I think you'd get a lot more enjoyment doing a mommy daughter trip AND you can save a lot of money at CBR.

Yeah, we stayed at the Caribbean Beach in 2016, and it is really nice, BUT there are a few things I really didn't like. It's REALLY spread out, so while we were close-ISH to the bus stop, it was a hike to get to the main building for things like...filling our mugs. And there were no elevators....we were on an upper floor, and lugging big huge suitcases up and down those stairs was murder. And there was no way to pack lighter for an international trip....we were in the US for 5 weeks, 2 of them in Orlando. But we had to pack enough clothing for at least a week so I didn't constantly have to find somewhere to do laundry. And when I DID have to do laundry, I also had to lug the suitcases to the laundry facilities and back. And I guess it's probably because it's the cheapest of the moderates, it's also the farthest away from the parks, and I don't know what was up, but it seemed like fewer buses went to CBR...we would stand there and wait and wait and wait, and we'd see 3 buses for Coronado Springs go by before one for CBR would come. The Poly is just my dream resort. It's not that I want to stay there all the time, but once in my life, I'd like to. So I guess that's just something I'll save for when DD is an adult and we can do a mother/daughter trip. She wants to stay there as much as I do, and if hubby doesn't care, then it's kind of wasted on him. The thing is, with the deal I got last time, the dining plan came with the package if you stayed at least 5 nights, BUT, it didn't come with the values resort stays, only moderate and deluxe, and the moderates only offered the quick service dining. We paid to upgrade to the regular dining package, because no way can I do fast food for 2 weeks. The deluxe comes with the regular dining package. When you are talking 4 people for 10 days, that's a HUGE amount of money. We stayed in the resort for 10 days and then stayed with a friend for a few days in Kissimmee, but we won't be doing that ever again, so this time will be resort only...and the tickets are 2 week tickets, so then we might as well stay for the full 2 weeks. I guess we'll just have to wait until the deal shows up and then price out several. I wouldn't mind Wilderness Lodge...Animal Kingdom looks amazing with the theming, but it's so FAR from everything but AK, which we aren't fans of. But I'd like to do a deluxe and get the regular dining plan, if we can. We'll see how it works out if I can convince DH to go again. Maybe he'll be more willing if he knows how much the kids want to go.
Either way, DS needs to learn that he can't always have his way, and DH needs to learn to be patient. I honestly think having the diagnosis helps, though...when we were talking with the new school before DS started there and they were explaining their approach and WHY they do things the way they do, DH said he felt SOOOO bad about the way he handled certain situations because he would just get so angry and start yelling when DS really couldn't help it. Like...we were at a restaurant with the whole family, and my nephew is a little...jerk. He does things specifically to upset DS....like, visibly cheating at a board game, or lying to him about "Oma and opa gave me 5 euros, but you only get 1 euro" when we know they didn't give him 5....but DS doesn't like inequality...he gets very upset when he sees someone being favored over him. So he knows that DS hates it when people interrupt him. DS was trying to talk and my nephew kept cutting him off and DS asked him to please stop, and he didn't, so DS started shouting at him, and DH didn't even listen to find out why he was shouting, but started yelling at him, which just made it worse, and then he grabbed DS by the ear and dragged him out of the restaurant because DS didn't want to walk out by himself because he wanted DH to LISTEN to him and handle the situation with my nephew. I came back from the bathroom and everyone is grabbing their coats and I was told we were leaving, DH had DS out in the car and we were going home. Once I got the whole story, it was clear to me that DH totally over-reacted and was more worried about DS causing a scene than about WHY it happened and DS hadn't really done anything wrong...it was because of my Nephew, who got to go home scott free, laughing about how he got my son in trouble. And I made sure to tell DH never to grab DS by the ear again because if your goal is to make him stop screaming, hurting him isn't going to help and it was just humiliating and mean. He agreed he didn't handle it well, but he just has NO patience for the blow ups and doesn't know what to do. This is why I handle 95% of the blow-ups. It was just really bad luck that I was in the bathroom when it happened. So DH needs to learn to calm down and listen instead of getting so angry immediately, and DS needs to learn not to react, and he needs to learn to cope when things don't go his way. That will solve 90% of our Disney woes right there. But that's why it doesn't matter whether it's Disney or anywhere else....it's the same story wherever we go. DS gets upset about something, DH completely blows a gasket and starts screaming at him and announces we're done, we're leaving, and the fun is over. What it is is that he needs a time out himself and he just says "Let's go". He needs to learn to take a breather and then come back when he's calm. If he could do that, I think he'd have SO much more fun wherever we were. It's just that Disney trips tend to be long trips...it's not just a day at an amusement park, or a few hours at a restaurant, etc. And he works during the week, so he's not used to dealing with meltdowns every day like I am, so he's more easily frustrated by them, and can't deal with it daily for a 2 week period.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

I'm with you! My washing machine broke a few years ago, and we went and bought a new one....the cheapest one they had from a brand we knew. It lasted just shy of the 2 year warranty, but DH took 3 weeks to call the repairman, and when he was finally available, he said it would cost more to fix it than it was worth, and by that time it had been like...2 years and a week or something thing. So they came and looked at it, and we got it fixed for like 250 euros....it was only 400 new. When the dryer broke, I told Hubby we weren't buying a cheapy this time. Our regular repairman asked who the heck had sold us the washing machine....it was a model that was way too small and light-weight for a family of 4 and he never would have let us buy one like that if he were the seller. That model was for like...bachelors who only do one or 2 loads a week, not a family doing laundry every day. So with the dryer, I shopped around and got a decent one. I hadn't realized there was a difference...I just kind of figured an appliance was an appliance. I guess I was wrong. I hope your oven isn't a total loss....but really, what kind of company doesn't give at LEAST a 2 year warranty from the sale? It's just over a year old and already broken and no warranty? That sounds like a shoddy company!

It is a GE(general electric). Not cheap when not on sale. Got it at Lowes during their appliance sale. I think most companies just give a 1 year nowadays unless you buy the extended warranty.

 

[Figgy1]

This is not a good day so far. Went to turn on our wall oven that is 13 months old and got an error code! Very unhappy right now. I turned off the power to it and will try it again in 30 minutes. If not I have to call GE. I use the darn thing everyday.

Did you look up the error code? I went into panic mode when that happened to my almost new dishwasher and it turned out that I needed to just clean a filter. Good luck.

 

[Figgy1]

Harrowing drive into the office today. Even the large highways are completely slushy. Two accidents happened in front of me and I had to go off roading to get around them. The side streets are absolutely terrible, too.

I'm ready for Elsa to bring back summer, now....

Good luck getting home today. Everybody is home with me today

 

[Figgy1]

No snow here

Would you like ours. We're now expected to get 8 inches and it won't stop until tomorrow.

 

[Figgy1]

Ooops...!
May have spoken too soon...sleet mixed with snow currently and for a while now. May be leaving at noon...

Stay safe and be careful going home

 

[Figgy1]

It is a GE(general electric). Not cheap when not on sale. Got it at Lowes during their appliance sale. I think most companies just give a 1 year nowadays unless you buy the extended warranty.

Sympathy like

 

[Cesar R M]

Ok....I need to vent. I don't know what to do. I've been talking about planning our next trip to Disney and first thing was when do we want to go. On the one hand, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge is supposed to open in 2019. My kids are in the region with late vacation in 2019 and 2020, which means they don't go back to school until September...so it might be cheaper travel in those years if we go closer to the end of the vacation....good time to go. BUT, DS, as much as he loves Star Wars, wouldn't do any of the SW stuff in DLP because he was scared...I don't know if he'll be better about that in a year and a half. But even if he is, if it opens on time, it's going to be PACKED. So then I thought...maybe we should wait until 2020, because by then the hype has died down and wait times will be more "normal". BUT, then I remembered ROL got pushed back by more than a year....FEA was pushed back by months...and those were MUCH smaller scale projects....will SW:GE even be open in 2019? If not, then I'd rather go in 2019 and go back in a few years again when the hype has died down and DS is older. So I was debating this and hubby made some comment about waiting until 2022. WHAT??? I said no, because then the kids have EARLY vacation, which means they get out in the 2nd week of July...the height of tourist season and the most expensive travel time. He shrugged and the subject was dropped. So then last night, I asked him what he thought about staying at the Poly for our next trip. It's more expensive, but we did get a bit of money from the sale of the cattle...it would be enough for that. He says "Well....is it really that much better? We've paid for extra things before and it wasn't worth it." He's referring to DLP, paying for the Montana room, which looked old and run down, only had one outlet besides the one in the bathroom, and they put us in the room that was the farthest from EVERYTHING, when we had booked the Montana room specifically to be CLOSER to everything. So, I get that, but hi...that was DLP....a completely different ball game from WDW. Then he says "Look, I know you LOVE Disney, so we'll probably go again," (PROBABLY???) "but it's really not as important to me and I get stuck with DS and don't get to have as much fun. And I get it....you and DD mostly like the same things, so it makes sense that you girls stick together, but then I am stuck with him doing the same 2 rides over and over or sitting at the resort, and I get one morning to do my thing and that's it." Again, he's referring to DLP when DS only wanted to do Buzz Lightyear, and Autopia, or play games on the phone/computer. BUT, the thing is, we were only there for 2 full days and 2 partial days....and of those, DH got one full morning to himself from park opening until lunch time, PLUS another morning after we did Ratattouille, AND he got an afternoon on his own on the last day, and then he also had a morning where I took DS and he took DD....they did BTMRR, Indiana Jones coaster, Carrots of the Pirabbean....all the things he couldn't do with DS. And there was one more afternoon where DD and I were going to do stuff and had bad luck so we went back to the resort to stay with DS so DH could go back into the park and have fun...he chose to take a nap instead. So I had DS half the time, and he got a LOT of time by himself to do the things the kids wouldn't do. And that's just at DLP. When we went to WDW, we did one ride together at Blizzard Beach, and I didn't see him for the rest of the day, because DS didn't want to be left alone, so I stayed with him and took him to all the Winter Summer Games events while DH and DD did every ride in the park together...the whole day. I took the kids while he went on EE, I took DS when DH wanted to do BTMRR, and he took DD with him....and when DS had a meltdown because he didn't want to go into the Haunted Mansion after we had stood in line for half an hour, -I- was the one who took him out and let DH and DD go on the ride, because DS wouldn't even go into the building to the parent swap area...we had to walk back out of the line the way we came and I didn't get to go on the ride. So he makes it sound like it's no fun for him because he has to kid-sit while I do all the fun stuff when that is so not fair. I made SURE he got to do every ride he wanted to do at DLP...He had HOURS to do all the thrill rides. And now that the kids are getting older, DD is doing more of the thrill rides with him. I get motion sickness, so usually I'M the one who is not going on rides. But basically he's talking about not wanting to spend money on Disney. Well where else do you want to go? We're going to have the same situation with DS no matter where we go. One of us always has to stay with him while the others do the stuff....that's just the way it is. The alternative is we just never go on vacation. And pretty much every amusement park we go to involves me sitting with DS while either DH or DH and DD do things...so I feel like, the one thing -I- enjoy, he doesn't want to do because he has to sit out with DS half the time. Well welcome to my world! So now I don't know if we're even going to get to go to Disney again, and if we do, I'll be so stressed trying to make sure HE'S having fun that -I- won't get to have fun. I know it's not fun being the one stuck while the others are off doing their own things, but I've made sure that he's not the only one doing that, and apparently he doesn't feel I do a good job of splitting it up and ensuring he has his fun time. So he only wants to do the things where HE gets to enjoy it and I'M the one sitting there bored out of my mind while everyone else has a great time. He did say once several months ago "What about like....Italy, and Greece, and all those places we wanted to go?" And I reminded him then that we couldn't really do those things with the kids....at least not with DS. DS would not have a good time walking around museums or looking at ruins, or visiting beautiful examples of architecture...we have to wait until he's older for that anyway. But then I just don't know what he WANTS to do for vacation. And I don't want to have HIM pouting the whole time like a child because he didn't get his way. So...how do I get the Disney trip the rest of us really want to do, but also ensure he isn't a grumpus the whole time and that he doesn't resent me for making him endure yet another Disney vacation? Suggestions? Any of you have spouses who are luke warm on Disney? He never said ANYTHING about not enjoying our trips until I started talking about the next trip.

Id also suggest to either go for 2020 or 2022 as well.

Remember FEA's problems? The Mine train too? Even Avatar's 2 rides..
They all had a ton of issues the first months and even a year after they opened. Constant shutdowns and huge lines. Technical issues..etc..

Galaxy's Edge s going to be probably worse.
Because It will not only get all the Disney fans going, but also Star Wars.. I will expect the nerds and neckbeards to flood the place while dressed as sith or jedi. And the demand will put a huge strain on the new attractions.

But then, 2021 will be the big Anniversary of both Epcot and Magic Kingdom right?
Things will probably escalate there as well.

 

[Cesar R M]

That is too cute with your daughter!! When my daughter is mad at someone, she mainly just looks at them like they're an idiot. like this:

Thats me!

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Would you like ours. We're now expected to get 8 inches and it won't stop until tomorrow.

Please

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Did you look up the error code? I went into panic mode when that happened to my almost new dishwasher and it turned out that I needed to just clean a filter. Good luck.

Good luck getting home today. Everybody is home with me today

Would you like ours. We're now expected to get 8 inches and it won't stop until tomorrow.

Double sympathy like.
The code is for an internal part error. I wouldn't be surprised if it is a filter issue with all the pet fur. No idea where it is anyway. The whole machine is basically closed but for some vents. I constantly sweep the floors but the stuff is inevitably everywhere. If that is the problem(a filter), I would be happy I think. Seems like a simple fix. I just don't know. Internal part error is pretty general. I have American Home Shield, but calling them would possibly have me waiting a week to have someone check it out.
Our snow is light. Whatever was on the roads is melted. At this point it is tolerable. I know schools are closing early. It is supposed to snow the rest of the day but if it remains light like this, I don't think it will be too bad. Sorry to hear about your possible 8 inches. Yuck!