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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonorailMegan" data-source="post: 9399609" data-attributes="member: 78081">I’m wordy, y’all. Sorry not sorry!  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤪" title="Zany face    :zany_face:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f92a.png" data-shortname=":zany_face:" />Plan A: Kumbaya at the beach! But first, Sidestory: The Dumpster Fire!!(Disclaimer: Absolutely no shame in anyone else’s life choices! Everyone’s life path is beautiful and amazing in its own way!)If there is bad luck to be had, Abbie has had it. How many people have you met that have broken their back in a sledding accident at 13 *and* also had every pregnancy complication known to man? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!    :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" /> To make matters worse, If there is a decision to be made, and the choices are either an optimal, rational choice OR the worst choice humanly possible, Abbie has literally always chosen the latter. And then usually tried to lie her way out of it. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/banghead.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head    :banghead:" data-shortname=":banghead:" />And trust me, she has made some really, really bad decisions.TLDR: she’s let her life choices place a burden on my in-laws, who are also total enablers. Oh and did I mention that Abbie and my in-laws’ favorite past time is bickering? <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😖" title="Confounded face    :confounded:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f616.png" data-shortname=":confounded:" /> This has all led to Abbie and I not being all that close and things being super hit or miss between my mother in law and I. DH says my MIL has some sort of misplaced feelings of angst wishing that Abbie could be less dumpster fire-y like me and Abbie’s choices preventing her from being as active of a MIL and grandmother with me and Harrison. So, from here on out we shall refer to Abbie as SILDF (sister in law dumpster fire) [ATTACH=full]492069[/ATTACH]Back on track - so my MIL *loves* the beach, which is ironic because my husband is the worst person to take a beach vacation with, because sitting still is not his thing. So back in the summer of 2019 when my BIL (Jake who we love! Yay Jake!) was assigned to his new territory for work and set to move to Jacksonville, Florida in the spring of 2020, she was PUMPED.She wanted us all to be together, DH, me, Harrison, Jake, my FIL, my SILDF, my niece, my niece’s father, and her. She was planning that we all rent out a house on the beach near JAX. Whoohoo! I had a little trepidation about sharing a space with that many people but the houses we were looking at had plenty of space to spread out and were reasonably affordable.All set right? WRONG.Enter Plan B:MIL decided the moment that my BIL bought a 3 bedroom condo that's a 20 minutes drive from the beach, that we didn’t need to rent a house and instead could all pack in there like sardines. 9 people in 1200 sq. ft. (I'm from the Midwest...I'm used to SPACE)NOWHERE NEAR THE BEACH.With the bickering trio.YIKES.I think James could really sense my hesitation now, and he very conveniently had a great idea that we should kick off the trip with our then un-born son in WDW before meeting up with the rest of the fam in JAX and so HECK YES COMPROMISE we booked as follows:Monday, August 31st - Fly into MCO and check into AKL- Kidani Villas renting DVC points “to try out the DVC thing and see if we like it” (He is pouring the bribery honey on THICK this time!)Tuesday, September 1st - MK and Baby’s 1st HaircutWednesday, September 2nd - AKThursday, September 3rd - EPCOT, allllll the F&W Festival goodnessFriday, September 4th - HS and lovely Jake is going to drive over after work from JAX to spend the night, do the park with us the next daySaturday, September 5th - A fun day with Uncle Jake - MK, Breakfast at Crystal Palace, and then driving back to JAX to continue the vacation fun for 6 more days with the rest of the family.Friday, September 11th - fly back home to Indy from JAXLOVE IT!! EVERYONE IS HAPPY!!<img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/njS7fzNbKflZu/giphy.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />UP NEXT: THAT DARN CORONAVIRUS AND LITERAL BROKEN HEARTS</blockquote>

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