Category: Our trip to Disney World

Be our Guest

Thank you…
for thinking of me
and then wondering
how you could help.
Thank you…
for doing what you did,
instead of being too busy,
or just forgetting about it.
Thank you…
For inking me
on your priority to-do list,
when you have
so many other things to do;
I am honored;
It meant a lot to me.
Thank you.

By Joanna Fuchs

 

Anyone who has read a few of my posts can probably draw the conclusion that I am not a wordsmith.  My writings are not polished but they are real and from the heart.  There are so many people who I wanted to thank. I found this and I think it fits perfectly.

From delivering meals to watching the kids, from stopping by, making a call, sending and e-mail, card, blog comment,  text or even Facebook post.  Goodies and flowers all thoughts from special people who have helped  myself and my family work our way through this experience just a bit smoother.  All appreciated!

There is one person who I have known for years who did none of these things. I know that I should not let things bother me but after oh, 25+ years of “friendship” to not warrant a few words even via text?  I am thankful for this also.  This experience has opened up a world of new friends and shown a light on those that were a bit more shallow. Life is too short to get bogged down.

Anyway, still very sore but at least the pain pills can keep up now, thankfully!  The Disney reservations continued today with the highlight being dinner at the new Be our Guest restaurant.  I am honestly not in love with the menu but that is not the point of eating there for the girls.  It is all about the dream!

And now we invite you to relax, let us pull up a 
chair as the dining room proudly presents – 
your dinner!
Be our guest! 

Why not plan a vacation

What do you do when everything thing around you is chaotic? Why plan a vacation of course!  Disney World here we come February 2013!  Something nice to look forward to and plan for. Going to stay in the resort at Animal Kingdom.  The kids will be able to overlook the Savannah before going to bed and as soon as they wake up.  How cool is that!  Hell you only live once right….this is what credit cards are for!

This is all perfect timing.  A good distraction for me now and an even better one for the girls after the surgery.  I do think things could be rough for at least the month of July and probably early August.  But the end of August will be the 6 month out mark when you can start to book all the character events.  The perfect thing that we may need by then to help us all start to turn the page from the mastectomy.

Disney really is a magical place.  We took the girls last year and were ready to go back as soon as we got home.  I was so thrilled to see the joy in my daughters faces the first time we sat for the daily parade, especially Megan.  She was so excited…we all still sing the song, “Celebrate a dream come true…”.  I never understood those folks who went every year until we finally went.

How perfect!  Even when they see mommy at her worst, I will be able to keep their heads filled with the memories of our last years Disney Trip while filling them with the excitement of the one to come.  Thanks Frank!