A Few Things…

If you can dream it, you can do it. ~Walt Disney

First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who commented yesterday. Reading all of your comments left me so emotional that I couldn’t respond. I was really touched by what each and every one of you had to say.

Thank you for sharing lessons and ideas. I think one of the things I’m going to do is take a lot of the lessons and make a scrap book with them. I’m not terribly crafty however I know I can come up with something wonderful.

When the time is right I will make some videos for the girls however in the meantime it’s time to use the video camera I purchased a few years ago. It’s hardly ever been used. I want them to have as many memories on video as possible. Of course you realize this may subject you to some more videos much like Look Ma, I Got A Tiara but in much better quality.

Now I must clear up any confusion there might have been over an off-handed comment I made on Sunday in my Disney Update post. At the end of the post I made mention about doing my taxes and the hope that I wouldn’t have to use your donation money to pay for anything.

Please let me clarify…I procrastinated in preparing my federal taxes this year and every year I’m always afraid I’ll owe money. Every year I go through this and every year we get a refund no matter how small it may be. Every year the refund is just enough to cover our real estate tax bill and we get it just in time to pay that bill. So, while other people are able to use that money for other things, my husband and I use our federal tax refund to pay our real estate taxes. We have done this every year for the past 11 years.

In fact the Economic Stimulus check we will receive along with lots of other Americans will go towards the first real estate tax bill we received last month. We will pay the late penalty and then pay the tax. I wonder how many other people will use that check for bills as well.

The last thing I want to talk about was my doctor’s appointment with the medical oncologist yesterday. Actually, I’ll save that for tomorrow’s post because that will take a post in itself to explain the details. Plus, I haven’t fully wrapped my mind around it…it’s that mind blowing.

Basically, I need to get my ass in gear and start treatment as soon as possible which means my family has to go to Disney yesterday. My husband and I are extremely grateful for all you have done to make it possible for us to take our daughters on that trip, a trip we’ve been dreaming for over three years.

We understand that some people were getting together to donate flyer miles and other things but I have an aggressive cancer that needs treatment as soon as possible.

At risk of making some people angry my husband and I decided to do what’s best for our family, our daughters and for my health and we had to plan our trip to Disney accordingly. We were able to plan the trip exactly how we envisioned it at a very reasonable price.

See, we wanted to give our two daughters the entire Disney experience where they could stay at a Disney resort, you know where everything is Disney. That’s part of the magic. We wanted to give them a week away from the harsh reality of what they’ve been through for the past four years, after all they are ages eight and 11.

So, I hope that people will understand the decision that Dude and I had to make. I also hope they will understand what we wanted our daughters to have in taking them to Disney.

If, God forbid, this is the last vacation our family gets to take together then I want it to be the most memorable vacation ever…

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