Day 6 Epcot

On the Bus again. I'm telling you I now have a totally new respect for the Bus Driver.

Epcot... is it a Golf ball? I must have missed the information thing that would have gave me that little tidbit of knowledge.

This day March 18th started the Annual Flower Festival. Which was amazing.

The boys got very cool face paintings.

Picture of the woman behind the camera.

By the time we got back to the Hotel I was spent. My foot and leg was swollen into one big cankle and the Paparazzi.. I had to fight them off.

Day 5 Hollywood Studios

Looking pretty sharp on St. Patty's Day.


While the boys road the Tower of Terror, Richard got camera happy.

We also enjoyed the most amazing Pina Coloda ever.

Hubby was just excited.

Stood in more lines and warded off the Paparazzi.

Waited very patiently to see the Lights, motors, Action stunt show. Which was Awesome.

Calob had to have his picture made on this thing mainly cause he's a boy and this is cool.

Yay for another GREAT day!

Day 4 Animal Kingdom

There was Timon, Flick, Goofy and Lilo and Stitch.

And lots of Chocolate Mickey Heads.

Jacob gave me a flower.

But then he thought he looked better wearing it.

Hubby and I got BUSTED!

Also had our own personal tour guide.

Tried to be a little creative with my new camera again.

Then I got BUSTED again.

We got a little bored standing in line to see the Lion King. That can only mean one thing...

Then I was made to promise to post the following...

Finally got to see the show. Which was awesome by the way.

Jacob loves Monkey's and his day was complete when we ran into Turk.

Day 4 was another AWESOME day!

Not so good Mother moment

I have been sitting here at work thinking abut what took place yesterday afternoon and this morning.

Maybe it was a compilation of the stress and the sleepless nights I have been having.

I truly feel utterly like a NOT so good Mother.

Richard hasn't been feeling very well the last week or so. The pain is worse and more spread out. Beginning in the lower lobe of his right lung and going deep into the groin area. The patch is barely doing it's job and he is having to take more pain medicine to get him through the day.

What does this mean? Has it spread farther? Just how bad will the scan be on the 16th? Why am I at work?

Ok so that last question I most definitely know the answer too. No worries there. It's just sometimes I feel I need to be, I want to be at home with him.

So anyway memories... it's all about making memories for the boys, for myself. So I borrowed a wheelchair and we came up with a plan.

Hubby and I thought we would surprise our two well deserving, stressed out boys that have been doing SAT and ARMT testing all week.

Surprise them with tickets to go see "Walking with the Dinosaurs" tonight and the Blue Angels Air Show tomorrow.

We thought they would be ecstatic.

Yeah not so much. They had other plans to go spend the night with their friends. And now we were infringing upon them. Inconveniencing them.

Well this morning as Jacob was complaining about how late we might get home tomorrow from the Air Show and then not wanting to go with us and rather go with his friends on Sunday.

I lost it. I stooped lower than low. I know that it was bad.

I actually told my child and the youngest one that was listening that they were being selfish. That their Daddy is not going to be here much longer and they should much rather spend time with him cause one day here sooner than we would like he's gonna be gone, but their friends... oh yes their friends would still be here to go and do and spend the night with.

I feel terrible and it's all I can think about.

As I know that this is hard on all of us and sometimes we just need to be with friends to just be away from it all. In the comfort of others.

Tonight I will apologize to my wonderful boys and hug them and love them because this life we're living... is a hard one.

I will also make sure that we are home early enough tomorrow so that they can go and be with their friends for a fun filled night of video games and junk food.

Thanks to all of our awesome friends and family that are there to help us along the way and to provide the breaks in our reality.

Days 1, 2 & 3

Well our first day got off to a rough start. It was raining and yucky and Jacob woke up throwing up. But nothing was gonna stand in the way of our trip. So after I fussed to Mother nature, I gave the poor baby some nausea medicine and a small bathroom garbage can lined with an unbelievable amount of plastic grocery sacks. Ya know had to protect the rental car.

So we were off.

There was lots of reading on the boys parts and even more driving on ours.

We made it to Valdosta Georgia, ate at Waffle House and found a Hotel for a good nights sleep.

Got up the next morning grabbed breakfast at the local Burger King drive-thru, got Happy Birthday sung to me and we were on the road again. We arrived at Richard's Aunt M's mid-afternoon.

While killing some time and trying to get the numbness out of my hiney I walked around and got a little creative.
We visited and talked and as the sun set the rest of the family started arriving. Serving dishes full of yummy food arrived with them.

After everyone had their belly's full the lights went out and everyone began singing and there was a cake with candles and it was beautiful. I cried and loved on my hubby.

Oh it was more than wonderful to have this time with Richard's family. It was very special to all of us and as the night went on I found myself just taking it all in. I had to excuse myself several times when things were said to me that touched my heart beyond explanation. I just got confirmation that Richard is as wonderful as I have always known him to be.

Before the night was over we took lots of family pictures.

Shortly there after the crowd thinned out and we all went to bed.

The next morning we got up took more pictures.

Then off we went to meet some Family we have never had the pleasure of meeting before for Brunch.

Took even more creative pictures along the way.

Once we arrived at Aunt G's house it was like we have known them forever.

Brunch was just as wonderful as the company.

Once we finished up there it was off to check into the Hotel. Everything was all set for us. It was everything we hoped it would be and everyone was so nice. The scooter people arrived right on time to deliver Richard's scooter.

So as we were on our way to catch the shuttle we got to see something amazing. The Space Shuttle lifting off and into Space. It was beyond awesome.

So after that excitement we took advantage of the extra magic hours at the Magic Kingdom and stayed their till 2 in the morning.

The Castle at night is a little spooky.

We checked in on Buzz Lightyear and the gang, Spun in some teacups and hung out with a pretty cool Indian.

Shortly after all this excitement some guy that was pulling a wagon and too busy talking on a cell phone, hit Jacob in the shin with the corner of the wagon. He didn't even stop and say sorry. So Jacob was crying and I stopped to check his leg out and make sure he wasn't bleeding when all of a sudden I felt this sharp shooting pain in the back of my leg.

Richard ran all up on my leg and the back of my heel with his Scooter. Causing it too bleed and my ankle and calf to swell up something terrible. We continued on in the Magic Kingdom but I wasn't in any mood to take pictures after that I was too busy limping along. Poor Richard felt so bad he must have apologized 100 times.

Soon it was 2 AM and time to head back to the Hotel for a wonderful night's sleep and to prepare for Day 4.