Blogs to describe our wish trip to Disney World and our stay at Give Kids the World Village
Well....first of all, it has been quite a while since I posted. This year has been incredibly busy....Ben has been playing 'catch up' all year with school, appointments, and life in general. I also have been playing 'catch up' work wise....I started working part-time at the kids' school in September, which quickly became full time. [...]
First of all, I should let you know that we are actually home from our trip now, but as you will see by reading the blog, we were a bit too busy to give me time to blog when we were away. *Warning....these posts could get a little long!!!* Last night, Jesse and I treated [...]
We had a hard time waking the kids the next morning...they were (understandably) a little groggy. I had to attend an orientation meeting at 9:00, which I did. I discovered there that they had booked us on a bus to the Magic Kingdom at 10:15 a.m. I texted Jesse (while in my meeting) to have [...]
We woke up on day two to Jesse telling us about his fantastic turkey leg dream…sigh… He said thinking about it the next day was just as good, if not better, than the actual experience itself. The House of Hearts called us first thing to see how everything was going and asked if we needed [...]
Give Kids the World was founded in 1986 by a man (hotelier/philanthropist) Henri Landwirth. He was born Jewish in Belgium and he, his sister, and parents were sentenced to death/labour camps. He spent the years between 13-18 living in labour camps (including Auschwitz). Both his parents were killed, but he and his sister survived. I [...]
We woke up this morning and got ready. We were going to Animal Kingdom today - something that we had all been anticipating! First off, we ordered the breakfast cart to come to our villa. It was encouraged, and we thought the kids would think it was neat. A little golf cart came rumbling up [...]
As it turned out, Ben was up bright-eyed and bushy tailed! He seemed fine and wanted to go with us. As we were leaving the resort, I noticed a boy staring at Ben (something I notice - and he is beginning to notice). Then I heard the boy's mother rip into him about it - [...]
We managed to sleep in a little bit this morning. This was a day to do all of our favourite things and connect (once again) to this wonderful resort we were lucky enough to be able to stay in. Once we were awake, we left our house to find Matthew's Boundless Playground. This was a [...]
Wow! I can't believe another year has flown by. All in all - it was a fabulous year for us! Our whole family was healthy this year; we had no hospital stays, and Ben seems to have somewhat caught up from the gaps in his learning from missing so much of grade one. Here are [...]