Guest guest Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Vatican on Easter Sunday? Yep, that's cool! How nice you are able to do this while you all can go. Well, cept Maddie. Hey, I'm leaving Seth to take girls to Disney again and I don't feel bad about it at all. Such a bad Mom I am! LOL Seth wouldn't enjoy it, hence, neither would the rest of us. Don't feel bad Donna.....to have such a spontaneous, loving husband and the chance to do this with all the other kids is wonderful. Go and enjoy and I'm sure you feel that Maddie will be in very good hands while you are gone. Sailing or flying? Gail :-) Hey Gang, Well, we are going to Italy on the 10th of April. Coming home on the 19th. The kids are SO excited!!!! It's spur of the moment....sometimes it's not great being married to Mr. Spontaneous, especially when you have five kids, two of whom need passports...LOL Anyway, we just realized that our third is going off to college and it's now or never. So we'll be in Vatican City on Easter Sunday...cool, eh? We're planning on Rome and Venice with maybe a short visit to Florence. The BAD part is Maddie is staying home. There's no way she can do this. I am REALLY having a difficult time...but what can I do. It's a long time to be away from her....it's hard. I've arranged for Jen, the teacher at her school, to watch her. Maddie LOVES Jen and Jen adores her, so I feel good about that part. And Duff's sisters will be around to give Jen and Suzanne (her friend) Maddie breaks. No doubt she'll give me the cold shoulder for quite some time when I get back....;-) Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 In a message dated 4/1/2004 3:14:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, smilinggail@... writes: Seth wouldn't enjoy it, hence, neither would the rest of us. Don't feel bad Donna.....to have such a spontaneous, loving husband and the chance to do this with all the other kids is wonderful. Go and enjoy and I'm sure you feel that Maddie will be in very good hands while you are gone. Sailing or flying? Oh, flying for sure. And you're right...it would only be torture for Maddie, Gail. She is home from school today (throwing up yesterday...better today, but had me and Duff up til 2:00) so we had to bring her down to the customs house with us to get passports for Duff, n and Allie (Duff's went through the washer...LOL). She got FRISKED!!!!! LOLOLOL Allie says, " Mom, what? Do they think we'd put a bomb in her pockets? " LOLOL Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Hi Donna, Have a wonderful safe trip and try to enjoy it. I'm glad Maddie will be in good hands while you're gone. Before you know it, time flies by fast and you'll be back. You'll have beautiful memories with your other kids plus w/Duff and what a better place for this sacrifice. Ok, now for my request on what I would like out there for souvenir. Want my list? Just kidding. Many hugs! Irma,15,Ds/ASD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Bob and I use our respite time for a 10 day winter hiatus. This year we went to Scotland - without children . We stayed so far up in the highlands that phones only worked intermittantly! But we were found once - to tell us the smokedetector wentoff and we didn't leave the code. Drove my children with sound issues to the whimper stage before we were finally called. What did we learn?? Leave codes even if we don't set the system before we leave. We didn't want the alarm system set but forgot (assuming we even thought about it) that the fire alarm system cannot be turned off. Our respite angel was cooking bacon and set off over an hour of 115 decibal sirens - two fire departments responded and 2 police departments. But the kids survived our absence and we certainly survived being without them!! ENJOY every minute with your big kids>> Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons. >From: duffey48@... >Reply-To: >To: >Subject: Re: Taking a Trip >Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:27:10 EST > >In a message dated 4/1/2004 3:14:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, >smilinggail@... writes: >Seth wouldn't enjoy it, hence, neither would the rest of us. Don't >feel bad Donna.....to have such a spontaneous, loving husband and the >chance >to >do this with all the other kids is wonderful. Go and enjoy and I'm sure >you >feel that Maddie will be in very good hands while you are gone. Sailing or >flying? > >Oh, flying for sure. And you're right...it would only be torture for >Maddie, Gail. She is home from school today (throwing up >yesterday...better >today, but had me and Duff up til 2:00) so we had to bring her down to the >customs >house with us to get passports for Duff, n and Allie (Duff's went >through the washer...LOL). She got FRISKED!!!!! LOLOLOL Allie says, > " Mom, >what? Do they think we'd put a bomb in her pockets? " LOLOL >Donna > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 In a message dated 4/2/2004 7:56:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, pastmidvale@... writes: leave. We didn't want the alarm system set but forgot (assuming we even thought about it) that the fire alarm system cannot be turned off. Our respite angel was cooking bacon and set off over an hour of 115 decibal sirens - two fire departments responded and 2 police departments. LOL Sara. We have the same system. I came home from church a couple weeks ago to find firemen at our house too....Duff burned something on the stovetop. Scotland? Must have been fabulous!!!! It's a lot of planning but I think once I get there, I'll relax. Thanks for the well wishes Sara. Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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