Princess O'Rama

I little background...this whole Disney Princess thing kinda snuck up out of nowhere. Noley who is seven, was never into Princesses. I did not introduce them and she never seemed to notice or care. Last year she was invited to a big first grade girl "Princess Party" (45 kids in attendance-yikes) This party had horse drawn carriages, makeup, hair, make your crowns, yada, yada you get the picture. 200% all high caliber princess girly stuff.

So Noley comes home and tells me about the party and shares her invitation. She asks me if I will help her with her costume. Taken aback, I asked what princess costume was she thinking? She proudly proclaimed "why mom of course...I am going as Princess Leia from StarWars and I'm going to borrow Tobbers light saber!" "and you have to make my costume"

Of course being the proud mom that I am of my non traditional girl--not afraid to be herself kinda gal...I antied up to the task. Needless to say out of 45 girls at the party, my Noley was the only warrior Princess Leia. You - Go - Girl!

Now, fast forward to Disneyland...Noley the non princess girl started to get interested in the princess thing. MeiMei is crazed about them since her neighbor friend is 100% Disney princess so we had to do it....that is stand in line for a hour to meet who ever was behind the secret wall.

Noley was quietly hoping for Jasmine and MeiMei was pulling for Mulan and Belle...

We hit the Princess Holy Grail and got photos will all three. Praise to be!

Photos anyone....

I have to offer a HUGE thanks to Linjit for helping us with the yahoos at Disneyland. Without Lins, DaddyO and myself would have either: Divorced, left the children on the set of the Pirates of the Caribbean or snuck them in with the large family wearing the same turquoise color t-shirts as the yahoos were wearing. DaddyO and I still think we missed a great opportunity there....

Linjit! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU- Please come back on vacation with us!!! WE promise it will be better!!!!

- D

Anyone got the number of Nanny 911?

Help! Aliens have abducted my three sweet well behaved children and replaced them with candidates for Nanny 911. Boy, the Disney behavior appears to be continuing. The not so great behavior that is....heavens, I thought it would stop when we left Disney. The kids are at each other constantly. Poking, prodding, pulling, pushing and anything else they can think of... Yowza! I'm ready for my three sweet kids to comeback. I wish the aliens would finish their experiments and return them to their rightful owner.... ME!

I'm starting to recover myself from my Disney hangover and will be posting some photos in the next day or two when my energy and optimism returns---whichever comes first.

Happiest Place on Earth? No....don't think so....

Okay so we have only been home five hours and the kids are in bed....but I have to come clean... DISNEYLAND is NOT the happiest place on earth---not for my family. This is a myth and I painfully learned it this past week. In fact, I think I have a new name for the place.... Disneyhell or Demonland. This is a land where typically well behaved children become wild hellions afflicted bad behavior and where parents worst traits come to the forefront. It appears to bring out the worst in children and parents or at least for our family.

I liken the whole experience to childbirth....it is excruciatingly painful to go through and then when you are home and settled in you will forget the awful painful parts and remember the good things. I am waiting for this to happen. Until the good thoughts arrive, I will postpone any details or photos of the trip.

I will post when I get them uploaded and am in a better frame of mind to brief y'all on the trip.