[TexasHeathers]

I'm devastated y'all. We are cancelling our trip. We were supposed to go Thanksgiving Week - adn my trip is paid for - all but 94 dollars. But, I can't come up with the spending money and I'm having to choose between the trip and Christmas thanks to Hurricane IKE!!!!

I am so mad. I'm mad and sad and depressed and just plain unhappy.

We had a big chunk of our holiday money put away - but all that was spent evacuating. Well, guess what - insurance, FEMA and all that crap does not pay anything on the cost of eating out every meal for days - or gas back and forth to wherever you went - or gas to run a generator for two freaking weeks etc etc.... so - that all pretty much depleted my Christmas fund - and so I need my Disney money in order to still have Christmas. My kids are too little to trade Disney for Christmas - and we have a really big holiday with a lot of family and they all come to my house - and I can't just blow Christmas for everyone.

I've considered every possibility - and I just can't figure out a miracle to save this trip. We are right now just praying the insurance money we get covers the damage to the house!! We have a deductible too - so that's another issue.

Ugh. Anyway - thought I'd whine to someone who would actually understand! I tried to tell my oldest son - he's 5 - that we were not going to be able to go - and he said he would be very sad if we couldn't go - and I said well - maybe we can do something else fun - and he said the only thing he wanted to do other than Disney was to go in a rocket ship and fly to the moon and visit God. Now, what am I supposed to say to that??? Good grief. I was speechless. I don't think I said anything intelligent in response to that statemente!!

So - I have the yucks. I need to go clean my house and stop moping around here. I was going in a Grand Gathering of 17 people!! One of my friends has cancelled as well - due to IKE. And my dad and stepmother also cancelled because he was affected by Gustav AND Ike and he's out of extra money. And, my mother - is so mad because we are not going and she already bought her airfare!! Sigh.

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