The Happiest Place on Earth

I am going here:

Tomorrow.

Without my kids.

Who are thrilled:

But I, on the other hand, am so excited I can hardly stand it.

Thanks to Disney and Maria Bailey from BSM Media, I’m going to a Mom Bloggers Mixer, which means that I get to spend the weekend hanging at Disney World with some seriously awesome bloggers, including Lisa from Crazy Adventures in Parenting, Christine from From Dates to Diapers, Megan from Velveteen Mind, Amanda from Oh Amanda, Marsha from Sweatpants Mom, Lindsay from Surburban Turmoil, Beth from I Should Be Folding Laundry and my girl Andrea from Mommy Snacks.

I know what you’re thinking. With all those bloggers who are, like, a big deal, how on earth did I get on the list?

The answer is – I have no flipping idea, but it must have involved a dart board, someone pulling a name out of a hat, or random.org.

But regardless, I am so there, and I am going to do my best to act cool so they don’t catch on to me and wonder why the heck I’m crashing their cool people party. We all know that won’t work, so let’s hope I can win them over with my charm. Ok I definitely need a plan C.

Anyway, I’m leaving bright and early in the morning, and by early afternoon I should be checking into my very own room at Disney’s Beach Club Resort (did I mention I have my own room? Like all by myself? With no baby monitor?) ready for the weekend of a lifetime.

I’m sooooo excited.

I also have nine million things to do before leaving for the airport at 6 a.m. I have to work all day, present on my final paper at my last class of the semester this evening, go home, hang with the kids, give them baths and give them a zillion kisses to last them through the weekend. I’d like to leave the house sparkling and all the laundry done, but we’ll see how that goes. (I’m sorry in advance, honey).

Oh yeah, and I haven’t packed. I do know what I’m packing, though, because I have done some serious shopping in the last week! Time has been short, but I think I’ve hit every clothing store in town on my lunch breaks this week!

(As an aside, let me just tell you that working on a college campus really does a number on one’s self-esteem. You’re completely surrounded by people who are either A) much more accomplished than you, or B) much younger and thinner than you. My knowledge of point B should have been enough to keep me out of the clothing stores around here that are not designed for the nursing mothers among us, yet it did not. At one point I was pretty sure that firefighters were going to have to come get me out of a dress I was stuck in. I finally managed to extricate myself but in the process I squirted breastmilk on my face.)

*ahem*

So anyway, needless to say I am totally pumped and can’t wait for tomorrow to get here. This will be my eighth (I think) trip to Disney, and my first without kids (either under foot or in utero) and I fully intend to make the most of the fact we’ll have a permanent designated driver the trip.

Expect full reports – more than you ever wanted to know – next week 🙂