The Beginning of the End

Oh my.  So many things have happened since the last post.  I'm going to try to get updated this week, especially for those folks who live far away (hi, Su!).  Now, here it is the first month of 2012 - the end of that month, actually - and I already feel like this is going to be a year of new beginnings for myself.  I feel a renewed desire to get organized, get in shape, and to get myself in a better frame of mind.  Not that I'm putting pressure on myself to get over my grief.  That will happen when it happens.  But I just feel ready to make some changes for the better.  The ironic thing is, that if the Mayans are right, I might as well just let the house go to hell in a hand basket and eat all the cheesecake I can get my hands on.  Fingers crossed that by this time next year, I'll be around to have made good on some of my resolutions.

The best way to follow the last post, in which I was giddy with excitement about telling the boys that we were going to Disney World, is with this video clip we took Christmas morning when we actually told them.  They have been asking about Disney for about a year now, ever since they learned that the castle from the beginning of their favorite Disney movies is a real place.  And you can go to it.  And Lightning McQueen and Buzz and Woody are there.  Bigger-than-life-sized.  And you can meet them.

You know the videos you see on television when the parents are telling their kids and they're practically crying from the excitement?

This one leaves those in the dust.  In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that you've never seen a "We're going to Disney World" video like this one.

So go pop yourself some popcorn, grab a cold beverage and come back and hit play.

Go ahead.  I'll wait.

Because I'm sure you're going to want to watch this more than once.  It's just that unbelievable.