Oh No Laurie, The trip is still on. Just the dates will change. I am so glad you will still get -- just going to be a bit later then expected. For so long you had a great time planning, making ressies for the prior trip. Now you get to have that much and more fun redoing.
Have a great day
Patty
I have no patience for stoopid people! Jeez, I understand your pain. We've cancelled trips before, but your poor kids!
Having to start all over just seems like a waste of time, effort and $$$. Hopefully it will go much quicker this time. H&R Block does hold some liablity, and they should make it "right". 
Laurie, you have the right attitude about this. I understand the sadness and the depression I have had to cancel trips and it has broken my heart. I am so sorry to hear about your dad.
Oh No Laurie, The trip is still on. Just the dates will change. I am so glad you will still get -- just going to be a bit later then expected. For so long you had a great time planning, making ressies for the prior trip. Now you get to have that much and more fun redoing
Have a great day
Patty
Laurie,
I'm heartbroken for all of you!
Anyway, you get the fun of planning again! Half the fun is the planning and the getting there!
We will get you through this!
Sorry to hear that the trip has been postponed due to one piece of paper. Now being from Canada I have never dealt with the IRS, but why can't you just get them the one form you need and they add it to your already open case file and get on with it???
Welcome to the US Government at it's finest!I'm so sorry you're having to deal with all this mess, Laurie!
I don't know - maybe I'm having a hard time accepting that your trip just won't happen. I'm in denial. For some reason, I keep thinking that it will work out somehow at the last minute - maybe with very little time left to plan, but somehow... My mind is not grasping that it won't happen.
On the one hand, I totally understand and empathize. Anyone who has followed along with my TR tales over the last 3 years knows that I keep running into one roadblock after another after another in my plans. Sometimes they are roadblocks that can be pushed aside after repeated attempts, and other times I have to just let the whole plan go. It's happened more times than I care to count - and let's face it, the problem could almost always be solved if I had any money to throw around at the situation. Even the current 7-night PPH plan I have now for the holidays is teetering on the edge of not happening all the time, due to money and other issues. I am trying to think positively and believe that I will pull it together at the last minute. These trips are the things I look forward to all year long.
On the other hand, I think that sometimes, when these wrenches get thrown into our plans in a major way (like your IRS situation), it probably is a big sign telling us that the trip is not meant to be for some reason. That doesn't mean it isn't meant to be a month or two later, or next year, but at that particular time it isn't mean to happen.
Maybe - for reasons we don't understand yet - your trip is not meant to happen at that particular time, but another time will be better. But the great news is that as soon as you get that money, you can start rescheduling!
So when the money does come through, are you going to plan another Halloween trip for next year? Or are you going to plan a trip for any other time in 2012 (I know you've got the Diva thing coming up)? Or what will happen? I agree with Paula - I wish there were time for you to plan a holiday trip this year but the money may not arrive in enough time to get that squared away.
I don't have the heart to cancel anything at this point....will hold off until Sept......I always can hope for a miracle!!
Laurie I said this on FB but I will say again I am SO sorry for this! I can TOTALLY relate. What with all the stupid financial issues the past few years with the recession and just life in general we have had to cancel lots of trips and it SUCKS!
The worst part is you get your hopes up like you said and even though you KNOW it is cancelled there is a part of you that really doesn't want to believe it and somehow hopes by some miracle that things will change.
I can TOTALLY to relate about needing to have a trip in the works or to be planning something to keep you feeling good and from not going insane. My life has had a lot of bumps the last several years and I haven't had a lot to be happy about either but like you said by planning a trip it really keeps my spirits up and gives me something to look forward to!
And like you I know I am blessed to have my kids and a roof and food etc but you and I both know sometimes you need that little extra bit of magic to make all the CRAPPY stuff in life not get in the way!
((hugs)) and I KNOW that eventually it will all work out, you WILL get the money and you WILL plan another trip. It just REALLY sucks right now but the holidays are coming and if you are like me you can enjoy your kids at halloween and xmas and then you have the ladies trip to look forward to so I know you will find some fun things to get your mind of the bad stuff!
And I know I am here for you as I am sure the others are as well!
Hang in there and tomorrow will be a better day! Promise!
You know I feel bad for boo hooing about canceling a trip....there are so many other things that rate much higher than that but DL is just a part of me & not going is like losing a friend. I'll survive, as will the family........there's nothing I can do about the situation & believe me, I've learned to live with many bumps in the road.....you just play with the cards your dealt. It's just nice to occassionally hit a royal straight!
I am positive that once things sink in a bit and once you FINALLY get the money it will be so much more exciting to actually be able to plan something.
Thanx!!
Thanx!!
But like you, I always say things happen for a reason.....unfortunately, the only viable reasons I can come up with for not going that week is something happening to my dad or step-mom.....I'd much rather be on vacation then to think about that happening. I'm very lucky to still have all 4 of my parents (including steps).....but I know neither my dad or stepmom are in good health, in fact my stepmom is in really bad shape. She's been fighting cancer for 30 yrs....not too many people can say that. Unfortunately, she's losing the battle as the cancer has spread everywhere. My dad is extremely weak & not recognizing people.....so I worry about his health as well.
Does this open the Christmas time possibility.......who knows?? Mike's unsure if he'd have the opportunity to get away that soon into his new position & unless with the change of jobs/stores.....he's pretty much stuck with his vacation time the first week of October.
There is some possibility to combining our family trip with the girls trip like Mike & I did this past March. They could drive down & meet me at the end of the girls trip & then we would be there in the off-season. Low crowds are awesome, but fear what all would be closed for refurbs.
If Shyann could talk clearly & in sentences.....she would say the reason we're not going in October now would be this: "I didn't want to go with POTC being down as that is my favorite song to sing".......lol
) - if you had cancelled the reservation. Even if the trip is not meant to be for some reason (and it may be for reasons that never make themselves known, that only God and the Universe know), I don't think it will be tempting fate at all to keep the reservation until September! It simply makes good sense!
Don't feel bad at all!! I don't blame you one bit for being upset!!! I would be too that was my point of my other post. Sure there are other more important things in life but like you said sometimes we just need something good to look forward to and you are probably like me. Disney is my happy place and I know no matter how crappy everything else in life is at least for a short time I can go there and even if I just sit on a bench I am in my fav place and I am soaking up the sights, smells and sounds and it is just BETTER!
Like I said though the good thing is at least you will get the money eventually and as MUCH as it sucks right now as some of the others said you can just look forward to spending it later!!
I know for me I am having to look for full time work and if I DO go back full time my entire life is going to change. Not only will my vacations prob end but being able to take the girls to school and pick them up and go to their sports events and on and on. I have basically been home with them since they were born and eventhough I work I work for my family so it is VERY flexible. I only wish they could pay me enough that I could survive off it but I can't so I have to go back out in the "real" world and go back to 8-5 and not seeing my kids and I am NOT looking forward to it but it is a reality of life unfortunately.
I was thinking about POTC being closed, so it's funny you mentioned Shyann's comment (if she could talk clearly and in sentences)!!
Yes, I truly think that when your eventual Halloween trip happens, it will be an even better version of Halloween Time at DLR than it is now. Plus, CarsLand will be open, all the DCA work will be complete, etc.
However, I am glad you didn't cancel anything yet, just in case!!! That's what I was originally going to ask you in my previous post (and then forgot to ask it!
Plus, if, for some reason the money comes earlier than expected but in not enough time to get the Halloween trip together, and if there is even a remote chance of working something out for the holidays (if Mike can arrange it in the schedule), it would probably be easier to take your existing reservation and just 'move' it to the desired holiday time rather than cancelling and then booking a whole new room.
I'm crossing my fingers that something will work out this year, but if not, you do have the Diva trip coming up and you had a wonderful Diva trip this year. Halloween trips (and Christmas time trips) will come soon! The Disneyland magic will continue!!
Laurie -
Kris
Once I got over the screaming & crying....what could I do. It was totally out of my hands! I could get really honary & go back & amend the 09 & add in Addy......that would be another 12,000.......but we didn't feel it right to claim her as "special needs" just because she was a foster child. Besides, that would probably really throw a wrench into the works & to be honest.....I just want this whole thing to get over with.
I am so sorry to hear this and so mad at H & R Block for you
I really hope by some miracle this can get expedited
Laurie I am just getting on the computer today so coming in late. I cannot believe that this all happened over one missed form! I am heartbroken for you! But I too believe that all things happen for a reason so maybe this particular trip is not meant to be for reasons that will never be known. I truly hope you can do the combined Diva/family trip. At least that isn't too far away. (Yeah, I know ... easy for me to say, right? Hard when our hearts lie with the Mouse).
Hang in there, Laurie. You are an incredibly strong woman with a really great attitude about this. It will all work out in the end.
I still need to cut loose with a good cry......I've been going from sad to mad & crying while grumping about this......so when Mike gets home from work.....I think I'll let er' rip so I can move on. Right now it's all just perculating in my gut & that's not a good thing!!! Trying to keep it together for the family but as you know.......totally broken by the news.
) I know it seems like it will be an eternity from now before Halloween or Christmas 2012 get here, but is that a possibility? You could still make the reservations and get all the plans in motion, but it would just be a longer wait. What's that saying? Run it up the flagpole and see if it flies?
I know it all looks bleak now, but remember, many of us have been through this 'trip is falling apart' thing, and many of us use these trips as something happy to focus on to not think about other, less happy things. So when they do fall apart, WE fall apart too, because our emotions are tied up in them. So you are not alone! We are all in it together!
So, let's first cross our fingers and hope that something works out for this year and the check will speed through the red tape and fall into your hands - so you can either make a very last-minute, haphazard Halloween trip or a holiday trip or something. But if not, then it wasn't meant to be.
As for the Diva trip, I can totally understand how you'd feel guilty for doing another Diva trip and being at DLR without the kids for a second time, in which case a combo Diva/family trip would be ideal. But then, as you said, you wouldn't make it back for the holidays (or Halloween, either, presumably)...possibly for a very long time.
Let's then assume that the plans for this year cannot be worked out. I know I am about to incur the wrath of 1000 Divas by suggesting this but....could you possibly skip the Diva trip in 2012 and then just put all your 'eggs' into one great big Halloween or Christmas DLR basket in 2012? (I'm ducking and hiding right about now!
But I guess it boils down to how important it is to get the kids to Disneyland ASAP (for the Diva trip), or if it will be more worthwhile to wait until you all can make a Halloween or Christmas visit. The Diva trip would kill two birds with one stone, of course - seeing the Divas and taking the family on a DLR trip. But then you might not be doing a Halloween or Christmas trip until at least 2013.
Just running different scenarios around in my mind...
And one thing to look forward to is that POTC will be up and running by the Diva trip, or by next Halloween, or in 2 years from now, or whenever you go...so Shyann will be able to sing!
