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nugget and i are hitting the road saturday for our first major road trip. is this really a good idea? do sane people drive long distances, cross many states with a three-year old in tow? please check “yes” or “no.”
as bad as i am about blogging on a regular basis, i will try really, super hard to post ridiculous photos and updates from our journey. twitter is likely to be the landing spot for most of these tidbits of humor and despair, and i know you won’t want to miss a single bit. so be sure to follow me or at least check out my twitter feed on the left-hand sidebar.
oh right, you wanted to know where exactly we’re headed to. why, central florida, of course. that’s where i was born and raised. i spent the majority of my formative years playing with and then working for the mouse. now i happily haul my daughter there to subject her to the media machine immerse her in the culture i grew up in.
nugget’s aunt jenny is playing her first ever orlando show at backbooth on may 25th. have you gotten your tickets yet? check out park ave cds – i heard they’ll give you a ticket when you purchase one of jenny’s records! so come out and join us as we officially celebrate me kicking cancer’s ass. it will be quite the party. kinda like this one (but sadly without bess rogers).
as africa hot as it is sure to be in florida right now, we’ll still have an excellent time. i’m a native, a pro at avoiding the scorching death rays with which the sun tortures the tourists.
there will be lots of late afternoon trips to the magic kingdom. we will watch far too many parades and shows, and spend hours making special trips to visit with her “friends” (disney characters).
there will be long walks around epcot’s world showcase with my friends and their tots. the mamas will enjoy adult beverages while we drink our way around the world and the kids will craft at each of the kidcot stations. it’s a win-win.
i will don my new, modest i’mamommynow swimsuit and brave a water park or two. i will most certainly make other mommies to suffer along with me.
we plan to stay until main street electrical parade makes its return to walt disney world on june 6th as part of summer nightastic! i am giddy with delight at the mere thought of sitting with nugget and watching her hear for the first time:
“ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, walt disney world proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination in thousands of sparkling lights and electrosynthomagnetic musical sounds . . . the main street electrical parade!”
nugget just brought the vhs cassette of elp’s farewell season at disneyland into my office. she’s ready to do her homework. i’m ready to teach her baroque hoedown.
i’m ready to go home.
today, nugget and i are at disneyland, the happiest place on earth, with auntie krista, and it is just indeed that.
stitch, pluto and daisy duck welcomed us to the paradise pier hotel this morning. they asked nugget to have breakfast with them tomorrow morning and she happily agreed.
right now, nugget is enjoying high school marching bands and a mickey mouse ice cream sandwich while we wait on castle hub for the new parade, celebrate! a street party, to start.
we met tinker bell and her fairy friend, fawn after lunch. nugget is really looking forward to seeing her fly during fireworks tonight.
we’ll have lots of photos of our celebration to post when we get home, so be sure to check back soon for those!
nugget daddy and her grandmamie brought nugget to my hospital room to get ready for trick-or-treating. she was, of course, beyond adorable in her tinker bell dress and wings, sparkly green tinker bell shoes, tinker bell wand and ballet pink tights. i pulled her tiny tresses up into the best tink-like puff i could manage, fluffed it up with plenty of hairspray and added a clip with tiny white flowers. she politely shrieked, “dada! dada!” and beamed with pride as she was showered in nugget daddy’s hair product. what, you didn’t think it was mine, did you?
then we selected where she wanted her green star stamps placed and where best the pink star stamps were suited for. earlier, i ‘d done a sample patch of each color on each of my cheeks so she could see how they both looked.
then we applied a very liberal dusting of pixie dust. i should have gotten her some “pixie dust” glitter of her own to keep in her “berry bucket” for dousing unsuspecting passers-by. ah well, there’s always next year!
we made a few rounds though the halls to the different nurses’ stations. nugget was heartbreakingly cute and insisted on holding my hand, always unsure of how to navigate around all the wires attached to her mama. i told her it was almost time to go to the mall for more trick-or-treating and that her grandmamie would be getting her the tinker bell movie while they were there.
we said our goodbyes and i swear, i just couldn’t get enough hugs or kisses from my sweet baby girl. i watched as they made their way down the hall, all the while nugget was cheerfully waving goodbye, happy as a clam, all pixied-up and ready for more candy collecting.
i stepped back into my room just as the tears started rolling down my face. i tried to sob silently for my own selfish sadness. i hoped she was having the time of her life, holding out her fat little felt flower bag – surely that’s what fairies collect halloween candy in – and squealing with delight with the acquisition of each new piece of candy. she had oh-so-politely signed “thank you” for each treat she’d collected from the nurses and i hoped that trend was continuing at the mall. i’m so very proud of my little tinklet.
i hope i can get out of here this weekend in time for the good post-pumpkin day costume sales at the disney store and old navy. otherwise, i might have to send someone armed with a fully charged cell phone and a whole lot of patience on my behalf!
a woman i used to work with messaged me on myspace this week. i read it yesterday and it absolutely made my day, which i might add was spectacularly craptastic up until then.
“i started working at magic kingdom back in 1997 and only partially knew who you were. you were always cool to me at town square and spectromagic and stuff, but we were only acquaintances.i happened upon your page through mikki and started reading your blog, “bits of myself,” and i cannot help being taken by how fucking amazing you are. sorry for the language from someone you do not know, but i can’t think of any other words. i don’t even remember where i started the “bits,” but i backed up to where you found out you had cancer. by the time i got to your final breastfeeding with nugget, there were uncontrollable tears streaming down my face at how you kept apologizing to her, for something that you did not ask for.
i don’t know how much all of this means coming from someone you don’t know, but i just had to get this out. i was driving day parade floats when you were at mk with your baby girl, and i saw you two days in a row. knowing how painful it must be, there you stood in the sun, in a tank top, bald… smiling and waving.
i hope i didn’t weird you out with all this, but know that you have touched one more individual’s life. you are the strongest woman that i don’t know.”
i just needed to thank you for that and let you know that your kind words have touched my heart. thank you for reading my blog. and thank you to all of you who continue to do so. i hope you’ll all stay tuned for the exciting conclusion to this chapter of my life.
chemo is kicking my ass this week and i’m still exhausted from traveling. here’s your first installment of vacation photos, though. you’ve been waiting so patiently… sort of. i know it’s been hard. enjoy!
bits of myself 
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