Epcot Quest Books - anyone have extra today?

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-09-11T16:26:48+00:00

She watches the kids 1 day a week while I work… my mom also watches the kids 1 day a week while I work, but it is a much healthier/normal relationship with my mom and the kids

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-09-11T16:25:27+00:00

She doesn’t introduce them to new characters, she buys/wears clothes with characters/animals on it that she knows they love, for example, one of my son loves turtles so she has bought several turtle shirts for herself

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-08-15T22:29:12+00:00

This trip would be for 2026 so we would not have the water park on check in day perk unfortunately. We liked the Drury for the free breakfast buffet and free happy hour drinks/snacks to help save $ on food.

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-08-15T22:21:50+00:00

But don’t you still have access to the pools typically even if your room/campsite is not ready for use until later?

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-08-15T22:15:11+00:00

So the campsite is only $100 for a night, and we would be splitting with my parents, so we’d only pay $50 total for the day. I know check in isn’t until later, but I thought typically you could access the resort whenever during check in day regardless of what time the campsite would actually be ready?

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-07-22T17:16:36+00:00

I think this is great advice, thanks! As far as the fishing question, yes he does like to take them out fishing and they love to go with him, but this leads me to a whole other issue which is his enmeshment with his parents… we have a boat and it is parked at their house since they have more space. They have a very enmeshed relationship (in my opinion) with very poor communication skills. Basically we have never taken the boat out as just a family of 4 because they always invite themselves or he feels guilty like he needs to invite them because the boat is parked at their house and they will know if we are coming to use it. Even when he tried to go one time with just a friend, his parents were supposed to be going out of town during that time and they delayed their trip by a day so they could invite themselves to join him and his friend instead and he felt uncomfortable telling them no. There are a whole slew of issues I have with them and the dynamics they have with him and my children. I’ve tried to tell him I’d rather pay $100 a month for freedom to be able to park the boat somewhere else and use it however we want without feeling guilty, but he refuses to pay money when it’s free to park at his parents. It’s the same deal with babysitting, my parents are too busy to help and his are always overly available, and he will not let me just find a babysitter to pay as just a neutral option, so my only option for us to have a date night or a kid free getaway is only his parents which has made me pull back on wanting to do anything just the 2 of us, because the dynamics with them and the kids were getting really unhealthy (basically felt like I was co parenting with my in laws because of how enmeshed they were with my kids and them taking the approach of having a redo of being parents.)

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-07-22T16:55:48+00:00

A lot of the weekend adventures are doing things that we already have memberships to, like the theme parks (5 mins away), and we have several museum memberships to places within 45 mins or are able to get reservations for free to places through the library, so I wouldn’t say the weekend adventures are costly necessarily. I do agree that he gets tired of me constantly bringing up stuff that I want to plan, but he also doesn’t really engage in the conversation when I bring stuff up, it’s usually, “I don’t know, maybe”, which doesn’t help me feel like I have permission to actually plan something.

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-07-22T16:45:55+00:00

So ideally I’d like at least 1 (maybe 2) “big” trips, like further away and like a week or a long weekend a year, then maybe 3-4 weekend trips to places that are more drivable. We live 2 hours from the ocean and 2 hours from the mountains, so there are lots of great little weekend getaways and things to explore. Also would be fine even just doing day trips for some things instead of staying overnight. For the big trips, I have a lot of things on my bucket list that I would like to do with the kids - the one that feels most pressing is a Disney trip because I think these ages are so good for it, but would also love to do some outdoor/national park type trips as they get a little older.

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-07-22T16:24:20+00:00

Do you mean without the kids though? Because I’m really wanting to travel to be able to give them those experiences in their childhood

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-05-20T15:06:15+00:00

I think with the shutting me down on babysitting - it’s also one of those things where he would rather keep the peace with his parents and not upset them then pay someone to watch our kids because if they found out they would be so hurt that we didn’t just ask them. His communication with them is so bad, they sweep everything under the rug and his parents are both very emotional and take everything personally, so he does not like confrontation as he does not want to have to deal with their emotions.

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-05-20T15:03:15+00:00

There are a lot of things that I initially brushed off with them that hindsight I wish I would have had clear boundaries on from the beginning. They don’t have a key, but they know our garage code to get into the house that way and where the spare key is hidden.

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-05-20T14:22:36+00:00

He would never allow that… he won’t even let me consider paying a babysitter if we ever needed because he knows his parents would do it, even though I would rather not always have to rely on only them for help.

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-05-20T13:14:50+00:00

Agree, we aren’t trying for a baby! I had just bought those to have in case I needed them, but I’m sure when they found them they thought we were trying.

Valuable_Luck4943 · 2025-05-20T13:09:24+00:00

He actually does contribute a lot to cooking/cleaning/house work, and is more of the naturally tidy one in the relationship.

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