I think that most of us know that the weather and certain health problems are related.  For instance my mom broke her leg many years ago.  And whenever there is storm coming she can predict it by how her leg feels.  She doesn’t even need to watch the weather to know a storm is coming.  Arthritis and weather definitely have a connection.

My daughter has asthma and there seem to be certain triggers in the weather that make her asthma worse.  There is a site called MediClim that can send you email alerts as to when those weather changes are taking place- letting you know ahead of time that your condition could be about to get worse.  It’s certainly a valuable tool to check out.

I am depressed.  I am sick of winter.  I am sick of snow.  I am sick of the cold.  I am sick of the dark, dreary days.  I hate winter and it is making me depressed.

And so.

I have started planning our trip for next September to Disney World.  I have the hotel picked out.  I know what kind of park tickets we want.  I have our flights picked out.  We will get transportation from Disney World to the airport so I don’t have to worry about renting a car.  We are buying the meal plan from Disney so I can start figuring out where we want to eat dinner.  And in March I can start making our dinner reservations.

So now- I am excited!  I know it’s a ways away.  But it’s something to look forward to.

Now I just need to figure out how we’re going to pay for it.

Now I know that summer is still a few months away.  And considering that we usually take our summer vacation in September- it’s even further away.  But, in order to make it through these dark dreary months I have started looking into planning our next vacation.  Our favorite place to vacation is Disney World so I have started looking into going there.

You might remember a few months ago I was talking about how to plan a great trip to Disney World.  Since it’s time to get serious now I have started looking into some hotels.  One of the sites I used to check out where we could stay was HotelsCombined.com.  I like the set up of this site because I was able to say we want our hotel to be within 10 minutes of Disney World as well as listing the features we want such as internet and a swimming pool.  The other thing I loved was that it gave prices for all of the different booking sites so I could easily compare.

Another site I checked was Disney World Vacation Packages because I love the idea of being able to plan my entire trip from the airline to my food all in one place.  You can pick your Disney hotel, get your flight, get transportation to and from the airport, choose a ticket plan for the parks, choose a meal plan for your food and so much more.  It’s an easy way to get it all done in one place.

I also checked out hotels.com and found their prices to be quite a bit more.  Plus I don’t really care for their site set up.

Well I’m off to do some more research.  Any tips or tricks would be appreciated!

This weekend my husband and I are going to go out of town for the first time since we had our daughter.  Honestly I’m a bit worried about it.  She is staying with my parents and I know she’ll be fine.  Actually I know she’ll be fine during the day, it’s the night time I’m worried about.  I’ve never left her for more than a few hours and I’ve only done that a few times. So this is going to be tough.

But, I know this is good for my marriage.  My husband and I are still a couple even though we have a child.  It’s important for us to get some time just to ourselves.  I don’t know what we’ll do.  Probably sit around and wonder what our daughter is doing.  But I think it’s important and we need to do it.

I just read an interesting story about some highway state workers who were cleaning up the roads in Indiana.  They found an old abandoned tire and it had around $100,000 in it.  Fortuanately they were honest and contacted the police about it.  A police dog found the scent of drugs on the money so it is assumed that the money was drug money.

I think it’s an interesting story.  I wonder how long the tire was there.  How could someone hide that much money in their tire and then lose their tire and just leave it?  Crazy.

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A few weeks ago (I think) I wrote about this couple in PA who received more than$175,000 in their bank account in error.  They quit their jobs and moved to FL.

The latest news on this story is that the man involved said he DID attempt to let the bank know what happened, but they ignored him.  So, he thought the money was a gift from God.  He remains in jail as he cannot pay his bail.  His wife is out on bail but she claims she is no longer with her husband.

My favorite past time used to be reading.  Well, I guess you could say that it still is.  Except now instead of reading books I’m usually reading blogs.  It’s so much easier to read a quick blog post than it is to read a whole book now that I have a toddler around.  I do hope that one day I will have more time to sit and relax with a book.  Since my daughter loves to read I do read her quite a few books each day.  Maybe when she is a little older we will both sit with some hot chocolate and a comfy blanket and read together.  For now, it’s blogs for me.

Did you know that I have a 10 year old furry child?  I can’t remember if I have ever mentioned her here on this blog.  Before my daughter arrived a couple of years ago the furry child was the center of attention.  She was, and still is, treated like a human.  When we first got her we looked at pet beds for her but she made it quite clear that she would have none of that.  Human beds were the only thing good enough for her.  And she slept right between me and my husband for the first 8 years of her life.  Then we brought home a baby and everything changed for my furry little child.  Although she does still sneak in our bed sometimes, she actually prefers to sleep under our bed now.  It’s safer there.

Did you make a resolution this year?  How is it going?  So far I’m doing pretty good with the goals I set for myself.  The one thing I am struggling with is losing weight.  I don’t have a lot left to lose and I know that last pounds are the hardest to lose.  But it’s frustrating.  I wonder how many people were really motivated at the start of the year and went out and bought treadmills.  But now they feel discouraged and are ready to quit and give up their weight loss goal.  I’m pretty sure it usually happens by the end of January.  Although I’m not giving up I am discouraged.