I'm taking an informal poll (and procrastinating from depressing paper grading)...
How many people think it is a good idea to have a folder with all the print-outs of confirmation numbers, itineraries, contact info for various hotels, tours, reservations, excursions, etc?
It seems to me that having one organized spot (a lovely plastic portfolio with several different pockets and a snazzy cover - but one that takes up little space) is a good plan. I'm even willing to be in charge of it.
Who is with me?
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i'm with you fellers
sounds like a plan...
oh good, i win the vote :)
stebu....
You're not with the fellers, you're with the chicks.... sleeping in a dinghy behind the Diamond Princess for 7 days.
But don't worry. We fellers will theow down scraps-- as long as the dinghy remains upright, anyway.
"me"... (could any nomme de plume be more vain?)
I get to cast 7 votes ..... you don't win.
Signed,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (a/k/a "Dad")
it's my blog, i get more votes than you. i still win.
i'm not so sure what you have against being organized - stuffing everything in an envelope doesn't really sound like the best plan. how well did that work for you when you brought you magic envelope to apply for your passport? hmmm????
Actually, if I'd stuffed all my stuff in the same envelope. I'd have been better off. Think about it....
If I'd brought that combined envelope, I'd have had the birth certificate and marriage certificate in it and might have had to look at which I took out, but they'd both be there.
On the other hand, if I'd lost the combined envelope, I'd have known a lot sooner and ordered a new birth certificate and had it when we went.
When one has only one envelope, one can't bring the wrong one, can one?
Dad aces it. Case closed.... :)
....Besides, for the number of papers we have to bring, we'll be bringing more weight (and space) in folders than we will in the papers in the folders.
just give me the envelope. the folder is hardly heavy and i'll carry it around if you are so concerned about the weight. i know that in your advanced age that is sometimes a concern, so i'm happy to take away that worry.
so here's how i see it:
if dad has the stuff, amy worries all the time & pesters dad all the time, because she is a control freak about travel stuff, and has been for years and years, and probably has a heart attack from the stress, which ruins the trip for everyone.
if amy has the stuff, no one worries, because we all know amy is ridiculously anal about travel arrangements, plus it takes up precious space in amy's bag.
so how is it not win/win to give it to amy?
and oh yeah, my husband is not sleeping in a dinghy.
If Amy gets too anal, she gets budled in a life jacket and dragged along *behind* the dinghy.
That sounds ideal, because if that doesn't teach her to stop pestering dad, dad can always take away the life jacket...
Meanwhile, I like your husband.... really.... but I thought you'd want company when *you* are sleeping in the dinghy and listening to amy whine about being dragged behind it.
Meanwhile, david gets one bedroom, dad gets one bedroom, and sophie gets spoiled rotten by her grandfather and uncle. *That* sounds win-win-win (for three of us) to me....:)
i have an idea, since dad seems to think everyone else with the possible exception of sophie (and you have fun your first night alone with her...) should be in (or attached to) the dinghy (i cannot believe david would not be the first one exiled), we should preemptively send HIM to the dinghy. just think, it'll be your own personal cruise ship. very close to the whales.
i agree with sarah. dad to the dinghy, everyone else perfectly happy inside. just don't put him in the dinghy with the "envelope"
re: nights alone with sophie
Been there.... done that (for three kids - you may be vaguely familiar with at least some of them).... and survived (although not sure how, at the time).
Okay, I wasn't alone, but sophie is beyond nursing, so same thing.
re: dad to the dinghy
Now you know why I'm definitely *not* giving Amy any of the papers. They are the source of all power (well, the tickets to last chance for salmon, anyway....)
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