Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy………Today these words are bringing heartache of the Disney I cannot enter or touch. The words that I will not lightly brush with my hand as I walk beneath them for the….well, more times than I can count. I was supposed to be kicking off a very important birthday trip for Bella today. One for our Disney bucket lists and one that would never be forgotten, but instead, I am home, quarantined like many of you, wondering when our happy place will once again open it’s magical gates to us. I have searched for many weeks of the words to express how I feel about this unprecedented situation. I have only had one other breakdown during this “stay at home order” and I wanted to keep it that way, BUT………

I know that most of you have been through this already. So many of my sweet clients have either had to postpone or cancel their trips in light of this crazy situation. I felt your pain, trust me, but in order for me to do the best job I could for you, I had to remain composed. This, however, is not so much the case today…….

So as I sit here, tears going like never before. I am choosing to think on the happiest of times at Walt Disney World and Disneyland and I am choosing to focus on all the amazing things that are in store for us once those gates open once again.

I am so used to being on property every 2-3 weeks that the first of March seems a lifetime ago, and the end of February seems even longer.

I will be FOREVER thankful that one of the last memories I had at Land was seeing Magic Happens multiple times during our last stay AND that I got to spend my last weekend at Disney World with my family and best friend as she ran the RunDisney half. These may not have seemed like milestone trips to me at the time, but their value in my memory vault have exponentially grown since the closures.

Even though I always endeavor to NEVER take a Disney trip for granted, I can assure you that ALL my future adventures will be even more treasured than before. I am SO blessed to step foot inside those gates as much as I do. Being a bi-coastal pass holder recently just made it even more amazing of late. But I will absolutely NEVER, EVER take one step inside Disney property for granted.

I know that many folks may not understand. For a ton, I know that you are thinking this is just “first world problems” and that may very well be the case, but Disney parks and the love of Disney is a way of life for me and my family. This pandemic, while having huge effects on people that I would never minimize, has left a whole in my heart that can only be filled by Main Street, USA. I miss the smell of Flight, the tears of Magic Happens, the emotion of World of Color, the beauty of Happily Ever After, the taste of scalding hot cheeseburger egg rolls, the crisp refreshment of grapefruit beer, and so so much more. I miss MY HOMES. And I cannot wait to see them again REAL SOON.