Happy Birthday Fantasia! ✨❤️🐭💙✨
It’s a great day to celebrate magic because this afternoon, Eliot and I left Maine to travel down to Florida for my Fantasmic 40th Birthday Celebration! 🎂
If you've been following along with me on social media (Facebook or Instagram) you know how excited I have been about this upcoming trip. I've literally been counting down and looking forward to this for months. But what I haven't really gotten into on social media was how much I deeply need this trip for my soul.
Actually, the past few trips we have taken to Disney been all been much needed. In March of 2022, Eliot and I went to Disneyland, our first Disney trip after the COVID pandemic. A few months later in September 2022, we took another trip to Disneyland for the D23 Expo... this time with my brother and parents- it was Mom & Dad's first time at Disneyland. (It was amazing, but it ended up being our last family vacation together.)
Then came the worst year of my life... 2023. Eliot and I actually rang in the 2022-2023 New Year at Walt Disney World. I thought starting the year at the Magic Kingdom would make it magical... but it was just a lifeline. Because when we left Maine, we knew Nana wasn't doing well and she ended up dying that week while we were at Disney.
Our next trip to Disney was in the fall of 2023, it was supposed to be our first trip as a family without Nana. It was already weighing heavily on all of us. Then Daddy died in August. Then it was only four of us... and we were all left broken hearted. Then, days before we were supposed to leave on our trip, the shooting in Lewiston happened. At that point, we were all ready for an escape from the real world. It was a very hard trip, but it came at a time when I so desperately needed it.
No matter what... somehow the magic is always a balm for my soul.
I desperately need a break right now... from my everyday life, from our businesses, from judgement and pressure, from our house (which is a mess right now) and from the things that are weighing heavily on my heart right now. Looking forward to this trip is literally what's gotten me through a few of the tougher days.
In fact, Eliot and I actually just added two more days to our trip last week. Yup, that's right. We changed our flights home from Tuesday to Thanksgiving Day. My heart was telling me to stay longer, and after Eliot and I looked at our plans and did some "Disney math" it made more sense. So we're staying for an extra two days of magic.
So Eliot and I are officially off on another adventure... this time to Florida, the Most Magical Place on Earth and setting sail aboard the Disney Wish!
Watch out world... Melissa’s 40th Birthday Celebration begins now!!! ✨🎂🎉✨
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