Savings Goal Accomplished - We Are Going To Disneyland!

Whooooo hoooooooooo!

Honestly, I was beginning to think it wasn't going to happen.  It seemed like every time I started saving for this trip something would happen and the funds needed to be spent elsewhere.  With my oldest set to graduate at the end of the school year I was running out of time.  I needed to either make it happen or abandon the idea altogether.  I'm not one who likes to be defeated so making it happen became a big priority for me.

For years I've been setting money aside any extra money, saving my change, add rebates or "found" money into that fund and like I said things would come up and since a trip to Disneyland isn't a necessity I used that money to take care of things that came up.  Both of my girls are very active and participate in a lot of activities and that costs money.  They both needed extensive dental work and while our insurance is covering my youngest's orthodonture as medically necessary my oldest's braces weren't covered so I paid for those.  I've had my own medical bills as well.  In the past five years we've been through quite a bit financially.  In no way am I complaining about any of it.  The fact of the matter is I've been blessed to be able to take care of these things.  No matter what, I've always managed to make it happen.

So, it just took a little longer than I was expecting things to take, but at long last we made it!  I got busy this year, put my plans for Laverne on hold, tightened my belt, started saving like crazy and the money came together.

The trip is booked! After the girls are done with school and graduation is behind us we'll be headed to The Happiest Place On Earth.  Yipeeeee!  I am so excited I can hardly stand myself!

We are doing a big road trip to Anaheim and will be stopping to do some fun stuff along the way in Nevada.  I've booked the hotels for that part of our journey already too and will continue to save up for gas, food, souvenirs, spending money and one more hotel stay on the way home.  I have plenty of time for that, thankfully, and feel pretty confident I can pull it all together as the bulk expense of this trip is taken care of.

We're going to Disneyland!