Only 3 more sleeps until we load up the van and start the journey and I haven't printed anything yet! Today is THE DAY. I WILL get those things printed, one way or the other.
DD11 finally picked out boots (she has been swinging WILDLY from pretty much hating on everything and everyone to being almost manic and clingy to me - fingers crossed she can enjoy the trip and allow the rest of us to enjoy it too!). So for rain gear, just waiting on her's to arrive on Thursday and I can get all of that packed. We've got shoe covers for DH and I, and rain boots for the kids. Two different brands of ponchos w/ arms bought in bulk from Amazon, and still thinking through what to do for the strollers - the rental has 2 double strollers, so we might not even bring our normal sit & stand, but I should have room for it so maybe I will. And maybe we'll just bring garbage bags to cover it - still thinking it through. Also bringing the raincoats that kids have - the littles have actual rain jackets, but the bigs only have winter coats, but I think that'll work out fine for them anyway.
Forecasts for next week are still all over the place - weather.com has mainly sunny and 60s; accuweather has it even warmer most of the time, but higher chance of rain on Monday (and this changed this morning because last night it had rain for a couple of days), and dark sky has it even hotter (last night it had it cooler AND higher chances of rain....). I'll be packing all the rain gear AND all our swim suits and beach gear. Good thing we aren't flying or I would be stressed about that too. Also good that we're taking a ridiculously large vehicle and I don't have to worry about luggage racks and/or luggage trailers.
Snacks have been acquired for the trip, but DD11 had an awesome idea 2 weeks ago about putting together decorated and personalized lunch sacks full of snacks for each kid. Since that initial idea, she's wanted to do it RIGHT NOW (usually at really inconvenient times, like the middle of making dinner, or when she is supposed to be doing homework), but then when we DID have good times (Sunday afternoon) she wanted nothing to do with it. Hopefully she'll get interested again, because putting the bags together with her could be a lot of fun after the littles go to bed, but if not that'll be on my list for Thursday evening/Friday morning.
Still need to firm up a few trip details surrounding visits with extended family, and we had an early arrival of the newest niece of our family in Austin, which is a stop on the way. I don't want to overwhelm them with our whole brood too early (little one will only be a week old when we go through town), so I'm not sure if our plans will change or not. Also - one BIL let me know he wasn't able to get all the time off, so he'll be joining us for the big drive but only 1 day in park. REALLY glad right now that a) Disney only let me get 8 tickets and once and b) I had procrastinated getting that 9th ticket and c) I put in everyone else's names. Other BIL has been having a bit of alcohol issues since his birthday, so I'm stressing over that, but DH has my back and worst case we put his butt on a plane home early. I don't think it will come to that - he REALLY loves the kids, I think he's just having some of his own stuff going on right now and will be good to go with the fam by Friday.
And the spending continued: school has book fair this week, so I let the kids pick out books today during a special breakfast at school + book fair event ($10 limit each doesn't go as far as it used to sadly), and as an added motivator, they can pick ANOTHER book out Thursday during the open house event after school if they have cleaned their rooms and packed their stuff for the trip.
But the biggest stresser now is my paying job. We've got a big sprint demo due on Thursday, and while I'm only halftime usually, I'm spending a lot of time on it. Fingers crossed testing today goes well and I can relax the rest of the week!