The 5oz Foodie

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Christmas is my most favorite time of year... It's the retelling of our saviors birth, the gift giving and the special times we spend with our loved ones... It's a time of blessings and love... Last night I spent an amazing evening with my Core Team Family... Our Core Family Matriarch recently had emergency surgery and so we had to postpone our original party night... On Thanksgiving Eve she was not feeling well and by early Friday morning she was feeling so terrible that her husband had to take her to the ER, where they discovered her appendix had ruptured... She immediately prepped for surgery and taken in... After her surgery she asked her husband to please call the training trailer to let the Core Team know that she would not be able to join us for the Party... That totally touched my heart and the hearts of the rest of our team, that she thought of us in the middle of all of her own problems... We immediately decided to postpone the party because we really wanted h...

What an incredible day... Our Training Team joined the challenge to help collect toys for the US Marine's Toys for Tots Campaign that Disney is a part of each year... Two years ago our team collected a mere 24 toys, last year we collected 50, so I figured being the champion for our team, we could strive for a goal of 75... That would average about 2 to 3 toys per person in our office... So I began sending out messages to our team encouraging everyone to donate a new unwrapped toy... To mark our progress I got creative and took something we all enjoy watching and our toy sponsors for this year... I took the cliff hanger from The Price is Right and replaced his face with the face of our one Ops training Manager and then took Elsa from Frozen and replaced her face with our other F&B/Merch training manager.... As we collected toys the cliff hanger would make his way up the hill to reach our 75 toy goal... Not long after we started collecting toys our Ops Manager said that he ...

I have been thinking a lot about this time of year lately... How it is not only about the celebration of the Birth of Jesus but how it's the end of one year and the beginning of the next... I know there are a little over 2 weeks still remaining but so much has happened over the course or this past year... I started off this new year with a trip to the emergency room... Since then I have had 3 EKG's, 2 CT scans, a sleep apnea test, multiple x-rays of my knee as well as an MRI, and a chest x-ray just to round out the year... My borrowed family grew by one nephew and he is adorable... I love him so much.... One of my oldest and dearest sister friends came to visit and along with Mom and BFF we journeyed to Jupiter to meet up with my oldest brother, sis-in-law, niece and great niece for a day... I had a record summer of receiving new Disney babies in my areas and can't wait to meet my new ones this next year... My middle brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew came ...

I have had a crazy week to say the least... I was in a car accident a week ago tomorrow and I did the exact opposite of what i would normally do when big things happen... I basically kept it out of social media... No FB posts, no tweets, no huge blog... well right away anyway.... So short version is that I rear ended someone and there was NO phone involved... Myself and the other driver both went to the ER and we both came out a little banged up but walking out on our own two feet... I never spoke with the other driver but Mom spoke with his mother at the scene of the accident and she said he was doing just fine... The driver behind me is actually who called 911 and reported everything... I believe in angels and I know God put this family behind me for a reason... They helped get me out of the car and onto the side of the road for my safety... The son ran down across the outer road and helped Mom up the small hill to bring me comfort... Before the family left once the paramedics, fir...

What a fantastic day today... 3 Years ago when they were last here, my brother wanted to do a Sunrise/Sunset Florida Coast to Coast trip but unfortunately we weren't able to make it happen until today. We all woke up some time between 4 and 4:45AM got dressed and piled into the van and headed for Cocoa Beach. Despite the forecast for rain on both coasts we decided to move ahead with the plan. We arrived at the Pier a little before 7 am and headed for the ocean. My nephew has never been in the ocean so this was a huge deal. We spent some time taking photos as the sun came up. Despite the clouds the scene was incredible. The sky came alive with light and before we knew it the sun was up and we were hungry. We hoped into the car and headed for a local diner where we all enjoyed a delicious home style breakfast. We headed back towards home for a short rest and then before we knew it we were back in the van heading to the other coast. Madeira is about a 2 hour drive one way and w...

Being injured has been an extremely humbling experience... Not only have I have to rely on my co-workers to help me out with my normal day to day tasks, but I have had to rely on my Mom and my BFF for help... Today was especially hard because Saturdays are Mommy and Me days where we run errands and maybe stop for a schmeckin (our word for a little bite to eat). Well what started out as a normal few stops turned into a 12 stop day... Half way through our day BFF was able to join us and he was such a huge help when my body just couldn't go on after 10 stops, he stepped in and helped Mom with her walker and made sure she didn't buy out Salvation Army. And if she had, he would have helped her load it all in the car... It's so hard to ask for help...but thank you to all who have helped and especially to Mom and BFF... Musicsongbird