New Normal

UNITED WE STAND 🇺🇸

🔹Carnival Cruise line told Trump, “We can match those big Navy hospital ships with some fully staffed cruise ships.”

🔹GM & Ford said, “Hold our cars, watch this; we can make ventilators where we were making cars by next week.”

🔹Construction companies said, “Here are some masks for the medical staff & doctors.”

🔹Restaurants & schools said, “We’ve got kitchens & staff; we can feed the kids.”

🔹NHL & NBA players are writing checks to pay the arena staff during postponed seasons.

🔹Churches are holding online services & taking care of their members & community.

🔹Women & children are making homemade masks & handing out snacks to truckers.

🔹Breweries are making sanitizer out of the left-over ingredients.

🔹We thought we couldn’t live without baseball, hockey, & NASCAR, or going to beaches, restaurants, or a bar.. Instead, we’re ordering take-out to help keep businesses alive.

What they didn’t count on was America saying, “Hold my beer, watch this.”

I think a Japanese Admiral in the middle of the Pacific said it best in 1941: “I think we have awakened a sleeping giant.”

Give us a little more time & we will be doing much better! Stop listening to the hysterical media.

We are one nation, under God.

God’s got us, & #WeGotThis! 🇺🇸🙏🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸

#UnitedWeStand #BeAnAmericanForAChange

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This is what America is really like!

The One With the Virus

Just so I NEVER forget..... April 2, 2020

*Gas price a mile from home was $1.52 today.
*All Schools are cancelled
*Stay home, work safe. Don't leave your house except for essentials (food, medicine).
*Social distance in public.
*Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (6ft) from each other.
*To keep the numbers of people down in stores, lines form outside.
*Non-essential stores and businesses closed.
*Playgrounds, sports fields, basketball courts, tourist attractions closed.
*Entire sports seasons cancelled.
*Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events are all cancelled.
*Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings all cancelled.
*Churches are closed.
*No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, then 10 or more, now no gatherings of people you don't live with.
*Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home.
*Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves.
*Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
*Panic buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towels, no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.
Shelves are bare.
*Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer, and PPE.
*Government closes the border to all non-essential travel.
*Fines are established for breaking the rules.
*Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.
*Press conferences daily from the President. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.
*Government incentives to stay home.
*Barely anyone on the roads.
*People wearing masks and gloves outside.
*Medical workers are afraid to go home to their families.

**This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, 2020.

Why do I share this?

One day it will show up in my memory feed, and it will be a yearly reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted.

We have so much!
Be thankful. Be grateful.
Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyone.

We are all one! ❤️

Being grandparents is the best!!!

I am in love with this little guy like I never thought possible. Levi is absolute perfection! He's 4 months old now and I can't imagine life without him. His smiles and giggles are the absolute best. During this crazy Corona "quarantine" he is definitely the highlight of my day when I get to see him. We are so lucky to be only 10 minutes away.

My travel agent links

If you get a craving to book a trip to the Caribbean or Hawaii in the middle of the night and it just can't wait... or you know exactly what you want and don't really need the services of a travel agent but would like my name on the reservation in case you have questions..
these links are for you..

To book for Mexico or the Caribbean use this link: http://www.funjet.com/index.asp?plcode=45613DC

To book Hawaii or South Pacific use this link: https://res.blueskytours.globalbookingsolutions.com/search/default.aspx?plcode=45613DCT

If you use these to book your trip I will be the agent on record and can help you with any questions you have.
Questions - shileen@3dcruiseandtravel.com

We're going to be grandparents!!!!

Finally! We are so excited for Jordan and Michael. They are due to have a little boy on December 4th!

I am Cedar Park's only Hawaii Destination Expert according to the Hawaii Tourism site!! Hopefully that will help with leads!

2019

Wellll, Hannah graduated and is still working in College Station. I "retired" from K2F and am now a Travel Agent!!!
My specialty is Hawaii and Cruises to Alaska. (But I can help you with most anything.) I am located in the Austin, Tx area, specifically Cedar Park, but I can meet up with you anywhere or work with you strictly online!
shileen@3dCruiseandTravel.com

Oh my gosh..

It's been like 9 months. WHY? I have no idea. Hannah has had a great first year at A&M. She adjusted just fine and we actually did too. It's weird being an empty nester but we have stayed busy. I am now at the office (Key2Free) full time. Oh, we opened an office in Georgetown!

So I actually go to work every day and funny enough, Josh works from home most days in his pub. Yes, he built a pub in our old game room. It's actually pretty cool. He named it the Crowned Elizabeth and it has lots of cool English pub decor and a booth he built, along with a bar he modified. We also built a really cool deck out back, and we use it all the time. It's like a cool patio restaurant with a fountain and pergola and cool lights. We absolutely love it.

In other news Hannah met a boy last September. They are still together and it's looking pretty serious. His name is Javi, he grew up in El Salvador, and he's a junior Senior aerospace engineering major at A&M. They met in the ballroom dance club that she joined. Oh yeah, she is a ballroom dancer now, who knew. She tried out for the team for fun and made it! They have been pretty much inseparable since they met. We have allowed her to bring him home on multiple weekends and holidays and even on our spring break trip so we can get to know him. I absolutely adore him. I really love how good he is with her. He handles her ups and downs and freak outs with ease. :-)

I promise to keep this more updated. We just moved Hannah home for the summer, she's going to intern with us at Key2Free for the next 3 months!!

Aggieland

Our visit was so much fun. Even for a Longhorn. Just one night in that city converts you. All the "Howdy's" and "Gig-em's" and friendly smiles start to invade your pores and you end up just handing over your credit card and go home with more maroon than you could imagine. Hannah loves it there. I really think she's gonna be very happy there the next 2 years, and I will look for any opportunity to get back.

So much..

In the last month Erin got married, Jordan graduated from college, I had an Amazing Race (Mothers Day edition) and I went to Africa! I haven't had a chance to reflect or process all that has occurred because things have been so crazy. And things aren't letting up. We have to take Hannah to new student orientation at A&M in the next two weeks and then we're headed back overseas to England and Ireland in July!
Here are a few highlight pics from this last month:

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