It is with a very heavy heart that I have to yet again announce that I have not advanced through to Round Two in the selection process for the Disney Moms Panel. 🙁 The bad news came one week ago today, but it has taken me this long to come to terms with it. Some may say this is a bit melodramatic, but those people would not be die hard Disney fans. I received my email amidst a frenzy of posts on Face Book and the Dis Boards on Friday, October 12th, around mid afternoon. It was different this time around. This time around I really thought I had made it. Each year as I gain more knowledge and insight on the panel, I feel my chances getting stronger, but I was shot down once more. Okay, maybe a week wasn’t enough time for me to get over this. 🙁 Writing about it now is bringing back all the heartache…
Anyway, that is for me and my pillow to deal with. What I wanted to share now is the sense of community and the out pouring of support and love that came to light during the time the emails were going out. I belong to the Mickey Moms Club. This club was formed after the first year the panel started. That would be in 2007/2008. Most of the folks who did not make the panel in the first couple of years were invited to join the Mickey Moms Club. In fact, we even had a say in what the name of the club would be. I have to admit, I voted to call it something like the Mom Mouseketeers or something similar, but they went with the Mickey Moms Club (MMC). No worries, still a cute name. There is more to the MMC story and I am going to save that for another day, but for now I just wanted to focus on the specialness of that group. Many of the members of the MMC belong to a group on Face Book called the Mickey Moms Club Super Group, complied of Disney Moms Panel fans and wannabees like myself. During all the great news being posted about who made it to Round Two, there was so much empathy and love for those of us who did not advance. I think this made me even more upset for a bit because how could I possibly have a pity party when so many people loved me?!!! Anyway, these great people, men and women alike, were and are wonderful and I want to thank you all for being there. 🙂
I had another little helper that day. My friend Kim. Or Disney Kim as she is known in my family. 🙂 Kim held my hand, across the miles, the whole time we were waiting for the emails to come and the news to start spreading. I seriously could not have gone through that without her. Kim was encouraging and sympathetic. She was supportive, loving and kind. She literally would not leave me alone to my sad thoughts, instead chatting with me for a couple of hours, talking me down. Thank you Kim, for being such a great friend. 🙂 You mean the world to me!
So, the bottom line is, no Moms Panel for me this year. 🙁 Am I sad about it? Most definitely. I can’t tell you how heartbroken I was. Will life go on? Most assuredly and hopefully I will grow with it. Will I get another shot at the Moms Panel? I really hope so, but that path is uncertain now. Time will tell. For now I will wait with baited breath to see who of my many friends that advanced to Round Two, move on to Round Three. I am routing for all of them, chEARing them on. 🙂 Stay tuned in the next few weeks as the 2013 Disney Moms Panel is announced!
FT&PD
Suz
As another hopeful that did not advance to Round 2 again – I know exactly how you feel! I was also very, very disappointed to say the least. The many friends I have made through the MMC helped me through my disappointment once again. What a wonderful group of friends we have been blessed with. I was also lucky enough to have Disney Mom Kim chat with me for quite a while – she should be named the Dr. Phil of the Moms Panel – what an angel she is to have as a friend! Keep your chin up – our year will come. While we wait, we have all of our MMC friends!
Right you are Janice! This whole process has brought me a world of friends that I might otherwise never have known. We are truly blessed to be a part of such a great thing and some day, one day, we will make it to!!!
Suz
Gosh, Suzanne, I didn’t realize that you were so heartbroken! Disappointed, yes, but it obviously hurt you more than I realized. How well your family knows of your devotion to all things DISNEY and appreciated your input and advice when we visited Diisneyland this past March. What can I say? I hope time heals your wounded heart,…..and that you continue to enjoy your Disney friends! xoxo Gem
Thanks Gem <3 I appreciate all of your love and support. And you can always count on me to help with the planning, but I will have to stick to Disney World as I have never been to Disneyland, LOL! Rookie mistake, no biggie <3 Love you guys,
suz
HUGE HUGS MY DEAR FRIEND!!
Thanks Kim, right back at ya <3
suz
Suzanne having applied every year since it started I really have to say this is the first year I was really upset about not making it to round two, now maybe it is because I have 4 of the best friends ever from the Disney Gals who did make it and that is making this year different for me. Sharing everything with the Gals has made every minute of this years application process that much more special, a different kind of special and if that ment not making it for me it is okay, because I have hopes and pixie dust that one (or more) of them are going to make it. You are right the friendships we have made through the Mickey Moms Super Group are special and something I would never give up, even if I was offered to be on the Moms Panel in place of being their friend!
I am sending you a big Disney Gal (((hug))) and know you are not alone.
Thanks Judy! It has helped to have the great friendships from the MMCSG this year, especially the closer bonds so many of us have together. I am with you in that this year was exceptionally hard to take, but yet it was balanced out by the news of our friends good fortune. I really hope some of the Gals and a few others from the MMCSG make it. It will be almost as good as making it ourselves 🙂 I guess we will find out soon 🙂
Suz
I soooo love everything Disney too! My dream is take my grandson to Disneyworld and hopefully very soon!
Good luck Debbie, I hope you get the chance soon 🙂
Suz
I soooo love everything Disney too, and my dreaam is too take my grandson to Disney World very soon!
I hope you get your dream! Your grandson will love it!
Suz