A\N: Here is the next chapter. Thank you again so much for all of the help and encouragement I've beet getting from fellow POstables on Twitter.

Disclaimer: I don't own SSD or anything Disney owns.

Spoilers: None

Warnings: None

Chapter 26

Matthew walked ahead of his mother and siblings as they walked through the Denver branch of the USPS. He knew exactly where he was going and knew as long as his mother could see him it was okay that he walked ahead of her. He couldn't contain his excitement. His siblings were excited about the trip, but he was excited about something entirely different. Matthew stopped in front of his destination and waited impatiently for the few minutes it took for his mother and siblings to catch up.

"Can we go in now?" Matthew asked his mother as he touched the door handle. "Please." He added on after quickly remembering his manners.

"Yes," Shane confirmed, "You remember the rules right. Let Daddy, Aunt Rita and Uncle Norman work if they need to. Daddy hired a new woman too; her name is Ms. Master's. She's only been at the DLO for two weeks, so she'll probably want to work. You three behave." Shane told her children as she opened the door to the DLO.

As the family were leaving tomorrow to go to Disney World Shane had decided to take the day off to get some much-needed last minute things completed. After picking Julia up from Joe's and Matthew and Lucas up from school she took the kids to the DLO to get stamps. Disney had a mail delivery system and Oliver had been attempting to get the children interested in writing letters and postcards. Matthew was already excited as he loved letters already. It was Lucas and Julia who wondered why they had to send letters and postcard if it wasn't fun.

A young woman with short brown hair and brown eyes turned around in her chair as she saw the children enter the office, "I think your Daddy will be back soon. He was just going to look for something. Your Uncle Norman and Aunt Rita are still out but they should hopefully be back soon." She explained, "I'm Ellie. Your Daddy just hired me. I share some of the work your Mommy does. Looking people and information up on the computers.

"Mommy and Daddy said never call adults by their first name," Matthew informed her, "Mommy said your name is Ms. Master's. That means you're not married."

Ellie smiled, "You must be Matthew," She saw the boy nod his head, "Which means you're Lucas," She looked at the identical boy standing next to Matthew, "And you're Julia. If your Mommy doesn't mind, I have some things I think you'll like."

"No, go ahead I don't mind," Shane told her. She still didn't know much about Ellie however she dd know she had nieces and nephews. She was obviously drawn to children and vice versa considering how her children were all huddled around her with interest waiting to see what she had.

"My brother works in the U.S. Navy which means he lives on a large ship. I write to him and to his son and daughters. My nieces and nephew are three, five and seven. They love Disney and so I have these," She poured out some Disney themed stamps from a bag. "I heard you were going to do some postcard writing at Disney World. I thought this would help."

"No, that's boring," Lucas shook his head, "I don't want to do that. Mommy can text on her phone its faster."

"It is," Ellie confirmed, "But I bet you could have characters sign postcards for you. You can also use sticker letters," She got out of her purse three bags of sticker letters. "I always found this way more fun than writing. I always liked to have words with different coloured letters.

"I like blue and green," Lucas took one of the bags. He studied it and then saw a Hulk stamp, "I love the Avengers. I can write about superheroes." He started to get excited, "And maybe Star Wars too. Matthew can help."

"Now those sound like very fun ways to send postcards. You three can each keep some sticker letters and you can pick out three stamps. I know your Daddy was going to get you some other stamps, but I thought having some Disney ones would be nice."

"Yes, I think they would be," Oliver responded as he walked back unto the room.

Matthew took the sticker letters and the Hulk stamp and rushed ahead of his siblings to his father. "Daddy, I'm going to write to Grandpa about superheros. Look what Ms. Master's gave us," He held up the packet of sticker letters and then the stamp.

"Well that's very nice of her. I hope you said thank you."

"I will," Lucas rushed back to Ellie and looked tough the stamps with his siblings.

Oliver looked at Shane and they both shared the same look. They were wondering how Ellie had managed to get Lucas interested in writing letters in fifteen minutes, when they'd both been trying for two weeks.

"Daddy, can I see your stamps?" Matthew walked over to his parents, "I have a Winnie the Pooh stamp," He smiled, "I want real USPS stamps now." He peered happily at the stamps Oliver had brought, "These are official," He began examining them.

"So are Ms. Master's they're part of a children's Disney collection," Oliver informed his son. "We're still going to find a special stamp to start your collection like Uncle Norman's." Oliver told him.

"I want a really special one," Matthew kept looking through the stamps, "Something unique."

"We'll find you something," Shane told her son, "I'm sure there are Disney Stamps that you'll find interesting. Maybe a Star Wars one." Each child was told they were allowed one big present while at Disney, Matthew wanted a stamp, Julia wanted a Flounder doll and Lucas wanted a customized toy robot from the Star Wars area at Hollywood Studios.

"Mommy, Daddy, look! It's Nemo and Ariel and Flounder! I want a Flounder doll to play with Nemo!" Julia ran excitedly up to her holding out a stamp of Nemo and one of Ariel.

"Wow! Those are great." Oliver smiled at his daughter. She was very interested in anything to do with underwater creatures. "Go say thank you to Ms. Masters."

"Ssh, we need to be quiet at first," Lucas instructed Matthew and Julia as they crept up to their parent's bedroom. It was still quite early in the morning and the children knew not to disturb their parents unless it was Christmas or a birthday or another important holiday. However, none of the children could sleep anymore and they decided to sneak into the room when Julia had shown up at her brother's bedroom half an hour earlier.

Matthew silent opened up the door and as the children saw their parents still sleeping, they crept into the room. Climbing up onto the bed they all began to jump. "It's Disney Day! It's Disney Day!"

Shane and Oliver had wondered if the children would do something like this, so they weren't surprised when they woke up to not so quiet voices outside their door at five AM.

"Yes, it's Disney Day but it's also very early. I know you are excited, but you need to try to get some more sleep. You do not want to be tired when we arrive at the report tonight. If we have time we can go for a short swim before bedtime."

"I want to sleep! But I can't! "The sun's awake! So, I'm awake!" Julia dramatically fell onto the bed as she directly quoted a line from Frozen.

"Well miss Little Mermaid you better fall asleep because the pool is Nemo themed so is the pool,' Shane explained to her daughter.

"But..." Lucas began to protest but his father interputed.

"Go back to your rooms. Try to go back to sleep and do not play." Oliver told the children. "You stay in your rooms until your Mother or I knock on your door. Do you understand?"

"Yes," All three children nodded their heads as they left the room.

"How long do you think they'll sleep for?" Shane asked her husband as she ran a hand over her face, "I'm exhausted but I don't think I'll be able to sleep much more. Hopefully once we arrive at the hotel the kids will settle down enough to sleep tonight, if they don't it'll be a long day tomorrow."

"I agree, once we're at the resort we should calm them down as much as possible so they can get enough sleep to enjoy Magic Kingdom. I do not want them to be grumpy all day. I understand this is an exciting trip, but I still expect them to behave." Oliver explained/

"Oh, Disney should be fun. I think it'll tech you just how well-behaved our children are," Shane chuckled a little.

"Yes, I'm well aware children are often spoiled at Disney World or given toys when they do not deserve them. I do not agree with that, I am very much looking forward to seeing how happy the children will be. Meeting all of the characters and riding the rides, I do love it when they're happy."

"Mommy, Daddy!" Julia called from outside the door, "I can't sleep. I'm to excited for Nemo!"

Shane sighed, "I'll go downstairs with her and play some quiet games or read. I need to do more packing anyways. Only five more hours until we need to be at the airport."

TBC

A\N1: I'm sorry for not having Rita and Norman in this chapter. I tried but I found it to hard with having to write for so many character talking. Don't worry though Rita and Norman did return in time to see the children before Shane took them back home.

A\N 2: I hope you liked the chapter. Please remember to review.