New Experience #3: A Thrill Ride that I Dreaded

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This is part of a two week series on Many Little Blessings where either I or my family try something that is a new experience and then reflect on it.  Check out all of the new experiences. —– The New Experience This might be cheating a little bit, but this is my blog and I get to make the rules, I guess.  This is not something that I did because of this series.  Instead, it was something that I did {Read More}

A Reminder of the Goodness of People (aka Giving Up a Bus Seat)

reminder of the good in people

While we were in Disney World in December, we made heavy use of the Disney transportation system since we were staying at an onsite resort.  We spent just over a week at the parks, so this meant we had plenty of chances to ride buses, monorails, and even boats.  There were times when the seats were plentiful, but more often than not, we found ourselves riding at peak times when we were asked to get cozy and make new friends. {Read More}

10 Adventures from Our Magical Vacation

our magical vacation

I kind of left you guys hanging, I feel.  I shared after I got back from vacation that I had taken a vacation.  But, then I took the holidays off the blogs and I never shared about the vacation.  Top Ten Tuesday seemed like the perfect opportunity to share just ten of our big adventures from our early December vacation. 10 Adventures from Our Magical Vacation 1. We ate breakfast in a castle with princesses. 2. We whizzed through the {Read More}

Free Dining Plans at Disney World: Late Fall 2012

chef mickey dessert

I’m briefly coming out of my blog break (I wrote most of the things on the blog in July during the end of June) to share some information about the upcoming Free Dining offer from Walt Disney World.  I know that there were many people that had a lot of questions about how we managed to get all of our food free last year on our trip and how they could get free dining as well, so I couldn’t help {Read More}

7 Quick Takes: March 9, 2012 (Vol. 116)

~ 1 ~ A few weeks ago, I shared that I had gone back and forth about whether to get a keyboard for my iPad.  It was really kind of ridiculous, but I just backed out every time right before I would buy one.  I also shared that Eric finally just surprised me with one, because he’s a swell guy like that. I’ve been thanking my lucky stars that Eric picked up this Logitech keyboard.  Seriously — this thing is {Read More}

7 Quick Takes: January 13, 2012 (Vol. 108)

Pam Grace Creations Growth Chart

~ 1 ~ News flash: I’m short. I never like to think of myself as short, but it’s becoming more and more obvious to me.  You see, once upon a time, I was tall.  For several years in elementary school, I was the tallest person in my class.  I still kind of think of myself like that.  I like to forget that it really just meant that I started growing sooner than most people.  As a matter of fact, I’m {Read More}

What We Ate Using the Walt Disney World Dining Plan (Days 5 – 8)

Cinnamon Roll

Yesterday, I shared what we ate on the first four days of our stay at Walt Disney World on their Disney Dining Plan.  Now, I’m going to finish up with our last few days. Day Five on Disney Disney Plan Park We Visited: Animal Kingdom Breakfast Rix Cafe (Coronado Springs) – We made ourselves get up earlier than we had been doing for the rest of the week, knowing that morning would be the best time to see the animals.  {Read More}

What We Ate at Walt Disney World on the Standard Disney Dining Plan (Days 1 – 4)

chef-mickey-dessert

I was really intimidated about the Disney Dining Plan before we went.  But, since we were so lucky to have booked a package during a time when we got a free dining plan (for each person) for our entire stay, it was something that I was going to have to figure out.  One great help for me was my friend Nony’s site, What We Ate with Mickey.  What We Ate with Mickey  is a journey through what their family of {Read More}

The One Where I Tell You What I Really Did in December

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That sounds all dark and mysterious, doesn’t it?  It’s like I’m going to tell you that we didn’t really go to Disney World.  Rest assured, we really did spend a week in December doing this… What I couldn’t really share until now, however, is what we did for the rest of December.  (Not because I have become a secret agent, mind you.  But, I just don’t like to post about our travels until we’re safely back home.) At the end {Read More}

10 More Tips I Learned From My Trip to Walt Disney World

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I can’t help it!  I just learned so much on my trip to Disney World.  I had to share another set of tips, in addition to the 10 Things I Learned at Walt Disney World from last week.  In fact, I may just already be having my eyes fixed on another trip in the future. 1. Bring lots of different colors of pens or Sharpie markers for your child’s (or your) autograph book.  We didn’t do this, so all of {Read More}