Something amazing happened last week. People liked one of my blog posts. I mean, they really liked it! At last glance, my little post on 10 Things to Say to the Trick-or-Treaters Dressed as Elsa was liked by over four thousand people on Facebook. Four thousand! My previous best was probably less than a hundred. Okay, [Read More]
10 Things to Say to the Trick-or-Treaters Dressed as Elsa
Warning! They’re coming. Not the walking dead. Or the Boy Scouts with their popcorn. No, the Elsas are coming. All 5,082,367 of them. How do I know there will be so many of them? A couple weeks ago I took my daughter, 7, to a Halloween event. And then I almost lost her. That’s because she [Read More]
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Mom, you look like…
Has anyone ever told you that you look like a celebrity? Every now and then, someone tells me I look like Princess Di. I’ll take it! Of course, every now and then someone tells me I look like Alice from the Brady Bunch. Hmm. But the other day my seven-year-old daughter told me I looked [Read More]
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Letting Go at Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Her small hand clenched mine as we wound our way up the hill. Forward. Left. Forward. Right. We were navigating the line to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyworld. My daughter, age 7, was not a daredevil and was hesitant to ride. But her dad, older brother and I believed that she would like it. [Read More]
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10 Signs You’ve Watched Frozen Too Many Times
The other day my ten-year-old son went into the bathroom he shares with his sister and shut the door. I presume he had to take care of some business. Moments later, his little sister, age 7, came looking for him. She noticed the closed door, knocked on it, and sang, “Do you want to build [Read More]
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Why ‘Let It Go’ from Frozen Should Win an Academy Award
The 86th Academy Awards will be held this Sunday. Will you be watching? I haven’t watched the Academy Awards in their entirety since 1999. That’s the year that they voted “American Beauty” the Best Picture. I thought that movie was terrible, so I parted ways with the Oscars. That said, I do love to check [Read More]
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Meeting Anna and Elsa from Frozen
They say a picture’s worth a 1,000 words. In my case, it’s the story BEHIND the picture that might take 1,000 words. Wait, wait. Don’t go anywhere just yet. I promise I won’t take 1,000 words. And my story is about this picture below, so you know you’re curious about the it, right? I mean, [Read More]
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My Favorite Disney World Experiences in Pictures
As I mentioned last week, my family is just back from a week at Disney World. This time, we spent 3 days at the parks and 3 days on our first-ever cruise. It was everything a trip to Disney should be–fun, exciting, tiring, etc. Below I’m sharing 3 of my favorite photos from our trip. [Read More]
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Wishing You a Funny Friday
I’m hungover. No, not from alcohol. From Disney World! We got back Monday night and I’m still feeling the effects: extreme exhaustion and disorientation due to massive laundry piles, legs that walked to Timbuktu and back, and excessive amounts of eating out. While I struggle to get back to normal, I hope these cartoons bring [Read More]
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Epic Disney Fails
It’s that time of year again: Disney time! Every winter my family escapes Michigan’s brutal winter to spend a few days frolicking with Mickey Mouse in the Florida sunshine. And every trip to Disney inevitably produces an epic fail (as my 10yo would say) when it comes to vacation memories and happiness. Here’s a quick [Read More]
