Leap Year | One More Disney Day At Disney Parks

Leap Year at Disneyland and Disneyworld

2012 is a Leap Year and Disneyland and Disneyworld are celebrating it with One More Disney Day! Disney Parks will be open 24 hours on Leap Day On Leap Day, for the first time ever, both Disneyland Park and Magic Kingdom Park will be open for 24 hours of wonder, imagination and magic starting February [...]

Glamping: Camping with Class

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What is glamping?  Looking at the root words, it’s camping, glamorously.  This conjures up images of large canvas tents, 4 poster beds with down duvets and 600 thread count cotton sheets sitting upon a Persian rug waiting for your personal butler to bring you breakfast in bed. I don’t know about you, but I can’t [...]

I Frickin’ Love Camping!

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I’m so happy about the upcoming Victoria Day weekend it’s not even funny!  And the kids are anxious too; they’ve been staring longingly at the trailer since December. I love pulling into a campground, setting the kids loose, unpacking the chairs and sitting down to take it all in. I love crisp sunny mornings when [...]

The oh so terrible dilemma of going on vacation without the children…

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I have a most excellent problem this week! My husband and I are taking advantage of extremely cheap last minute airfare to a hot beach destination, and we are leaving the children with their grandparents!!!! Ah, a whole week to sleep in, lay on the beach, read, scuba dive, golf, and enjoy my husband’s company [...]

Traveling With Kids: How to cope with confinement

I just came back from a wonderfully relaxing weekend in Victoria WITHOUT MY KIDS!!!! While staying with friends, I had the unique pleasure of ignoring the little voice yelling “mommy!!!” and if a baby cried, it was optional for me to pick it up! Ah good times! But it got me thinking about the special [...]