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Dr. Seuss

The Lido Deck on the Carnival Freedom
Dr. Seuss is on the Loose! A Seuss-tastical Voyage on the Carnival Freedom

Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! The cheerful, hopeful words of Dr Seuss’ Oh the places you’ll go! resonate as we step from the port of Galveston, TX onto the deck of the recently refurbished Carnival Freedom. A happy sign invites us
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Oh! The Places You’ll Go! A Dr. Seuss Library Scavenger Hunt

One of the perks that go along with becoming a parent is the opportunity to relive a piece of our childhood – through books. We get to dig out our favourites from when we were small and spend bedtime after bedtime showing our kids what makes those favourites worth reading
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Family Travel: Universal Orlando Resort

Our family goes to California every year to hang out with my snowbirder parents and we’ve done both LEGO Land and Disneyland (twice) but for some reason, we’ve never made it out to Universal Studios. But when we went down to Florida this January to visit relatives our daughter begged
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Dinosaur DVDs
The Best Educational TV Shows for Kids

Well it’s almost over folks; the school year is coming to a close. And I have expectations for the summer. Expectations that the kids will play outside nicely, spending the lazy hazy days of summer playing tag, running through the sprinkler, having a round of neighborhood hide & seek and
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Seuss Books
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Were he still alive, March 2 would have been Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel’s 109th birthday! I was rummaging through the bookshelves looking for a few of our favorite Dr. Seuss books when I realized that we had lost our copy of The Thinks You Can Think. While not my personal
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