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Remember, back in the day, when you could just show up at Walt Disney World, ride the rides, eat nice meals, have a great time, and go home? Yeah, me neither. For as long as I’ve been planning Walt Disney World vacations (approximately 7, 459 years), I’ve had to get up at the crack of…
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I cannot remember when I first heard of killer bees, but I know I was young – a little kid – and I was terrified. I remember hearing that they were coming to the United States from wherever killer bees lived at the time, and I had visions of armies of bees, rowing tiny…
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My family has some weird food tendencies. The first weird food thing I can remember was my sister, Bean, who would skip tomato sauce on her pasta in favor of Russian dressing – which she also put on steak. Blech. Then there was Brighid, who for the first nine years of school took a peanut…
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The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of itemizing is a bill. Someone who wants me to pay something lays it all out there for me – food, dry cleaning, car repairs. Itemizing is something I always associate with something negative. No more. It’s time to itemize the good things.…
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There is no better place to be in life than Happy. When I was a kid, I had a very definite opinion of what Happy was, where I would be in order to find it, what my life circumstances would have to be for me to achieve it. Looking back over the nearly 50 years…
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Naming a child is a very personal thing. Regardless, you will find that this very personal choice is one of the few that you will make in life that is subject to so much comment and criticism. Everyone has an opinion when it comes to babies, but when it comes to babies’ names, everyone thinks…
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Funny. There is a huge range when it comes to what people consider funny, but for me, John Pinette was it. He was a comedian I felt like I could let my girls enjoy, he poked more fun at himself than at others, and his comedy wasn’t pejorative or hurtful. It was just funny.…
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I am on a quest to make as many home cooked dinners as i can. I am approaching the two week mark since I started, and while some days were “cheater” days (we went out to lunch once and had left overs for dinner, and my parents took us out to dinner one night, and…
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Remember a little while ago, I mentioned the end of my love affair with Starbucks over a little heartbreak we like to call “hacking”? Someone got into my Starbucks account and began charging Starbucks gift cards to the tune of $100 a pop. Not that I can blame them, of course, as I myself…
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