not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. – John Milton Well, as many of you know, Jim has been struggling with his eyesight for a number of years.  It started back in 2002, and has alternated between some good days, some bad days, some awful days.  We have finally hit a point where…

My plans for the day included nothing more than dinner at Kouzzina.  I figured we’d probably hit a park, and since my friend Dori and her daughter Aviva are also here at Disney World, I had assumed we’d meet up and take all the kids together. Then Jim enters with what he likes to call…

I blissfully go about life getting stuff done when it needs to get done.  As a result, I do all of my best packing last minute.  If I pack too soon, I start second guessing what I need to bring, why I need to bring it, and end up packing way more than I need. …

I get asked this question.  A lot. And it surprises me every time! This is my youngest daughter, Granuaile, during her very first visit to Walt Disney World.  She was four months old at the time, and of course the memories of this vacation are not her memories.  She will look at the pictures with…

Aunt Charlotte’s Candy 5 W. Maple Avenue Merchantville, NJ 08109 856-662-0058 I have to tell you, I’m late to the table when it comes to Aunt Charlotte’s Candies.  My dad used to live in Clementon, NJ, and he was a diehard fan of Giambri’s Candies – a Clementon favorite.  Every year for Easter and Christmas,…

Many years ago, when we were young, ambitious, and with new love bursting in our hearts, we decided to test our parenting skills on something we thought we couldn’t damage as much as we might a miniature person.  We went, just after the holidays, to the local pound, and we found a puppy.  We fell…

You already know I’m a big fat ass.  I have photographic proof that food has always been my best friend. I was criticized the other day by someone because I said something unflattering about the Disney Dining Plan.  First they told me that it’s because I lost weight that I feel obligated to condemn fat…

So my second visit to Sanaa was for Jim’s birthday.  We don’t often get to celebrate our birthdays without children, seeing as how we have a whole bunch of them, but Jim’s birthday happened to fall the same weekend as the Expedition Everest 5K, and we had a sitter back in Jersey with the girls. …

We know.  We know before we are born who our mothers are.  We rely on our mothers for our very existence, and from within the womb, babies can respond to their mothers’ voices.  There is no doubt who a baby’s mother is. Fathers are sometimes a whole ‘nother story.  If you have’t seen them, there…