Disney
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How was your weekend? It’s a holiday weekend here (and my girls have a bonus day off on Tuesday), but my Labor Day plans mostly consist of grocery shopping, so I’m just focusing on Friday through Sunday like usual. One area of fun that I’d like to learn to do better is taking advantage of
We’ve been home from Disney for almost three weeks, and I’ve been reflecting on how our anticipating, experiencing, and remembering selves experience a trip. In general, my remembering self thinks about the trip more fondly than my anticipating and experiencing selves do. So one way to increase the fun of a vacation is to really
Disney snacks are legendary. You can declare your love of Disney snacks via t-shirt, tote, toy, and even Loungefly backpack. Yes, you can bring your own food and drinks into the park. But you’re at Disney—enjoy yourself. Save the Larabars for the drive home when you need something to bridge the gap between chocolate mousse
Our family loves Disney World. My husband grew up going regularly with his family. I went a few times as a kid, and my mom and I made annual trips to California for a few years after I turned 18 that always included an open-to-close 30,000-step Disneyland day. My husband and I honeymooned at Disney
How was your weekend? Did you make time for fun? This weekend had ups and downs—the biggest down being that we had to come home from Disney World (though we did spend Saturday morning at EPCOT). It was, as previously mentioned, really, really hot, but it’s hot here at home, too! And we don’t have
For the last two years, our family has gone to Disney World the second week of July. And it’s been really, really hot. In fact, it was so hot the first year I swore I’d never go back in July. But our remembering selves are generally a lot happier than our experiencing selves. So back
Author and podcaster Gretchen Rubin is known for her research on happiness and her self-identified Secrets of Adulthood. (As an Enneagram One, I adored her books The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. Increasing your happiness, but with rules to know if you succeeded? Sign me up.) One of her Secrets is “What’s fun for
Most Fridays, we have family game night. We’ve been doing this for over a year—ever since our toddler’s bedtime got to be too disruptive to family movie night. (We were also running out of movies to watch that were actually fun for the whole family.) My husband and I weren’t sure how it would go.
