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- Where Do You Stay?
A question we get A LOT about Disneyland is, “Where do you stay?” We’ve stayed at a variety of hotels: The Anaheim Howard Johnson: A decent place within authentic walking distance from the park. Has a GREAT kid’s pool, but the rooms are just fine with plain old non-pillow topped mattresses. The Candy Cane Inn:Nice […]
- Disneyland
Bradley and I often say we don’t go to Disneyland for the attractions as much as we go for the ambiance. Just being in a place that proclaims to be the ‘Happiest Place on Earth’ soothes us. It’s all there: entertainment,thrills and enough to do to keep bust for days with very little need for […]
- A Very Merry Unbirthday!
Bradley has a dreaded December birthday. Most people assume that Christmas is a pretty bad day, and it is, I have a brother with a Christmas birthday. But Bradley’s birthday falls on December 29th, between Christmas and New Years, when nobody wants to party or shop! When we got together he made a request that […]
- Hot Tub Barbie Party
Lately when the kids are in the hot tub so are the Barbies. The Barbies (and, of course their pet dolphins) splash, cavort and play. Everything was going along swimmingly until I was watering patio plants and tidying and came upon this sordid scene: GASP!!! Apparently the summer sun got a little too hot for […]
- Musee’ de Littlejohnesque Frigidaire
Our kids are artists. Both of them spend hours and hours sitting at the kitchen table with reams of paper, crayons, markers, pens and pencils. Of course this pleases the Papa Bear, who had the same drive as a child to create, draw and imagine. He still has not lost that, and has passed that […]
