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Father’s Day: 10 Unique Gifts
Updated May 2022 September 2023 Father’s Day is coming soon and given the weird year we are in there is a good chance your usual traditions won’t be happening hopefully you are finally able to get back to your pre-Covid traditions (or at least close!). Here are 10 unique Father’s Day gifts you can get for the dad in your life without having to leave your house! Affliliate links appear in this post. I may make a commission from your purchase with no extra cost to you! 1) For the Dad joke enthusiast Do you follow @thedad on Twitter? It’s a dad joke palooza daily. If that sounds like your…
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Homeschooling with Disney-Part 2
Originally posted Spring 2020 Continuing right where my other post Homeschooling with Disney left off, here are even more ways to educate at home using Walt Disney World and Disney stories as a theme. Math & Science *Some links are affiliate links, by clicking on them and making a purchase I may make a small commission at no extra cost to you! In my last post I wrote about using Disney World as your homeschooling inspiration in art, music, literature and social studies. There are so many opportunities and ideas that I needed to make a separate post for math and science lessons! Please remember that I am not a…
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How to Homeschool with Disney
Originally posted Spring 2020 Since Covid ruined our real vacation plans, we had a Disney staycation last week. I’ve already posted about all of the amazing meals and theme nights we had, (see here) but we also had a week full of Disney activities for our homeschooling! (Some links are affiliate links and I may receive compensation if you make a purchase. Thank you for supporting my family!) The world of Disney gives us a wealth of literary, art, history, science and math homeschooling activities. Of course I consulted Pinterest for some inspiration and there ain’t a whole lot out there. One of the only Pins I found was from…
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Ohana
Originally posted Spring 2020 By clicking on an affiliate link, I may make a small amount of money at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support! Ohana means family. It is also an amazing restaurant at the Polynesian Resort in Walt Disney World. I thought it would be the perfect grand finale meal to our Disney Staycation and attempted Ohana- a Disney meal at home! While the restaurant serves breakfast and dinner, we have only dined there for dinner. It is served family style (of course) and there are 10 different menu items brought to your table. So what was I thinking trying to replicate this at…
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Please accept this rose…
Originally posted Spring 2020 “Tale as old as time…tune as old as song…” Sorry, couldn’t help myself. If you grew up in the 90’s and are even the tiniest Disney fan- you know that this rose is from “Beauty and the Beast”! In Disney World you can visit the Beast’s castle by eating at Be Our Guest restaurant in the Magic Kingdom. That’s just what we did for our sixth evening of our Disney staycation. Affiliate Links in this post, your purchase helps to support my family at no cost to you! The Disney Character Store on Amazon On our menu for the evening: The first thing I made was…
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Taquitos in Epcot
Originally posted Spring 2020 *Post may contain affiliate links TLDR: Easy taquito recipe inspired by the Mexico pavilion at Disney’s Epcot. I tweeted out a hint as to our Disney destination today, where do you think we’re going? Did you guess Epcot? Good job! Bienvenidos a Mexico! Epcot is occasionally my favorite park. Even though it sometimes gets a bad wrap as the educational or boring park, it has a lot of the best food in all of Walt Disney World. Had I been feeling more adventurous I would’ve tackled fish n’ chips or the fanciest of French food for our Epcot dinner…but we’re in month two of quarantine and…
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Pandora Pinterest Fails
TLDR: Recipes from Pandora at Disney’s Animal Kingdom So far our Disney week at home has been full of all hits, no misses….until I “took” us to Pandora in the Animal Kingdom. For starters this is what the tiny one did to my kitchen: Recovering from that, I set out to make the food of Pandora from Satu’li Canteen and Pongu Pongu. Steamed Cheeseburger Pods The beautiful picture above (compliments of http://Disneydishesblog.com) is what a cheeseburger pod from Satu’li Canteen looks like. It is a bun stuffed with ground beef, cheese, ketchup, mustard and pickles. I decided to make my own baked version of this park favorite. Cheeseburger Stuffed Crescent…
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Make Mickey Mouse Rice Krispie Treats at Home!
Disney World Staycation This post finds you smack in the middle of our Disney staycation, compliments of Covid. Each day we “visit” a different part of the Walt Disney World Resort. Our homeschooling lessons are also inspired by Disney! For the sake of readability and organization I am going to do a separate post on all of our Disney homeschooling activities. You can find them here and here. In the meantime I will continue with our daily food updates this week! Today we once again concentrated on the Magic Kingdom (see yesterday’s menu here) and made homemade Mickey Mouse Rice Krispie Treats. Later we will enjoy dinner “at” The Plaza.…
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Our Disney Staycation-Day 3 Sleepy Hollow & Casey’s Corner
I hope you have been enjoying our “travels” to Walt Disney World as we stay in the safety of our quarantined home. The kids are fully on board with the fun and even made themselves Magic Bands today! (Magic Bands can be worn in WDW to access your resort room, pay for items and many more functions.) In today’s edition we are focusing on food again! We will be eating our meals from Sleepy Hollow and Casey’s Corner in the Magic Kingdom. First up-lunch. Sleepy Hollow Sleepy Hollow is a quick service/snack restaurant in Liberty Square of the Magic Kingdom. We fell in love with the place on our first…
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Making Magic-One Meal at a Time
Originally posted Spring 2020 Since we can’t go to Disney in person I am bringing the Disney magic home to us! After our super successful brunch we “traveled” to Disney Springs for dinner to eat at Chicken Guy. See my awesome & realistic decor below: L has been obsessed with Guy Fieri for a very long time. He was so looking forward to going to his restaurant during our trip. It wasn’t even in our original plan but L was so insistent we made room in the schedule. We’ve even watched YouTube videos reviewing the menu items! Luckily for me, the menu is pretty simple and easy to replicate. We…
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