Hotel Options for Your Disney Vacation

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Credit: Naomi@TheMagicForLess.com

When traveling to Walt Disney World or Disneyland, which is the better value? Staying in an “ onsite” hotel or an “ offsite” hotel?

Walt Disney World – When I travel (almost from coast-to-coast) to Walt Disney World, I want to make sure that I am getting the most value

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The Special Needs Life

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I’m so glad you came to see my new home on the web!  If you’ve read me for very long, you know that my sons have some challenges.  We daily live with and teach two boys whose brains were drug-affected when they were in their biological mothers’ wombs. Both are affected differently, with

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Homeschooling for Techies

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Technology. It’s everywhere today. A glance around me reveals my laptop, cell phone, and iPod Touch. There is an iPad on the couch, a movie playing through the XBox streaming Netflix on the television, and the Kinect is resting in front of the TV.  All within 8 feet of where

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I’ve Been Sumped

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This morning, we got a pretty late start with school.  Honestly, I totally let the morning get away from me, and before I knew it, we were almost to 11am without having started. And I noticed the boys were still in sweats & tshirts… the same ones they had slept in.  What can

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Farts in a Frying Pan, or How to Make Him Sit Down

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The boy. cannot. sit. down.

He attended a special K-I program when he was in kindergarten, and his teacher said he was like a fart in a frying pan. I knew what she meant, and I wasn’t offended. He gets an idea and *POOF* he’s gone to go do what ever it is

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