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Tad’s Favorite Moments

Monday, July 21st, 2008

All my regular readers know that Tad is a devoted Cars fan.  His favorite car?  Lightning McQueen, of course!
So imagine his delight when we watched the Pixar Play Parade at California Adventure and the first thing (and the “grand marshal” of the parade) to come down the street was this:

Tad thought he had died and […]



Disneyland Tip #2 - the special-needs child

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

As you regular readers know (and welcome to those of you who are checking in over here via Matthew!  I will be blogging about my out-of-computer meeting with him very soon!), Tad is not autistic, and he is not mentally retarded (though he may act like it sometimes).  He is, though, socially delayed and has […]



Vacation Hype

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

I’ve just experienced my first bummer moment of our Disneyland vacation, and we don’t even leave until next week.
“it’s a small world” is CLOSED until this November for renovation.  CLOSED.  As in, CAN NOT TAKE CHILDREN ON AIR CONDITIONED 15 MINUTE RIDE.
Just one question, why oh why is it being renovated now, during the summer […]



If that was him…

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

My day yesterday was spent searching for as much information as I could glean about this case in Florida.
To quote the news article from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: 
 Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son’s kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class.
After each classmate was allowed to say […]