The only reason to have kids is to create clone humans to take your place when you kick off.

Any other reason to breed pales in comparison to nature’s need to reproduce your genes. Unconditional love, feelings of worthiness, premature ejaculation, and one-upping your sister all fall into a distant 2nd place for reasons to spawn.

Patrick and I are raising our girls for us to each have our own Mini Me, as you can see in this photo I took this past weekend at Star Tours.

We’re successfully raising goofball, Star Wars-loving, Disney World-going nerds who will do pretty much anything for a laugh to replace us when we die.

You’re welcome, universe.

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How many posts can I publish in a row that are just pictures of my kids? This makes 4 (unsponsored) posts in a row where the main idea of my story is pictures of my kids.

This is telling of something, but I’m not sure of what, unless it’s just of me being extra super lazy while I write elsewhere.

Or, maybe I’m just doing you a favor by giving you a post that you don’t have to read.

Consider these pictures exercise for your eyes and not your brain.

These are the nice things I do for you people.

You? Are welcome.

But seriously, how cute are my girls running with their tongues out?

Yes, I am asking.

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This llama is the most famous llama in all of the World of Llamas. He lives at the Affection Section of Rafiki’s Planet Watch at Disney World inside of Animal Kingdom. If you’re lucky, he’ll let you pet him. On the day we made friends, he had a little something caught in his teeth. It happens to the best of us.

Naturally, he’s my new best friend, and I’m making him my muse.

Dusty the Llama was the model for Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove. He was totally unaffected by my own celebrity, but I guess that’s tit-for-tat because his movie is one of the few Disney movies I’ve never seen.

I’m thinking the animators were high on opiates when they drew Kuzco because THIS llama… (...)
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My Gorgeous Mama

I have never been so ashamed to be my mother’s daughter.

Sure, she may take to the dance floor doing her best Elaine Dance imitation.

Sure, she may have one or two or three too many glasses of her favorite wine every now and then.

Sure, she may talk your ear off about the best tile that goes with the best soap dispenser and how she bought the wrong one, took it back, got a different soap dispenser only to realize it didn’t match the bathroom tile like she had intended.

But until today, I’ve never been so embarrassed to be my mother’s daughter than I am now that she posted this on my Facebook wall:

In case you can’t read that graphic, my mom basically belittles every web designer, web professional, and internet-savvy individual the world over with her one simple line,

“Sorry – I LOVE comic sans! It’s so friendly – and I’m not a Fortune 500 company!”

It’s like she’s taken a sword, dipped it in a vat of Witch Hazel, stabbed me through my proverbial internet-beating heart, stripped me of my dignity, then taped a letter on my chest typed in Comic Sans defending her actions.

Dear Mom and every other mother,
For the love of everything I hold dearly to my internetty heart, please stop using Comic Sans. The world thanks you.
Love,
The Comic Sans Must Die Army

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I have a friend.

A very dear friend.

Mandi has a wonky heart. No, I take that back. Her heart is bullshit. Her bullshit heart has put her through 5 open-heart surgeries which I hear are very serious, the last one leaving her in a 3-week-long coma, a wheelchair, and intensive physical therapy.

That was 5 years ago, today.

5 years ago TODAY, Mandi was rolled out of a hospital after open-heart surgery left her in a coma for 3 weeks, a pacemaker in her chest, and an actual *tick* in her heart. I heard it today. Her heart actually *ticks.* Not only is that weird, IT’S FRIGGIN AMAZING SCIENCE.

Thanks be to the sweet sweet Baby Jeebus and Oprah that this amazing science exists to keep Mandi alive and brought her to my life.

A little background on Mandi:

She’s a Disney nutball, complete with 3 Disney-themed tattoo, one being a hidden Mickey. mmhmmm…

She birthed a baby 6-1/2 years ago that doctors said she’d never have.

She adopted a special needs baby 3 years ago.

She lives in podunk O-HI-O and drives 4-wheelers.

She started running a few months ago.

She lost a lot of weight in just the last few months.

She’s beautiful.

TODAY, Mandi ran her first ever 5K at Disney World at the Expedition Everest Challenge with Patrick. She trained, she worked hard, and today, she ran across the finish line of a 5K, complete with obstacles at her favorite place in the whole world.

I can’t be more proud of someone I love.

She is amazing. She is my inspiration.

I love her.

I want you to love her, too.

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We visited Epcot’s Flower & Garden Festival last weekend, and just because we neither flower nor garden, doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate the beauty of what Disney does every year. Camera in hand, I took a few photos. Look at these kids – how could I not photograph them?

For more information on visiting Disney World, check out my new Mouse Genius website!

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I’m super duper mega sugar-coated chocolate-dipped ooey gooey jittery EXCITED to announce MouseGenius.com to you!

Last week, I teased you and now I’m pleasing you.

Mouse Genius is a site with smart insider tips and information for a visit to Walt Disney World. Whether you’re a seasoned Disney guest or a brand newbie to Disney World, the Mouse Geniuses are telling secrets about how to make the most of your visit.

PLEASE to go visit my new site. PLEASE to share my new site.

I think it’s awesome. I want you to think it’s awesome.

If you have feedback for me about the site, GIVE IT TO ME.

If you have questions for me or our Mouse Geniuses about visiting Disney World, PLEASE ask here!

HUZZAH!

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I’m looking for some Disney World-philes to contribute to my new blog.

If I know you (or you can send me a link to your blog), you’re a decent writer, & you want to get paid, let me know in the comments.

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You know how when you get involved in something new (like a lover or new flavor of potato chips) and you can’t do anything else besides think about and work on that something new? I think it’s called “obsession” but I don’t want that perfume association in my head, because the last thing I heard about perfume, it was Lady Gaga’s blood and semen scented eau de parfum. That’s just not a visual or smell I want in my brain.

Since I was last seen here, I told you that I was starting a “tips and tricks of Disney World” website. Dudes, I’ve done it.

A teaser. Cute, right?

And it’s FANTASTIC.

That’s not just my self-centered opinion, but the people I’ve shown and asked to be a part of it think it’s great, too. I’m also going to be paying them for their work, but I’m pretending they like it even without the promise of money.

It will be launching next week, but for now, I have a teaser.

By the way, I hate when people say, “I’m doing this amazing thing but I’m going to keep it a secret and build your anticipation because it will increase my traffic for when you come back checking over and over for the big announcement but really it won’t be that big and probably won’t affect you at all but it’s important to me and I like having the power of anticipation over you.”

Or something.

So yeah, that’s what’s going on with me. A new, fancy, different-from-the-rest, Disney World site. A place to find answers to questions you have about visting the Mouse House.

For now, if you have questions for me and the writers I’m plying with promises of money, please leave them here in the comments. Or, if you’re just super excited to see what I’m developing, you can comment your squeeeeeing. Or or, just tell me I’m doing something good with my time and I’ll make million$.

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