Ryan, the boys and I will likely be becoming a member of my dad and mom and my sister’s household on a Disney cruise subsequent week and to say we’re psyched is a severe understatement! (Sure, the timing of our cruise is one week after the boys’ spring break, however we needed to go along with dates that labored for our complete household and their colleges have been completely wonderful with it, particularly since they nearly ever miss.) We can’t watch for this cruise and have been bursting with pleasure as we’ve been packing all of the issues, planning our outfits for pirate night time, assembling “pixie mud” prizes, ordering door magnets and extra.
We now have by no means performed an enormous prolonged household trip like this with all the youngsters (aside from our fall mountain weekends which were on pause) and since I’ve solely heard rave opinions about Disney cruises, I can’t wait to expertise the magic with my very favourite individuals. I’m hoping to share a recap of our cruise as soon as we’re again however within the meantime in case you have any last-minute Disney cruise suggestions or any particular stuff you’d wish to see me embody in my cruise recap, please let me know.
And now let’s dive proper to my weekly roundup of favorites, Issues I’m Loving Friday fashion! I hope you have got a beautiful weekend, my buddies!
Issues I’m Loving Friday #588
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Disney Cruise Prep
We’ve performed two journeys to Disney World with our youngsters (you might even see our recaps right here: Final Minute Disney Trip and right here: First Time at Magic Kingdom with Youngsters) and we’ve slowly picked up on the truth that there are little (very elective) issues you are able to do to “improve the magic” of your Disney expertise. Apparently the identical factor applies to Disney cruises and we’ve had enjoyable studying about a few of them. A number of issues we’re doing:
Disney Pin Boards: Our children acquired SO into accumulating Disney pins throughout a previous Disney journey (pin buying and selling stations are situated everywhere in the parks and resorts), and apparently pin buying and selling is alive and properly on Disney cruises. I ordered pin boards for all of our households off Etsy and an assortment of pins (when you purchase all of your pins at Disney, you’ll spend a gazillion {dollars} — Etsy has pins for method much less) and scorching glued super-strong magnets to the again of our boards to allow them to adhere to our steel cruise ship room door. Our boys are already so, so psyched to wander cruise ship halls, swapping pins.
Door Magnets: Apparently cruise ship room door magnets are a factor and I ordered a bit pack of Disney-themed magnets for our door so as to add to the enjoyable!
Pirate Night time: Moderately than a standard formal night time on a cruise, Disney does a pirate night time and I’ve been advised repeatedly by individuals who have gone on Disney cruises that dressing up just isn’t obligatory however one thing it looks like everybody actually embraces! Our boys are nonetheless very a lot within the pirate-loving part of life, so we’re positively packing our pirate costumes. (I could or will not be dressing up as Mr. Smee.)
We’re an enormous air fryer household and use our air fryer a number of instances every week — really like 5x every week most weeks. I choose it to the oven as a result of it heats up soooo quick (no preheating time) and offers fish and meat a barely crispy exterior (just like grilling) however with a juicy inside. We’ve been out there for an even bigger air fryer for our household as our earlier one was best for cooking for 2 individuals. I additionally wished a glass air fryer this time round for a myriad of causes (non-toxic and the power to see my meals because it cooks being the highest two).
I’ve been extremely proud of the Boswell Glass Air Fryer I purchased a bit greater than a month in the past. It permits me to cook dinner a number of meals without delay (hooray for now not cooking hen thighs and salmon in batches) and I really like that the bottom and rack inside the air fryer are each dishwasher protected!! My solely knock is that I believe the pre-sets for meals barely overcook meals so I’d suggest following your individual air fryer recipes or earlier air fryer data (or simply examine your meals on occasion). I really like this factor!!
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Melty Bead Keychain Crafting
Chase has an economics truthful developing at his college on the finish of April and was tasked with making roughly 25 objects to “promote” to classmates for faux cash. He got here up with the concept to make melty bead keychains and didn’t have any hassle coercing his little brothers and me into serving to him as a result of all of us discover melty bead tasks oddly stress-free.
