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Walt Disney World has begun testing a new feature in My Disney Experience, which should make it easier to find must-buy merchandise…in theory. Here we’ll share the news and offer commentary about these updates, and the latest on MDX updates. This is actually the sixth or seventh round of modernizations to the My Disney Experience […]

Our free Disneyland crowd calendars cover best & worst dates to visit in 2025 & 2026. This helps you choose when to go and days to avoid for shorter lines & lower wait times at Disney California Adventure and Disneyland. These monthly guides offer info about ride closures & what’s new, events, weather, prices, and

Magic Kingdom is widely considered the Christmas park at Walt Disney World. This guide to the holiday season at MK covers decorations, ride overlays and entertainment in November and December 2025. Here are our recommendations for making the most of your time, dates to visit & avoid, and special dates during which you can see the special

Gingerbread houses are being built at Walt Disney World for Christmas 2025, with new and returning lifesize displays in the hotels. This post covers details of those, plus the special holiday foods coming to the resorts. Before we dig in, it’s worth mentioning that as of November 3rd, decorations are already starting to go up

November and December 2025 are going to be busy months at Walt Disney World. School recesses, long weekends and full week breaks cause crowd levels to spike, and can catch guests by surprise. We’re anticipating dates with high wait times in Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios–the worst in 6 months! This post

Walt Disney World has shared an update on the fan-favorite 2025 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays, quietly confirming the return of something we anxiously await all year long: Figment’s Ugly Christmas Sweater. And this holiday season, there’s going to be an entire merchandise collection dedicated to the design! Here’s a first look, along with

Have you heard of Sarcopenia? I think it sounds a bit like an Italian dessert. Image Credit” BBC Good Food Turns out, it’s not a yummy pastry dusted with icing sugar – it’s the scientific word for muscle loss. Yes, apparently there’s a word for the slow, sneaky shrinking of our once-mighty biceps that nobody

Retirement? That suspiciously beige-tinted word isn’t in my vocabulary. I’m not winding down, putting my feet up or disappearing into the background like a well-behaved woman in a retirement brochure. I’m not picking up any knitting needles any time soon. For the record, I have nothing against knitting. I know it takes patience, precision and

I know I keep saying this but how fast is this year whizzing by? Here’s my April Faffing – things I’ve enjoyed reading, watching, buying and doing – basically everything that’s brought me joy this month. SHOPPING 🛍️ My purchases continue to be mostly still around interiors this month. I’ve been putting some more finishing

I felt I had to write a bit more about parenting and being mothers to kidults after my post about my Mother & Son Escape has proved to be one of my most popular so far. It obviously resonated with mums of sons just like me. So today I want to talk about another aspect