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GraNana

“I can’t want to..” It’s what her mother used to say and we all giggled and would say, oh, Grandma Edna, Stop. But when my Gra-Nana would say it, it kind of broke my heart. I’m not young anymore and now I understand this sentence. She has always been Nana to me but when I became a Mama, she became Gra-Nana because now she had the beautiful title of GREAT Nana. Over the past few years, Gra-Nana has changed, she’s not that perky self she used to be. She has Alzheimer’s Disease. Her words are not as fluent as they once were. I see frustration in her when she wants…

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Do you runDisney?

As our family motto states (and borrowed from the late-great Walt Disney): Keep Moving Forward, I run. I run to clear my mind. I run to analyze my thoughts. I run to brainstorm new art projects. I run to think of new ‘Disney-fied’ (yes, this is a term I use even though it is not…

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runDisney… I’ve been Hulk Smashed!

Last month I had the privilege to attend the 2014 Disney Social Media Moms Celebration Conference held at the Disneyland Resort.    It was my first conference and I was so nervous – I felt like I was attending the Disney Parks Moms Panel Training Weekend again only this time add a couple hundred to the mix. Being that it was at my second home- Disneyland, I knew I was fine because “I got that!” But not knowing what blogger conferences really consisted of scared me, and then not knowing any of the bloggers besides the other Moms Panelists and Gayle, ummm yeah I was a bit overwhelmed. I’m completely new…

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