Category: NHL

Aloha Friday: Lost and Found

Aloha Friday, Disney, DisneySMMoms, NHL, Travel

Packing is always a stressful endeavor.  Packing for a return trip from Disney World is especially stressful.  And what happens when you are packing some remaining items early in the morning after getting way too little sleep when you need to leave to return home in an hour and a child’s favorite stuffed animal is missing?  Apparently, that’s when my brain locks up.

NHL has a "travel buddy" that he takes with him on every trip.  It’s not something he sleeps with every night at home, but he likes taking it with him on vacations.  Unfortunately, this seemed to have disappeared a few nights ago and we only realized it as we were ready to leave.  Fortunately, when I called the front desk of Disney’s Yacht Club, they mentioned that they never throw anything out.  Unfortunately, their lost and found department didn’t open until 8:30am and our Magical Express pickup was at 7:30am.  So I left a very coherent voicemail message.

Ok, who am I kidding?  I left a semi-rambling description of the lost item followed by my name and my phone number.  Well, I tried to leave my phone number.  Remember that "brain lock" from before?  Well, that happened.  Suddenly, I couldn’t remember my number.  B tried to help by giving me her number to tell them, but that only confused my locked-up brain more.  We hung up (feeling completely embarrassed, of course) and I composed myself.  I looked at B’s phone number on my phone as I called back and left a better message.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think we’d ever see the buddy again.  I figured it was gone for good.  But, as we approached the TSA carry-on check, Disney called us.  They had found NHL’s buddy!  They confirmed our home address and told B that they’d ship the buddy to our home.  This was a nice, magical resolution to what could have been a very sad end to our Disney trip.

My Aloha Friday question for today is: Have you or your kids ever lost anything on a vacation?  If so, did you find it again?

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Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the linky there if you are participating.

Aloha Friday by Kailani at An Island Life

Aloha #137

Disclaimer: We paid for our own trip to Disney World to attend the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration. Though we were given an incredible deal from Disney, they never asked us to blog about this event.

Aloha Friday: Arrrr You A Pirate Fan?

Aloha Friday, Disney, DisneySMMoms, JSL, NHL, Photos, Smartphone/Tablet Apps

My boys love all things pirates.  This is partially (ok, mostly) fueled by Jake and the Never Land Pirates on Disney Junior.  So we were very excited when we found out that there would be a Swashbuckler Soiree at the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration.

Since I’m writing this post in advance (from my couch at home, not from Disney), I don’t have any photos of the pirate party.  Instead, here are some pirate-ified photos of my boys and I courtesy of the free Android app Make Me A Pirate:

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My Aloha Friday question for today is: Do you and your kids like pirates?

P.S. If you haven’t already, try out my Twitter applications: FollowerHQ and Rout.

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the linky there if you are participating.

Aloha Friday by Kailani at An Island Life

Aloha #136

Blame the Matzoh

Blogging, Holidays, JSL, Judaism, NHL

blame-matzoh I don’t have a proper post ready for today.  Yes, there’s this, but I don’t consider it a “proper post.”  B and I have been wiped out since Thursday (if not earlier).  You see, all that cleaning took a toll.  Then, after finishing up some cleaning on Friday, I took the Passover items down from the attic.  Then, B and I cooked for the Passover Seder.  Then, the next day, we picked up a few remaining items we felt we needed before having a second Seder that night.

I was supposed to go to temple on Saturday morning and Sunday morning, but couldn’t drag myself out of bed on Saturday.  Honestly, I was surprised that I got there on Sunday.

JSL, meanwhile, has had an awful Passover.  All of his favorite foods (macaroni and cheese, “chocolate drink” – a protein drink he loves having for breakfast, pizza, grilled cheese) aren’t Kosher for Passover.  Sure, you can make Matzoh pizza and you can melt cheese on Matzoh, but it isn’t the same.  We gave him fish sticks (shaped like actual fish – more or less) last night, but he complained the whole time and went to bed hungry.  The happiest I’ve seen him eating was when 1) he was eating melon and 2) he was eating Passover cookies and brownies at temple with me.  (JSL: “This is my bestest day EVER because I get to eat a lot of chocolate!”)

As for NHL, he’s doing fine.  He’s found out that he loves gefilte fish (though not horseradish) and he already knew that he loves hard boiled eggs.  He even tried, loved, and devoured my quinoa pilaf.  His dietary needs are being met.

I’ll try to fight off the Matzoh-carb-sleepiness tonight to get a proper post ready for tomorrow.  If none appears, though, the Matzoh got me.

Video Game Catastrophe

Games, JSL, NHL, Video Games

2012-04-03_21-07-26_27NHL loves the Lego video game series for the Nintendo DS, especially the Lego Indiana Jones game that he recently got.  He’ll sit down and play it for hours, shattering everything in sight and besting minifig enemies left and right.  He prides himself on the progress made, new characters unlocked and new areas found.

Meanwhile, his younger brother loves doing what his older brother does.  He doesn’t quite understand how to play the game well and he can’t read the menus, but he loves sitting down with the DS and playing his brother’s game.

Can you see the catastrophe coming?

A couple of nights ago, NHL sat down to play some DS, let out a scream, and began tearing up.  We rushed over to see what was the matter.  His game was at 0% completed.  All of the hard work he had put into his game over the past two weeks was gone.  All the unlocked levels and characters, erased.  He was sent back to the very beginning and was understandably upset.

What happened was immediately obvious.  JSL had started the game to play it, hit a bunch of buttons and somehow deleted NHL’s game.  Of course, being upset, NHL yelled at his brother over this which sent his brother into tears (and running into his bed, JSL’s usual "hiding" spot when he’s upset).  A parenting split-team play ensued.  I soothed JSL and told him that we weren’t mad at him.  However, I let him know that he did hurt NHL, even though it was unintentionally, and he should apologize.  B reassured NHL that his brother didn’t mean to delete his game.  She also let NHL know that he could get everything back by playing the game again.

There were some tense moments between the brothers as JSL obviously wanted things to go right back to normal and NHL didn’t want his brother around for fear he would somehow disrupt his game again.  Thankfully, by the end of the night, they made up (hopefully for good).  JSL will now refrain from playing that game and we’ll look for another Nintendo DS game for him.

Anyone know of a good Nintendo DS game for a nearly 5 year old?

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