{"id":543,"date":"2014-04-26T02:52:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T02:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suburbandiva.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2014-04-26T02:52:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T02:52:30","slug":"the-9-nonsensical-lessons-i-learned-at-disneysmmoms-and-1-important-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suburbandiva.com\/2014\/04\/26\/the-9-nonsensical-lessons-i-learned-at-disneysmmoms-and-1-important-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9 nonsensical lessons I learned at DisneySMMoms and 1 important one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I was lucky enough to have been invited to the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration. I attended with a friend and my two daughters, and it is truly an experience I will never forget.<\/p>\n

I had a wonderful time, met amazing people and learned a lot. To summarize a trip of this size and scope is almost a disservice, so I have attempted to compile the top 10 lessons I learned.<\/p>\n

1.) Remember to bring the Fit Bit next trip. The massive step count will justify another Dole Whip.<\/p>\n

2.) Never trash-talk a 7 year-old about who is going to puke first on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. There are no winners in that game.<\/p>\n

3.) Buzzfeed needs to issue a quiz on \u201cWhat kind of Ride Line Person are you?\u201d Answers will range from Personal-Space-Ignorer to Huge-Gap-Leaver. I will probably score, Why Yes, I am the Line Police, since both of the previous profiles seem to haunt me at every attraction.<\/p>\n

4.) Finding Hidden Mickeys does not constitute make-up homework in Geometry. (But it should.)<\/p>\n

5.) Those huge mylar balloons that they sell on Main Street will out-last the stand-by line at Peter Pan, a week\u2019s hotel stay, hundreds of miles stuffed in a trunk, several seasons of \u201cGood Luck, Charlie,\u201d a forwarded power-point slideshow entitled, “FW: FWD: RE: FWD: YOU WON\u2019T BELIEVE THIS KID!\u201d from your grandmother and an Oscar acceptance speech.<\/p>\n

6.) No one who hasn\u2019t had their face on a jar of Smucker\u2019s with Willard Scott on the Today Show knows who Mr. Toad is but everyone agrees his ride is little more disturbing than wild.<\/p>\n

7.) Even though you may feel the same effects the next morning, \u201cpark-hopping\u201d and \u201cbar-hopping\u201d are not interchangeable activities.<\/p>\n

8.) Restraining orders signed with big overstuffed costume gloves are still legally valid. (Sorry again, Hercules.)<\/p>\n

9.) Turn on the flash for selfies on Space Mountain.<\/p>\n

10.) Just because parenthood can be serious business, childhood isn\u2019t. There is this modern tendency for us to be so wrapped up in the responsibilities, expectations and journey of motherhood, that we can easily overlook the happy fact that a childhood is occurring in tandem.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t go to Disneyland everyday, but magic can be a daily event. Find it. Point it out. Laugh with it. Create, make, build, feed, read, appreciate, praise, worship, sing, breathe, adore, photograph, grow, enjoy, write, cry, memorize and wonder at it.<\/p>\n

Share it.<\/p>\n

The memories will last even longer than that mylar balloon.<\/p>\n

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The best hosts ever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a92014 Tracey Henry<\/p>\n

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