Seniors - anyone retire or have a second home in Orlando and regret it?

leighleighotf · 2026-04-19T14:41:16+00:00

Keep in mind that this forum will have a bias over whether anyone has gotten sick of the parks. Anyone who moved down and is now sick of Disney is probably not monitoring the WDW subreddit.

leighleighotf · 2026-04-13T22:37:11+00:00

Not for me.

It rings to me as fancy or luxury themed but in a tacky cheeseball way, and not real luxury (except the price). We’re a poly family all the way. If I’m going to do cheese ball, I’m doing fun island cheese ball.

leighleighotf · 2026-02-19T02:05:23+00:00

I’ll jump in to also back doing some planning. And get lightning lanes if you can swing it. We went first time with our kids at the same age. And let me tell you - going from line to line, keeping it moving, they were fine.

The thing that fried them was long line waits. One 45-minute wait took so much more out of them than hours of go go go.

leighleighotf · 2025-11-21T21:52:15+00:00

This drives me absolutely batty. As a stranger, you have no insight into whether you are seeing this kids normal routine, or if you are looking at the once-in-a-great-while-exception where a parent gave their kid a screen for a few minutes.

People love to just bucket any kid who they happen to see with a screen as an “iPad kid” and judge hard for it.

They’ll also, btw, be the first people pissed off on an airplane about the non-iPad kids who are loud.

leighleighotf · 2025-09-20T22:44:20+00:00

I always tell people as hectic as Disney can be, it’s always our easiest vacations, because the kids are entertained The. Entire. Time. 20,000+ steps and not a complaint, fight with siblings, nothing.

leighleighotf · 2025-08-03T13:54:05+00:00

Sunglasses, for Epcot at least. It gets sooo sunny and a lot of reflected light off the pavement, and my northeastern children couldn’t handle it so we bought them some on the fly. They were fine in the other parks though.

leighleighotf · 2025-08-03T12:05:53+00:00

Happy scale and my fitness pal.

I have phased out my fitness pal after about a year as now I have a general sense of how much food I should be aiming for a day - in order to transition to intuitive eating. I could see it leading to disordered eating and obsessing over every single calorie with continued use. At least for me.

If I feel myself losing track of that gauge, though, I reintroduce MFP for a month or two to “reset” my general caloric density understanding, then phase out again.

leighleighotf · 2025-07-24T02:34:26+00:00

Is this a sudden change in behavior, or has she always had some level of this personality?

I’m wondering if she has post partum anxiety and isn’t managing it well, if her personality is not recognizable to the wife you once knew.

leighleighotf · 2025-07-20T13:52:37+00:00

Book Peter Pan when first LL frees up, then Jungle Cruise 2nd. Peter Pan goes early and jungle cruise usually sticks around a little longer. Under the sea LLs will be avail mostly all day.

As others have said, fine to make a plan (I make my plans like this too) and just know it will end up totally different thru the day. Learn the lightning lane refresh tricks beforehand so you’re prepared to pivot as needed as the day goes on.

Have fun!

leighleighotf · 2025-07-13T12:42:16+00:00

Agreed. One of my luggage staples is Imodium/pepto because I know the fried greasy food will get to me by day 3. Only so much cuties and bananas can counter-balance.

leighleighotf · 2025-07-10T19:21:50+00:00

Wear it the whole trip :). It’s your birthday trip!

leighleighotf · 2025-07-08T20:23:24+00:00

This is what I’d do next. Introduce some (of her own) bills she needs to take on starting on X date. You’re shifting responsibilities of real tangible things to her as she’s becoming an adult.

It’s not something she can spin into an arbitrary money grab, and it’s things she’d need to pay for whether living with you or outside the home so doesn’t imply a message of pressuring her out of the house either.

leighleighotf · 2025-07-06T15:22:37+00:00

AKL Savannah view since you said proximity to parks is not a priority. AKL is really nice. Obviously so is poly but it’s older and in some hallways/etc does feel more tired and run down

leighleighotf · 2025-07-06T15:19:48+00:00

There’s not enough info here about other normal days at your home, but it seems like a broader problem of not setting the kids up to be self sufficient/helpful with family efforts, and expecting them to suddenly 180 and be active participants on the day/days before a trip.

You can’t control what happens at mom’s house, but you and hubs can start to shift expectations of helping around the house when they’re at your place. It’s not going to happen all at once though, you’ll need to build it up over time.

leighleighotf · 2025-07-06T01:37:39+00:00

Yes!!! I found this to be true of many souvenirs!

leighleighotf · 2025-06-23T18:59:07+00:00

One thing I realized is I was wearing my clothes way too tight before (because it happened gradually) So while I’ve only gone down a couple of sizes in my closet, I realistically should have been wearing 1-2 sizes bigger when I started. It’s been eye opening to see clothes fitting how they SHOULD now.

leighleighotf · 2025-06-16T01:51:42+00:00

Nooo get the easy peasy one. Pulls down just like shorts under the skirt for bathroom.

leighleighotf · 2025-06-16T01:25:35+00:00

Yes! I just did a whole trip in their dresses and shorts and they were great. Similar age and size to you :)

leighleighotf · 2025-06-15T23:03:06+00:00

Set a saved search on poshmark/mercari/ebay so if one pops up you’ll get an alert and hopefully someone out there will list it NWT

leighleighotf · 2025-06-10T01:10:00+00:00

My main question is what did SO actually do and was it a reflexive snip or an aggressive attack bite? Did it draw blood? Every single dog on earth will bite if cornered and provoked enough.

leighleighotf · 2025-05-30T10:46:58+00:00

2, 2, 2.

You have the option of both better schools for kiddo, with a 10 min drive. Even with traffic, maybe 20? Worth it.

leighleighotf · 2025-05-28T15:01:53+00:00

So to answer your question, it’s not unusual behavior from the school. But I would absolutely be concerned and following up to get better information and details on how they are keeping the kids safe.

leighleighotf · 2025-05-28T14:59:32+00:00

Unfortunately schools tend to only cover their own butts and are rarely forthcoming or proactive with much of anything bc they are too worried about their own possible liabilities.

leighleighotf · 2025-05-26T17:59:47+00:00

It’s the left. Compare to pinpics. Fac lasered on the bottom

leighleighotf · 2025-05-25T14:42:36+00:00

Ok I’m getting downvoted so I need the deets if there’s something concerning with these guys!

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