Good to hear! I'm planning on taking my son to see it next week. We saw the trailer a couple of months ago and thought it looked fun---and he loved the first movie.

I love it! You did a beautiful job---and your snow looks amazing! I really enjoy my village and look forward to "building" it each Christmas.

Yes!! In all seriousness, I would love to work there when the kids are grown and gone. Just need to move a bit closer...

I've been going to WDW since the year it opened, and it still hasn't lost any of its charm for me. Also, despite my many, many trips to WDW, I always manage to see or do something new while there. I'm thinking I probably won't ever "outgrow" it :)

I've been slowing way down on my reading as I've been switching into holiday mode :) I did, however, finish The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell since checking in last. An interesting mystery/thriller set at Princeton. I've started Dickens' David Copperfield, but am moving through it at a snail's pace.

So glad to see you back here! I, too, have always enjoyed your well thought out posts. Wishing you lots of happiness and peace in this new chapter of your life :grouphug:

Yes---I just used that same code last night and saved 25.00 in shipping costs.

My 16 yo daughter plays piano, electric bass guitar, guitar, and she took drum lessons, but has not been doing much drumming lately, even though we have a drum kit. My son plays guitar. My youngest plays piano, guitar, and wants to take drum lessons. If it weren't for her, our drum kit would be doing nothing but gathering dust...

1995 was one of the best years of my life: I had my first child that year.

I'm a bit more than half-way through The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. I'm finding it a quick, good read so far...

I finished How to Live: Or the Life of Montaigne by Sarah Blakewell. It's a biography of sorts of Renaissance era writer/philosopher Michel de Montaigne. Written in an interesting question and answer format, it focuses on excerpts from Montaigne's famous Essays. I found it interesting and will probably pick up Montaigne's Essays, which I have not read. Not sure what I'll start now. I did pick up The Rule of Four from the thrift store the other day, so I might give that a go.

The "Nightmare Before Christmas" theme for the Haunted Mansion is seasonal (for Halloween and Christmas) and it's only in Disneyland California and, I think Tokyo---not at WDW in Florida.

This sums up my thoughts/feelings on the issue.

Thanks for posting this.

Agree with all of this. It's incredibly sad.