This post is about the "Give a Day, Get a Disney Day" program. Maybe you've already heard about this, but if not, I'll give you a quick rundown on the details. Basically, you do an approved volunteer project and get a one day, one park pass for Disneyland or Disney World to use this year. There are a few other options for people who already have park passes--like a special fast pass or trading pins. Kids over age 6 can volunteer with an adult. You register your household, pick a project, send some emails back and forth to the people in charge of that project, do the project, and then turn in the "paperwork." So, there are a few hoops to jump through. If you want to see more details, you can check out Give a Day, Get a Disney Day.
Our family is signed up to make blankets for "Project Linus." The blankets go to children who have experienced a traumatic event. There are tons of service projects to choose from, but you have to choose carefully if you have kids because they can't participate in some of them.
Whether we will actually go to Disneyland this year is still up in the air. We have made tentative plans to go this spring. But as Benjamin says, "We will go to Disneyland if we don't adopt a baby." Either way, we have something to look forward to. And we will probably go to Disneyland next year if we don't make it this year. Besides, our kids have already gone to Disneyland four times. If we don't make it before December this year, we can donate our passes to the Boys and Girls Club to send other kids to Disneyland!
The pictures in this post are from the first time we took our kids to Disneyland. Little kids are just so cute at Disneyland! Even if they do cry on Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Just in case you are wondering if I used the word "Disneyland" enough times in this post--yes, yes I did.
ReplyDeleteHaving a Disneyland trip on the calendar has been a great morale boost. When birth parents pass us by, we just say, "Hm, oh well, now we get to go to Disneyland!" Don't get me wrong, if prospective birth parents are reading this, we'd rather adopt. But hey, Disneyland as a consolation prize? Not too shabby!
ReplyDeleteWow, 4 times? Wanna adopt me? I'm potty trained:) Thanks for the info on this. We might be going in November. i'm going to keep this in mind.
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ReplyDeleteI am so glad that you shared your blog with me--I'll send you our link from FB. You and Wayne still look the exact same that I remember you from--what 10 years ago?? Golly--are we really that old?! ;) Anyways~ I think that it is so great that you are hoping to adopt a little girl--they are really fun--when they're not being overly dramatic ;) Good luck with everything and I'll keep tabs on you through FB and blogging. Cute boyd btw! And if you come to DL look us up! PS We just completed our service on Sat. We volunteeered at a Disney character pancake breakfast--it was more fun than work and now we get free DL tickets--yeah!! ;)