Have you thought about giving the gift of experiences instead of material gifts? 🤔

What a week it has been! South Florida finally got a taste of Fall weather and we dipped down into the 60's for a few days this week. That meant I could wear a few of my spirit jerseys!! 💃💃💃 Yes I own quite a few spirit jerseys where it's always around 80 degrees or higher where I live...but I turn up the A/C in my office and wear them while I work! LOL!

I have a question for you..I want to know are you the type of Mom that starts buying Christmas gifts early or wait until it gets closer to Christmas? Head over to my facebook group and let me know: Smart Moms Planning Disney & Universal with Girls.

I will admit I have already started buying Christmas gifts but honestly this year I'm looking at gifting them with a trip to Disneyland. 😁. They have never been and I'm super excited to show them Toon Town that they never got to see at Walt Disney World. Also in Toon Town they are opening Mickey's Runaway Railway and you know that Elizabeth loves that ride! With all these new enhancements a trip to Disneyland seems like a great present. All of these enhancements are set to open early 2023 so we are thinking summer and you know what summer is....MY BIRTHDAY!! Double the fun, their Christmas gift and my birthday!! That's the great part a trip as a Christmas present doesn't mean you have to go right then. You can plan into 2023 and build the excitement until it's time.

Giving my kids the gift of experiences and travel is something I've thought a lot about. Toys after a week don't get played with but the memories and the family time we share on trips is irreplaceable. Are you ready to give the gift of experiences? Fill out my link at the bottom of the email and lets see what we can find together.

I found this online and thought what a great ideas they had to give the gift of experiences.

Cruise update:

We are just under 3 weeks until our cruise!! Can you believe it!! This week I spent a full 2 days working on the Fish Extender gifts. I made most of my gifts and love how they came out. Check out some of the gifts I made.

What do you think? I made personalized color changing cups for all the adults and kids. This will come in handy at the soda machines and ice cream machine. Open all day and you don't have to worry about a paper cup!

I also made each family a cruise frame so they have a spot to place a pic of them on the cruise. Then, I found this cute idea of laundry pods and dryer sheets with a cute note so they can do laundry on the ship if needed. I made the kids a Disney cruise Journal and made it age appropriate, the younger kids have pages to draw and color while the older kids have prompts and places to fill in their daily activities on the cruise.

The next items I made for each family was a personalized Christmas ornaments. It is a merrytime cruise so wanted to add that aspect in it too. I have some cute elves I found at the dollar store for the kids that I'm going to personalize and give to them. The last items I worked on was a pirate night pack. I found glow sticks at the dollar store and ring pops. On amazon I found pirate patches and waiting on gold chocolate coins to finish up the pirate packs.

To close off the bags I found cute tags to go on them and personalized it with our info. I separated the gifts and will give something each day. Something small but I think cute that they will love. You don't have to give everyday as part of a fish extender gift exchange. You can just do one gift pack with several items and give it sometime during your cruise but my girls wanted to give something small each day.

I'm so excited because Tuesday, October 25th I leave to Disney on a rewards trip. Remember last week I talked about how I won this trip from Smart Moms for my sales. Thank you to all my clients, it's because of you that I get to go and meet some amazing women and spend time talking about growing our business.

I'll be checking in for 1 night at Animal Kingdom Lodge and breakfast at Boma the next morning. Then I switch over to Disney's BoardWalk resort. We are staying in a 3 bedroom Grand Villa with a boardwalk view. I can't wait to show you all this amazing room!

Here are some of the plans we have:

-Epcot Harmonious Fireworks cruise

-Exploring Food and Wine

-Dinner at Ohana

-Breakfast at Crystal Palace with Pooh and Friends

Want to follow along?? Come follow along with me on IG as I'll be posting in my stories. My 3 Little Traveling Bugs

What an exciting week it was! Tons to do in the next few weeks so stay tuned! I leave you with a quote:

“When you travel with children, you are giving them something that can never be taken away. Experience, Exposure, and a way of life." -Pamela T. Chandler

Have a great week everyone!

All the Pixie Dust,

Jillian