Here I am now, on the cusp of my 50th birthday (just 18 months away) and Toph is seriously eyeing his retirement in the next 5-10 years. We are closer than ever to what I have dreamed of for decades: a year of living abroad …

We went to England.

And I returned forever changed — and forever found.

Good travel does that.

For ten months, as I planned this Anglophilian dream of a trip, my family had been joking that my husband would be returning from our England vacation …

When you’ve booked a Disney vacation between December and February, you’re going to wish you’d prepared for it. So stay with me, ‘cause you ain’t never had a friend like me. I’m about to give you all of our tried and true methods for not having a winter-miserable time in the Most Magical Place on Earth.