TALES FROM SINGLE PARENTHOOD

I Spent My Financial Aid Money on a Trip to Disney World

And I don’t regret a dime of it

Maria Shimizu Christensen
4 min readMay 2, 2022

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Photo by Thomas Kelley on Unsplash

My financial aid package for the quarter was disbursed to my account on a Monday, and a few days later we were on our way to Disney World. It was mildly but not totally irresponsible. Hear me out.

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Maria Shimizu Christensen

Writer. Maker. Featured in Medium’s 2021 list of Stories That Started Conversations. I write about life. https://www.mariashimizuchristensen.com