itsdisneytime
oh my, am i day dreaming about Disney again?
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...... picture it --- me a 35 year old mother, with my dd 8 years old -- sitting on the couch and we get the surprise of a lifetime that my DH was giving us a trip to Disney!
** I must admit, I am a fanatic and I do love Disney, and probably too much whereas it has me saving for Disey all the time as opposed to saving for, well ... our financial future? ***
PROBLEM: I have made 5 trips to Disney and each and every time I have left there feeling like I didn't "do enough" or I didn't have "the right company" .. see, my DH NEVER comes with us as he is not the zippiti doo dah type .. and I usually get my sister or a friend to come with me. Where you say is the problem? Well, I am finding that I usually am frustrated with my company on the trip for not be as enthusiastic about being there as I am --- often I have been accused by more than one person of just wanting to do ... "too much" in one day?
DEFENSE: my defense to this mayham has always been that we are only there 7 days and 2 of those are shot to travel as most often my company does not want to go to a park the day of arrival or the day we leave. So with that knowledge, I ALWAYS want to maximize our park time and I try to have a schedule (THANKS DIS) for the tips I read and borrow ... um, my dd 8 can keep up ... why can't an adult? OOh alas, there it is, the reluctant to want to hustle and bustle I dont care attitude that my company carries with them and it rubs off on me. *** trust me, I hear y'all screaming, "why don't you just go off with your dd on your own and let your persinckity company be bumps on logs"? .... thing is, if its my sister, my daughter idolizes her and wants to stick by her side .. and if its a friend they usually have a child that my daughter wants to pal around with so im sort of always stuck with the ones that come along. Besides my sister, ive not made the same "company" mistake twice, ... except for the fact that I am always wishing they enjoyed it more or made it more magical for me with better attitudes?
REALIZATION: I know that I cannot expect everyone to LOVE Disney, I mean, not even my own husband cares to go ... but, it is very much so my magical place --- and especially since I have had cancer recently and July 21 will make it one year survivor for me, I dream of Disney and all the fun I have there even with the bah hum bug's I bring. I keep hoping in some small way that I will go once and there will be no negativity whatsoever ... that all things will be kept in stride and that I would take the time to smell the roses so to speak and not feel so rushed!
QUEST: I wonder if Im the only one who feel's like they wasted a trip when they come back? I swear, I am going to get flammed for this but, I have NEVER in all my trips even stopped to enjoy Main Street .. it's like I trudge in there gunho on getting to the rides, then on the way out I am barrelling through with folks sooo ready to get back to the tram/car that there is no way they are going to be happy to watch me shop stop everywhere. * okay, let me clear this up, Ive not been a whole lot in comparison to some of you really really lucky savvy travelers, Ive only been once a year for the past 4 years of my daughters life.*** we started when she was 4 years old and now at 8yrs old I find myself obsessing on when to get back and how to get back and how to make it better before she gets too old and has too many obligations to want to travel with her mom?
** I must admit, I am a fanatic and I do love Disney, and probably too much whereas it has me saving for Disey all the time as opposed to saving for, well ... our financial future? ***
PROBLEM: I have made 5 trips to Disney and each and every time I have left there feeling like I didn't "do enough" or I didn't have "the right company" .. see, my DH NEVER comes with us as he is not the zippiti doo dah type .. and I usually get my sister or a friend to come with me. Where you say is the problem? Well, I am finding that I usually am frustrated with my company on the trip for not be as enthusiastic about being there as I am --- often I have been accused by more than one person of just wanting to do ... "too much" in one day?
DEFENSE: my defense to this mayham has always been that we are only there 7 days and 2 of those are shot to travel as most often my company does not want to go to a park the day of arrival or the day we leave. So with that knowledge, I ALWAYS want to maximize our park time and I try to have a schedule (THANKS DIS) for the tips I read and borrow ... um, my dd 8 can keep up ... why can't an adult? OOh alas, there it is, the reluctant to want to hustle and bustle I dont care attitude that my company carries with them and it rubs off on me. *** trust me, I hear y'all screaming, "why don't you just go off with your dd on your own and let your persinckity company be bumps on logs"? .... thing is, if its my sister, my daughter idolizes her and wants to stick by her side .. and if its a friend they usually have a child that my daughter wants to pal around with so im sort of always stuck with the ones that come along. Besides my sister, ive not made the same "company" mistake twice, ... except for the fact that I am always wishing they enjoyed it more or made it more magical for me with better attitudes?
REALIZATION: I know that I cannot expect everyone to LOVE Disney, I mean, not even my own husband cares to go ... but, it is very much so my magical place --- and especially since I have had cancer recently and July 21 will make it one year survivor for me, I dream of Disney and all the fun I have there even with the bah hum bug's I bring. I keep hoping in some small way that I will go once and there will be no negativity whatsoever ... that all things will be kept in stride and that I would take the time to smell the roses so to speak and not feel so rushed!
QUEST: I wonder if Im the only one who feel's like they wasted a trip when they come back? I swear, I am going to get flammed for this but, I have NEVER in all my trips even stopped to enjoy Main Street .. it's like I trudge in there gunho on getting to the rides, then on the way out I am barrelling through with folks sooo ready to get back to the tram/car that there is no way they are going to be happy to watch me shop stop everywhere. * okay, let me clear this up, Ive not been a whole lot in comparison to some of you really really lucky savvy travelers, Ive only been once a year for the past 4 years of my daughters life.*** we started when she was 4 years old and now at 8yrs old I find myself obsessing on when to get back and how to get back and how to make it better before she gets too old and has too many obligations to want to travel with her mom?
