felling guilty about not taking ds15

[nettii]

felling super guilty. Im taking my ds 8 down for a week and leaving my 15 yr old son home with his dad. I got great air fair and a pin and I totaly ran with it planned and booked this trip. No let me go back a bit.....we travel every year and DS15 is not in love with Disney the way Ds8 and I are. we watch the planning dvd like its a weekly tv show lol! DS 15 is totaly into baseball and wouldnt be able to go right now any way nor does he want to. He has reasured me he dosnt want to go, go have a good time ect ect. he and my dh do their fair share of hunting trips with out me and our ds 8. so why do i fell soooo guilty? I fell so quilty

 

[tink1969]

You are feeling guilty because you are a MOM!
Now go have fun!

 

[MErnst]

Don't feel guilty...have fun!

 

[bbak30]

Sounds like you have a GREAT son! Have fun

 

[Kimberly Hill]

My older sons rarely Disney with us now unless it's a big extended family trip every few years and it took quite a while for me to get used to vacationing without them. They honestly prefer not to go. DS #1 (who lives at home while attending school) appreciates the quiet and the $$ he earns from dog sitting.

 

[ancestry]

Have fun. Don't feel guilty. We usually don't take my older two children (18 and 15) with us anymore. They went when they were younger and now neither of them want to miss school. It's all good.

 

[pooh17]

Don't feel guitly. We leave for the world next week, and my DS13 is begging me not to make him go with us. He would much rather spend his vacation at home with his friends. I feel guilty making him go!

 

[JUJU814]

Don't feel guilty!

I just left ds, 8, and dd, 18 home while I took dd, 6 for 10 nights. We had a ball! Ds had a ball at home with my husband..both guys are not Disney people. Dd 18 is busy with school, has been to Disney plenty of times and is "Disney'd out" (is there such a thing?????)

Anyway, there's nothing to feel guilty about. Go and have fun!!!!

 

[GrammyJudy]

Years ago I had a business meeting in Orlando and thought it would be good to take my family along. Well DH couldn't get time off, DS wanted to go to Space Camp in Ala bama so DD and I went. Ds went to Alabama a couple of months later. We all did what we wanted and enjoyed it! Go and have fun!!!!

 

[lurkernj]

I took DS11 last September and left DS14 home with DH. He was going to be starting highschool on 9/2, and younger DS's school was under construction and he wasn't starting until 9/21, so a free dining trip to a Pop century was in order. I asked his "permission" before planning. DS14 said he didn't care as long as I brought him back some Mickey rice krispee treats from Goofy's. I did feel a little bad, but he genuinely didn't seem to care. I brought him back his treats and some other cool stuff and he seemed very happy.

 

[ireland_nicole]

Have a great time! Maybe bring him back something he likes Enjoy 1 on 1 time with your DS, it will be a memory you'll both have forever.

 

[LisaNJ25]

I hear you. My 17yo is not coming with us this summer. He was miserable his last trip at 15. I am not going to have a miserable teenager who doesn't want to be there. (Plus we will fit in 1 room). I am a little sad but he has had some other fun trips as well as a solo trip with me to Disney land when he was 8/

 

[3princesses+aprince]

Oh boy do I know how you feel and i'm sure you feel even worse than me, because it's my step son doing it to us. He's going to be 14 and told us last week that he's just going to stay home when we go to Disney in September. We feel so sad that he won't be joining us. We are hoping he changes his mind, but I don't know We've never taken a trip without him before, so it definitely will not feel right. If you felt no guilt for leaving without him, you wouldn't be a great Mom!

 

[blessedmom4]

DON’T feel guilty, have a BLAST! Oh how I would love to do that with each of my children, lol! The “Bachelors” are going to have a great time too!

 

[squirrel]

Have Fun. Bring him back something he would like-fudge, T-shirt?

 

[livie1205]

we are leaving tonight and our 2 oldest boys are staying with their other parents.....they just can not leave school right now so it is just us and dd4 BUT we are taking them on Christmas break to the resort of their choice (AKL CL) so they are cool with it. I am sure they will get lots of suvies from this trip!

 

[nettii]

Thank you all for your experiences. It helps when you no your not alone
I just want both my kids to know they are loved equally! I have been dieting and doing very well so I think Im going to go to goofys and make him some great yummy snackS!Thank you all again! I love my real world friends, but I also love my Dis friends because some times my peeps in the real world just dont understand some Disney dilemas!LOLBig hugs Nettii