Having trouble keeping the secret!

[poohfriend77]

DD4 and I just watched the AK special on Travel channel, and every two seconds, she asked, "Can we go back to Disney World? Am I big enough for that now? Did we do that? Can we PLEASE ride that?" Here I am, dying to tell her we're going in 6 months! It's not a true "surprise trip" but DH and I agreed we'd wait until October to tell them. This is brutal!

Now the DCL show is on, and I'm thinking we need to plan that for spring break 2011.

 

[DonnaBelle06]

Well I fall in the "can't keep a secret"...........I told my kids just 7 days after making the reservation...........I thought at least they would know what 1/2 of their allowance was going to (Disney Dollars).

We leave Aug 15....so I figure maybe another trip I'll be better at keeping it a secret. LOL!

 

[dizneechic]

I'm having trouble here too and we don't leave until Feb!! I just need to make it to Christmas though since that's when we've decided to tell them.

Of course last night we were at Uno's for my middle ds's birthday and my dd was begging to go back there for hers. She was insisting we promised her, which we just kept saying we'll go somewhere special for your birthday, little does she know it will be a Princess dinner at Disney. I suck at secrets so lets hope I make it through the next few months!

 

[TinaLala]

I can finally say I think we're going and it will definitely be a secret for my kids. We usually don't tell them where we're going on trips to make it more of an adventure! Plus they don't get disappointed when a friend can't make a play date if they don't know they have one. I can't wait

 

[spare+a_pair]

I'm right there with you! It is KILLING me not to tell my 3 DS's - we are going after Thanksgiving to celebrate the boys Nov birthdays (they were bor 11/9, and the twins are 11/26). DH wants to surprise them by going on a road trip and "ending up" in WDW

They will be thrilled, but some days, the DIS is all I have to relay my excitement for them1

 

[tarabelle13]

I am having a hard time too. We are going in August with a 6 and 16 yr old, so it is hard to talk in code
We still havent figured out yet how to tell them .....

 

[MinnieTink]

Right there with you too! And the travel channel shows on Disney make it even harder! My DDs are always asking when can we go back, how they miss it, etc... I am really really trying to keep it a secret, but I am almost more excited than they would be! I can only talk to my DH about it, and, at this point, he is like, Hey, can you sing a different tune?

 

[tricia]

It's killing me too. My kids always know about our vacations. We have a cruise booked in March 2010, and the kids have known about it for 12 months now. We just recently decided to go to WDW at the end of Sept. for free dining and we haven't told them yet. Also, DSIL and her family are joining us and their DS does not know either. The DHs said we should just tell them the night before. That is too late for me. The kids help me pack, and they are responsible for taking their own entertainment for the flight etc., so I told them that we have to tell them at least 1 week ahead. Oh well, let's see how it goes.

 

[Nlbnikki]

I feel your pain,my mom & 2 dd's are going in August and neither DD knows they are 2 & 6,and I always tell them as soon as I even think about going. I have booked and almost paid off the trip & still haven't said a word. I got a part time job to pay for the trip & DD6 knows I am working so I have money to buy something in august but she has no idea what. I am going to have a picture of the last time the four of us went 2 years ago made into a puzzle & give them each a piece every hour untill the figure it out. We are driving so they will think at first we are going to our family reunion,that is if I can keep it a secret for a couple more months.

 

[PiratesCove]

We are taking our DD (7) on her third trip in July. DH insists that since both of the other trips were surprises that this one should be too. This is getting harder to do as she gets older - like someone else had said talking in code. So, we decided to make her substitution cypher that once she figures it out will give her the latitude and longitude of Cinderella's castle. She won't know what it is until she puts it into mapquest. We figured this will keep her busy for a little while once school lets out (only 5 more days)!
Good luck to everyone

 

[BayouMouseketeer]

I am in the same boat! I almost let it slip today! DS saw my new Baggalini in the back of our car and asked what it was for and I said "for Disney World" and then quickly added "or any trip we may take!" Thankfully, he didn't catch it! Then, I asked DD to go get the mail but she got outside, started to play and "forgot." I went to check the mail later and in the box was our "Customized Maps" from WDW!!! So far, its still a secret but I find myself wanting to discuss meals and plans with them and have to hold my tongue!

 

[Maggie'sMom]

I'm in the same boat. I'm planning to take DD back in August 2010. I really want it to be a surprise trip, but already I'm saying too much. And I haven't even made any reservations yet!

I find myself asking her "next time we go to Disney would you want to eat in the castle again or do you want to try the princess meal at Epcot?" or "what are your favorite things to do at Animal Kingdom?" I have to follow up with "we're not going back for a really long time." Which is true. She just doesn't know yet that I have a specific time in mind. I just know once I make the reservations, I'm going to completely blow it and tell her.

 

[Juliet25]

After our last trip, all future trips will be a surprise (at least for while). Why you ask? Because every.single.day from about Christmas 'til we left in March we heard "Are we going to DW yet?", "We're NEVER going to get to Disney World!", "I've been waiting FORVER!" ETC.

 

[DNSYFRK]

My wife are in your boat, but we have kept it a secret since early November and we are leaving in less than a month. We have almost let the cat out of the bag many times, it is in fact almost daily that we slip now. The kids think we are going in a couple of years so when we slip we say but it will not be for a couple of years.

Try asking your daughter where she wants to eat on her birthday with out telling her we are going, that is even harder.

We have the kids so convinced we are not going for a couple of years grandma asked if they were going to Disney World and my daughters reply was we cannot afford to go this year, we are going in two years.

We even went to the Disnet store to add spending money to our gift card, and to get cards for the kid's spending money, The clerk asked are you going there soon, it was really hard to say no, when i just wanted to say yes.

Plus I had to post just to see the ticker

Good Luck keeping the secret, I think it will all be worth it.

 

[prince.john]

I was in that zone at my 180 day mark too....But then it gets easier to keep the secret. (Until the next milestone, 90 days!) I just go off the phone minutes ago making my three character meal reservations for our 7 day stay....and the suspense is back. I don't envy you, the hardest part is yet to come. But you must prevail for the children...Luckily you have a good support group here. I want to wake up family and shout YEEAHH Were going!!!! But no, I must hold on another month. We're planning on the 60 day window for the big announcement.

 

[kpmdjm]

we are going in aug with dd6 ds 12 and we are kepping it a secret and it is so hard. My kids think we are going to tenasee where we have family and have not been in like 9 years. I don't plan on letting them in on the secret till they figure it out on there own.

 

[kkmcan]

Our last DL trip wasn't supposed to be a surprise but it ended up that way. We had a few nights booked in Oceanside, CA (1 hour south of DL) and our APs only had 2 months left on them so I convinced DH that we needed to add a couple of days onto our trip and go to DL for our final AP trip. I never told the kids in case we ended up not going.

We are on the freeway approaching DL and my dd says- Hey, we are right by DL. It says Disney Way on that sign. I was like, oh, your right. Well lets take a quick drive by and at least see the entrance and use a nearby potty. We get off on Katella dr. and head down to Harbor. The kids are so excited to "see" DL.

We pull into Howard Johnsons (where we are staying) and I told the kids that maybe Dad would let us go into DL for 2 rides only since we were right there. Thats all we had time for. Oh, but wait, I don't think I have our APs with us. I root around in my bag and exclaim, I've got them. How lucky we are!

The kids are jumping up and down in the backseat trying to decide which 2 rides they are going to do. DS says he has to go to the bathroom and I told him well, that means you only get one ride since the bathroom will take up time we don't have. He gets all sad.

I decide we will use the Hojos bathrooms first before walking over to the park. They use the bathroom and I head to the office. Kids come out of bathroom and I say- You won't believe it they have an extra room for tonight. Maybe we can ask Dad if we can stay just one night. DS is so excited and DD is onto me. She says you knew we were coming here! You made this reservation a long time ago.

I denied it but made a big deal of asking Dh if we could stay for just one night. He was like, ok, but just one night. DD says, yeah right, one night. I bet it's 2 or 3 nights.

Oh my gosh, that was so much fun playing that one off. FIrst they thought we would just drive by, then they thought that they could only ride 2 rides, then they find out that we will stay overnight (actually was 2).

So much fun! Our kids are usually onto us when it comes to surprises but this one blew them away at least for a little while.

 

[sunnyday123]

I love hearing about everyone suprising their kids! Try really hard to keep it a secret for as long as you can-the look on their face is so worth it.

I planned our trip with DD's help, telling her it was a "dream" trip to Disney...so I got all of her input on where to stay, where to eat and what to do.

The morning of our flight, I woke her up and told her we were flying to NYC. From philly. Yea, she was only 10, ,she didn't get the logistics at 3 am.

I told her in line at the airport, only because everyone and their brother was loudly talking about how they were going to Orlando. I just looked at her and said, "You know, you can't fly to NY from Philly, it doesn't make sense when we're only 2 hours away." She got a funny look on her face, and I said, "How about we go to Disney instead?" Later that day my Mom and Step father met us in Norway. She said it was the best trip ever.

 

[tarabelle13]

I love all your stories!! We have 66 more days and are DYING to tell them. When ever we slip up, we tell them we are going in 2010 cause my brother is getting married this year when we normally go. We havent completely decided how to tell them yet. All I can come up with so far is giving them a gift with ears, pins ect. We are staying overnight in a hotel to spend the weekend "school shopping" and we are flying out of a different airport this trip, so they wont suspect. I would to hear some more suprise storys