Please excuse my mom tears

[Shonte Durrett]

So I have no idea how I am going to survive this first trip with the kids. My 4 year old DD was watching the Christmas parade on YouTube and I was in tears over her reaction to the floats!! I was never an overly emotional person until I had these kiddos. It doesn't help that WDW holds an extra special place in my heart - DH and I got married at the Poly in 2010.

Please tell me I am not the only one! Any advice? These are all tears of joy but there is seriously no controlling them!

THIS IS ME!!!! My kids are 2, 12, 13, 15 all girls.... Let me tell you My oldest 13 & 15 were 4 & 6 their first trip. During the fireworks Tinkerbell flew just 8 feet over our head and my girls were so filled with joy THEY were in tears. My little one said "Oh momma look, it's Tinkerbell!" sooooooo emotional for me. THEN there's the now.. I cry at commercials, I cry at movies, I cry at music songs, videos, etc.... To see my kids this coming trip with my 2 year old's first time, my husband's first time, & my step-daughter's first time..... It's going to kill me... hahahahha BUT... I so get a huge pleasure out of it! WIN - WIN!

 

[Blackadder337]

In our family, I'm the one that gets occasionally emotional and my wife has to pat me on the shoulder with comforting "there, there, it's all fine" .

Before my daughter was born, I was all super macho 'n stuff. I watched Saving Private Ryan from start to finish and when it was over, my thoughts were "wow what a fantastic movie, great action, powerful story with a powerful ending." Well I watched it again years later, and the final scene when he asks his wife if he was/is a good man... you guessed it, tears streamed down my cheek.

When we got a puppy, I felt the tears welling up again. I KNOW it will probably happen next October when she finds out we're going to WDW. Actually my hope is to not let her know until we're at the airport. Good a place as any for me to get so happy that i tear up again. Right?

 

[alicat8]

I always cry when we first get to mk on a trip and at fotlk. With my daughter on the last 2 trips, I cried all the time. She started singing along on Small World-forget it! I have no advice because I have no control either!

 

[dizzy daisy]

Just own it, lol. You may even catch the eye of another parent that gives you a gentle, knowing smile and that's kind of cool.

I am a sap when it comes to Disney and my kids. It's all kinds of awesome to see them caught up in a moment, and to be caught up in that moment with them.

 

[jtopp]

Nothing is as magical and heartwarming as seeing your children experience Disney in their own way. My children relive the memories constantly, of what they remember about certain moments in history. On our last trip, I was watching DD watch the Spectromagic parade, and she related to me how she always remembered that she would sit on my shoulders when she was too small to see. Truly touching!!!

 

[5stljayhawks]

Funny, all the times I have been to WDW with my kids I have never really been moved to cry. That was until I returned with my mom and my family, and we all walked down main street on Christmas morning just after rope drop, some 32 year after she took me on my first WDW trip(3/1977). Not really sure why or what for, but it still gets me.

 

[TXStormtrooper]

I ALWAYS tear up on vacations. Whether it's seeing the castle on that first day; enjoying my (not little) kids' reactions to parades, fireworks, characters, etc.; driving up to the Ingall's homestead in S. Dakota; seeing the expanse of the Grand Canyon, etc., I'm total waterworks!

 

[TXStormtrooper]

Oh, and I totally cry every time I watch the Disney planning videos.

 

[WDWBride04/19/2010]

Def. not the only one. Illuminations and kind of Wishes used to make me cry before having d.d., can't imagine the combo. of having her there. We also got married in W.D.W. in 2010 and are going back next month for our anniversary and d.d.'s first trip. I'll probably cry when the Magical Express shows up, when we enter W.D.W., at Illuminations and probably Wishes, and who knows when else!

 

[WDWBride04/19/2010]

I am of absolutely no help.

I am a dad who can't get through Toy Story 3 without crying!

L.o.l., my husband is the same

 

[DopeyDame]

I hardly ever cry. Like almost never.
But... the last day of DS's first WDW trip, we were on the very last carousal ride of the night (they closed the line right behind us.) I was on a horse right behind DH and DS. They were all smiles and cuddling. And as we went around and I thought about the amazing trip we had... I just totally and completely lost it. Sobbing right there on a silly horse in the middle of Fantasyland. I'm tearing up sitting at my desk thinking about.
Good luck OP

 

[Tigerlily125]

I rarely cry but I practically sob every time we first get to MK with the kids. I have great memories of WDW from when I was a kid and it is just so magical to be able to now bring my own children to experience it. I also cried when they met Anna and Elsa the first time. I have 2 girls and we went with my sister. So much sisterly love in one room...the tears were flowing! Lol