Was listening to the 3/12 show

[amyhughes]

About Disney Downy Dumps after you get back from a trip...

I too start the vicious cycle. When we got in the car on the way back I immediately started in with the "Next time, we'll stay at the Poly since you liked it so much." Adam wasn't out of it either, he chipped in all the way home on our next trip as well.

How I get not "over it" but through it is listening to Disney theme park music, only occasionally watching the Disney planning DVD, and also talking about our trip with our boys. This last portion is most cathartic for me and my kids in that in sharing these memories they tend to become more real and we relive them together. Almost like being there. My eldest loves anything Disney, and I fear I have created a monster! But he will say, "I miss Disney World." sometimes as well as my husband, so we go through our pictures (I made an online scrapbook, and webshow on my Mac), or we read a book for younger children called "Meet Me in the Magic Kingdom" This book has wonderful art work and I read it to the boys in the evenings before bed if they have a day where they have spoken about the "world" and wish them to sleep with, "Now, go to sleep and dream of Disney." It usually works.

For me, it's all about these boards, the Podcast, planning, and also answering emails from friends and acquaintances who ask me to help them plan their vacations.

 

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

I feel you on this. We were not going to take a trip this year but some things worked out with our finances and we can go. I was so bummed to not have a trip to look forward to this year. Since we made our ressies I am a different person. I always get that let down but cure it with the next trip planning. That is what I love about the DIS everyone here understands that feeling. Thanks for the post. It is nice to know there are people out there just like me.

 

[hayanyujah847]

And you know what's funny, as they mentioned on the podcast a lot of us midwesterners have this issue. We come home from sunny, warm days to cloudy, dark, gray days. Exactly as they suggested, I instantly get into planning our next trip to the World~even if it is a couple of years away!

I still have those moments when I see the Disney World commercials on TV or am having a bad day and say, I want to go to Disney World.

And I have my moments I try to convince DBf to search for a job in that area.