WDW in YOUR heart

[studog100]

For all the Disney lovers....WDW obviously means something to you. I have enjoyed WDW for years with wife and now kids. We all love it. We shared many many memories there together. It's like our second home. I honestly don't know if I would/could ever enjoy WDW again if something (whatever the case may be) happened that prevented ALL of us from going together i.e. divorce, death, other medical problems etc......

Could you? It's just weird to think about.

 

[princessarielle]

We've been to Disney once without our daughter and we're going again for an anniversary trip in December. It's hard to be there without her, but then again it's nice to getaway just the 2 of us sometimes. When we went in March we were in Orlando on business so we took a few days to go to WDW. I had made a sign that said "We Miss You Cassidy" and we had the characters hold it up for pictures and they signed it for us. Everyone in line thought it was cute. Plus, it's fun taking stuff home for her. And A LOT cheaper without her there-

 

[Blueberry]

It was strange when our kids were grown and in college and not going with us every trip. Now they are grown and take their own families when they can so the tradition is continuing. We cannot go with them every trip but now and then we all go the same time..Not the same as when they are little but it is differnt seeing WDW through the eyes of your grandchildren, something I HIGHLY recommend...

 

[karen l]

WDW is very special & yes we do enjoy going back. I lost my DH to cancer in 2003 & we feel WDW is a way to keep our sanity even though we lost someone we love very much. My 3 kids & I make new memories every time we go & talk about what my DH would have loved if he were with us. WDW has been especially good for my youngest DS (11yrs). He saw the devastating effects of cancer & has had a difficult time since he lost his Dad.
When we go to WDW, our family knows how important it is to treasure the time we have together.

 

[bcsmom]

I totally agree with you Karen. My family enjoy's every minute we spend together in Disney. We left my youngest DD, when we went in Sept & I could not get home fast enough. Our January trip was the best ever, since we were all there.

 

[jimmalru80]

Our family has enjoyed WDW as a group of five since 1996. We are to the point that DS (by then 22) will be joining us for perhaps the last time in June. His own life is about to begin, he graduates from college in April, and his own interests may soon take over; but NOT this year. We have discussed it with him and we realize we must let time take it's course. We will miss him should he decide not to join us in 2007, but that's part of the "parent" thing. You don't really own them, you "rent" them until it's time to let go and then they explore the world on their own. We are so happy to have him with us for so many of our trips, and look forward to him seeing the world as he sees fit.

 

[huey578]

For all the Disney lovers....WDW obviously means something to you. I have enjoyed WDW for years with wife and now kids. We all love it. We shared many many memories there together. It's like our second home. I honestly don't know if I would/could ever enjoy WDW again if something (whatever the case may be) happened that prevented ALL of us from going together i.e. divorce, death, other medical problems etc......

Could you? It's just weird to think about.

It just gets in your blood...you just have to go back,like a calling of sorts...ha

 

[Peepster]

This may be a little off, but I think I know what the OP means...I took my parents as an adult and we had some of the best times ever. I thought I'd be devasted when they passed away, but I find that when I'm there now, one of the first things I sense is their love and it makes me teary in a happy way. Believe me, we always carry the ones we love in our hearts.

And the first time I went to WDW with my SO...SO HATED it! So after many tears I took a ten year break from the World. Finally, SO decided to try again and surprised me with a Christmas trip. Can't explain exactly what it was (although Mickey hanging a stocking of candy on our door on Christmas Eve didn't hurt) but SO fell in love with the place just as I had. We are now very happy AP holders and DVC'ers...and anxiously awaiting our March trip with our best friends who have never been there before.

 

[Mom to a Princess]

For all the Disney lovers....WDW obviously means something to you. I have enjoyed WDW for years with wife and now kids. We all love it. We shared many many memories there together. It's like our second home. I honestly don't know if I would/could ever enjoy WDW again if something (whatever the case may be) happened that prevented ALL of us from going together i.e. divorce, death, other medical problems etc......

Could you? It's just weird to think about.

I lost my mom to cancer in 2004 and my husband to drugs in 2004. Prior to 2004 Disney had been a haven for all of us. Particulary for my mom and I. My ex-husband and I had our honeymoon there. Have I lost my love for Disney -- NO WAY! In fact I think I am more addicted. I pass the love of disney on to my dd. We treasure the times we have there more so than ever. When my mom found out she had cancer we booked a trip for her, dd, and myself for before she started chemo. That week was one of the best we ever had - and dd and I treaure those memories just I treasure my times with dd at disney and dd treasures the times she went there with her father even though he is not in the picture anymore.

 

[te2077]

i so love wdw. never was able to go as a kid. so now that im older i take my sister(23) and brother (14). in the past due to their huge age differences and school schedules ive never been able to take them both at the same time before. they have each been 3 times, but we've never been able to make it as our little family unit. this will be our first trip all 3 together. each year we say i wish so and so was here to see this. now we dont have to because well share in the magic together. im so excited.

 

[Amy&Dan]

This may be a little off, but I think I know what the OP means...I took my parents as an adult and we had some of the best times ever. I thought I'd be devasted when they passed away, but I find that when I'm there now, one of the first things I sense is their love and it makes me teary in a happy way. Believe me, we always carry the ones we love in our hearts.

Oh that makes me so happy to hear! We took my parents to WDW this past October for what we knew would be a one time only trip. My mother has cancer and Alzheimers and my stepdad at 81 has his share of health problems as well. Several times we thought we wouldn't make that trip due to their fragile health. When I returned in Decemer without them it was hard to not get teary remembering our visit with them three months earlier. I remember one day sitting on a bench by the castle we had all sat on during MNSSHP and it made me so happy/sad/sentimental to think we had all sat right there just a few months earlier. Since then I have begun to realize that the day will come when my parents will be gone and I wondered if that would make me almost unable to go not only to WDW but other places we have enjoyed with my parents all of these years. But you are right, they won't be there with me physically but I know their spirit and love will go with me wherever I go. And that is what WDW is truly about, making memories with the ones you love that last forever!

 

[pepe of ohio]

We feel the same, having gone since 1977, with our 2 children and when our son graduated college and married, his wife is not a Disney fan and that put the kiboshes to his trips. Our daughter during her college years, signed up in her senior year for the Disney College Program and arrived in Florida one day proir to Sept 11. We visited her that 6 month period 2 times and coming home and graduating from college informed us she was moving to Florida and going to work for Disney. We thought, nows our excuse to move too. She gave it a year but Disney had no real openings in her field and wages were too low compared to other parts of the world and returned to our state. I once said, to both kids, that I'ld pay for all rooms if we all went as a group and son and wife and daughter all went and had a fantastic time but our son has not returned to WDW since, figured he's a lost cause. Daughter has gotten married and we all still go together to WDW, we once went, just me and wife, daughter was finishing up college and upon arriving in WDW, I told my wife it isn't the same without her. She is the really complete Disney child, and I told wife to call her, have her fly down now and give me the bill cause its not the same without her, the spark. She couldn't because of finals in her senior year and we made it through that vacation butsince then she goes with no prodding. She met hubby during Disney program days and he's got the fever just as bad as the rest of us.

Mention Disney, and he's ready to go. We were talking for this year on a August trip and he says how about May and August, daughter agrees so we're a plannin to see what transpires. Our little 5-6 day trips now are 10-1

2 day for all of us and we can't get enough of all of us being together in WDW and enjoying it and each other after all the years. Its magical, holds our interest and when we're home, I banned my wife from Disneydirect, mailman thought I was running a store out of my home from all the boxes he delivers each week. Needless to say our home is decorated in early, vintage Disney.

Kinda rambled on but it was a choice post.