We were "that" family

[MoniqueU]

Well I guess I am a mean mom. IF we have problems, we just round the kids up and leave. It comes from having annual passes to Disneyland for years and years. IF the kids don't behave we leave, I am not putting up with fights or spoiled rotten behavior. I do it in Florida too. One time my daugher who was probably 7 didn't keep up with us, got lost and then wasn't too apologetic about it so we just up and left Islands of adventure and went back to the hotel. I am not blazing in the heat in the middle of august with kids that can't follow the rules. So we went back to the hotel and stayed there no pool or anything til dinner. Keep in mind she had been going to Disneyland since she was months old and walking and keeping up there in crowds and so forth, she just decided that that day she wasn't going to listen.

Then on our way back down to FT. Lauderdale my kids decided to pitch a fit over the guitars the hard rock hotel had given them and used them to bop each other on the head with them. I put up with it for about 30 miles of knock it offs and so forth then told everyone of them to give me their darn guitars and I pitched them out the window. Problem solved, the rest of the trip was quiet.

I don't care where I am or how much someplace costs me if people in my family can't keep basic manners going we are out of there. There will be other trips, other vacations, other meals and other rides. Why should I put myself through misery to have a half hour of a parade a day be my magic time?

 

[disneymarie]

Of yes, I was the one who uttered the four letter f word in Magic Kingdom, after a trying day. Hubby hadn't been interested in giving any input in the planning, even though he had been asked for months what he wanted to do, and all of a sudden, he starts making suggestions in the middle of our day at MK, and then 10 seconds later, he changes his mind, and then again, then 'or we could go here, or we could go all the way across the park to there'... So I threw my passporter book and plans at him and said the bad word, along with a long tirade of what he could do with his sudden ideas

OMG we must be married to long lost twins!
Except I didn;t get the "F" word, I got the yelling, sarcasim, and tantrums, walk off, pout and have me in tears.

DS 34 ended up being the same way when I was suppose to stay with him and DIL to watch gradson almost three, and NOT do what I would like with my 11 year old, because I may lose the child....have not lost one in 34 years out of 4 even if I tried!

The kiddo afraid of characters, except Ariel, , no Haunted mansion, no Hall of presidents, No pirates....But why not go on with a child swap??? No pout walk off to where I can not locate, wander around for how long losing precious moments.....

Our second trip, 1/2 hour after we got to the hotel as he got boozed up, and started a tirade about the Free Universal tickets over breakfast speil I cancelled..... he had a fit. No reasoning that I was not getting up at 6 to spend two hrs! Either we buy the tickets or not, nothing is for free.

The only thing that comforted me was, someday as grand children grow and we want to go back, there will be the time he is gone....
We lost our oldest dd last year, the trip that fall was very difficult.

So now it means any return trips all plans are to which days the guys want what park, the girls make sense plans of avoiding peak park days and hopping from Animal Kingdom to Epcot, Let them figure it out for theurself and then knowing the girls are having a great time and they got the ME ME ME time out of their system.

Oh, And I will take DGS and have a good time not bench sit as they go in and out at Epcot lands !!!!!
Di
OH, then there was the pout and eye rolling whine: as I had to use a ECV and dh had to push the stroller all day!

 

[badblackpug]

Oh thank goodness - I thought it was only my kids who would probably kill each over who gets to push the elevator button. Some years we actually had to have assigned days. No less this was when we stayed at the GF. Sometimes I felt like the Beverly Hillbillies meet the Grand Floridian!

OMG! I forgot about the elevator buttons!

Yes, it was my children that were the thundering herd in AKL last year, (it wasn't wildebeasts) running down the hallway then wrestling each other for the button.

...I also apologize to the folks who had to ride up and down the elevator with them while they pushed all the buttons!

 

[kyhardy]

Every year we have this from DD... This has been the worst day ever, I never get to have any fun, sulky face, whiny talk & meanie face pictures. Now this is after we have had a FABULOUS day, riden tons of rides, eaten decadent junk food not normally allowed at home, seen characters and shopped our brains out, but let one little thing not go her way & it's a poor me melt down that drives us to the brink of parental hysteria! Doesn't she know how much this costs? Then one of us says to the other "I don't know why we even bother doing this every year." but I know we are both thinking ... because this is for us too! Yahoo Disney! Can't wait till they're all in college and it can be ALL about us.

 

[AKGAL]

As you can probably guess from my siggy, we have our share of sibling fights. However, it was the weirdest thing - we went to WDW for 6 nights, and did the 3 night cruise, and they didn't even bicker ONCE! They held hands in the parks, hugged each other, used their gift cards to buy each other pins... However, the magic was over the minute we got home - the very instant!

These stories are so funny!

I can only wish. That would be some disney magic.

I always tell people that I have 2 children--my 2 year old and my husband. My husband and I have gotten into some real screaming matches on vacations. Why? Because his a man, he is never wrong, and he will never, ever ask for directions even when we are hopelessly lost. Honestly, I know this sounds bad, but we are the type of couple that can not spend every waking moment together because he get on each other's last nerve. DH is strictly Type A and I am.....not. So you can imagine it causes alot of problems.

Earlier this summer we went on vacation and I had tell my DH, not my DS, to behave or else.

I already told him that I was not going to spend an obscene amount of money going Disney and have him behave worse than our child. So far, no comments from the peanut gallery..so we shall see.......

That is so true. Sometimes I understand why people have trips without the spouse. They can be so unruley compared to the kids.

Well I guess I am a mean mom. IF we have problems, we just round the kids up and leave. It comes from having annual passes to Disneyland for years and years. IF the kids don't behave we leave, I am not putting up with fights or spoiled rotten behavior. I do it in Florida too. One time my daugher who was probably 7 didn't keep up with us, got lost and then wasn't too apologetic about it so we just up and left Islands of adventure and went back to the hotel. I am not blazing in the heat in the middle of august with kids that can't follow the rules. So we went back to the hotel and stayed there no pool or anything til dinner. Keep in mind she had been going to Disneyland since she was months old and walking and keeping up there in crowds and so forth, she just decided that that day she wasn't going to listen.

Then on our way back down to FT. Lauderdale my kids decided to pitch a fit over the guitars the hard rock hotel had given them and used them to bop each other on the head with them. I put up with it for about 30 miles of knock it offs and so forth then told everyone of them to give me their darn guitars and I pitched them out the window. Problem solved, the rest of the trip was quiet.

I don't care where I am or how much someplace costs me if people in my family can't keep basic manners going we are out of there. There will be other trips, other vacations, other meals and other rides. Why should I put myself through misery to have a half hour of a parade a day be my magic time?

So true, I know when my daughter is older she will refer to me as mommy dearest. I have spent a dinner in the lounge of the powder room since I do not tolerate misbehavor in a restaurant. I guess it is because I waitressed through college to pay for it and had to suffer through others rotten children, not to have one of my own. I dont want to ruin everyone elses night just because she desides to ruin mine.


I am staying at the Grand Floridian. Hopefully DH and DD will behave for the 10 days. I am already stock piling the small brib gifts. Now what do I do for DD??

 

[pyrxtc]

Then on our way back down to FT. Lauderdale my kids decided to pitch a fit over the guitars the hard rock hotel had given them and used them to bop each other on the head with them. I put up with it for about 30 miles of knock it offs and so forth then told everyone of them to give me their darn guitars and I pitched them out the window. Problem solved, the rest of the trip was quiet.

I have so been there, done that ! The first thing my DD remembers me throwing our the window was barrettes that she had taken out of her hair and kept chewing on them. They were out the window after some arguing from her cuz she wouldn't keep them in her hair. Since then, all my kids have seen stuff go out the window whehn they fight over it in the car. If at home, it goes in the trash or give-away. Sometimes you just can't take it any longer!

 

[RMulieri]

After reading all these posts and lmao, and knowing my ability to lose it very easily with Dh and swear so bad i can make a sailor blush..Do you think it would be out of line to ask my Dr for some valium for the trip?

 

[momgjgc]

My DH who refuses to help plan the vacation except to say he doesn't want to wait for dinner. He has gone for the past 3 years he knows better even if we arrive early. After waiting 90 minutes at Coral Reef and then arriving early for Rose and Crown and being told 20 minutes he starts with the why are we waiting, all we do is wait. He is worse than the 3 kids who can be easily distracted to look at the ducks. They try to seat us broken into 2 tables, not going to happen especially with a table between us. My husband says great can the kids(6,5, 3 and 1) sit by themselves because that would make my day, no more complaining. Look who's talking! I lost it and told him to enjoy his vacation with the kids and his parents I was going back to the room.

 

[JustineMarie]

We were "that Family" last week at Blizzard Beach. We decided to head over there later in the day, around 2, bc the cm at the front desk said that the water parks start to clear out around then. We had a great time for the first hour, no lines, got to do every single slide, etc. My 2 girls, 6 & 9, got in line for the thingy that you hang on to and it drops you into the water? not sure what the name is, but it's in the ski school section. They both did it once and made out fine. My DH and I were standing at the bottom of the pool while the 2 girls went to get back in line. It was a longer line and we saw commotion up there so I went up to see what was going on. Here my 2 crumbmunchers are up there fighting. Tate slapped Payton in the face to which she had a huge welt and payton pinched Tate's back so bad that it was red and swollen. I snatched the 2 of them up, marched them right over to our locker and took their butts back to the hotel room. They cried the entire way, as they were only at the park for an hour, and they couldn't believe that I was making them leave. Me and my DH didn't say a word to them the entire time. When we got back to the hotel room, they got in their pj's and went to bed. We did not do anything else that night but sit in that hotel room. The next morning I heard my oldest say to my youngest, today let's try not to fight bc I'm not staying in this hotel room all day again. And they didn't. It was a good day. I don't think they thought we would take them home! Little creeps!

 

[lilybrooke14]

DH and I had an argument at AK and then I burst into tears and actually said "this is supposed to be the happiest place on earth and I'm not friggin happy." Without missing a beat DH said "no dear, that's Magic Kingdom. You can be cranky here."

I rarely actually "LOL" at the computer, but I totally about spit my coffee on the screen.

 

[surfergirl602]

We have the "who gets to push the elevator button" argument quite frequently!!!

 

[debraW76]

This thread is hilarious!!!
We were (probably are) the family that is still argueing about who is riding with whom as we are getting on the ride. Yes, sorry - that is us.

 

[OnourwaytoWDW]

We were that family too . . .

It was Sept 2006, and I was there with DD5, and my MIL , and my DH's aunt. We were going into AK, they were riding ECV's, I was walking. As you all know it is about 200 degrees hotter in AK. I was hot, tired and really cranky. My MIL ran my foot over about a dozen times, and I got really mad. I yelled at her and told her if she ran my f ing foot over one more time I would drive that ECV over her and park it up her A. Well needless to say, she never ran my foot over again. I never talked to her, let alone anyone like that, expecially in the happiest place on earth. I felt so bad, it wasn't really loud so I don't think anyone heard, except her.

Then one day we went to Epcot and she bumped into me and said maybe we should see the park seperate, they would go one way and DD and I another.


I will never go on vacation with her again. This time it is just me and DD.


I must say I am laughing so hard at these.

OMG!!

 

[smiles&grins]

We leave in 15 days for a Grand Gathering of 27!! We have 11 kids age 2 1/2 to 16. I'm sure I will be able to fill up a full page by the time we get back. I'm waiting to see who will be the bad ones - the kids or the "grown-ups"!!!!
I do love my family! I do love my family! I do love my family! I do love my family! - RIGHT???

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

It's threads like this that make me glad that I have an only child

Oh trust me...we will have meltdowns over SOMETHING relatively stupid but we at least get to avoid the siblings death matches!!!!

 

[crisi]

We had a screaming tizzy fit in Boma - and couldn't remove our tantrumer because she would have kicked other guests in the head if we tried to carry her out (and no way was she going on her own). It was this moment my husband picked to be consistant in discipline and not give in to her desire to have a dinner of strawberries.

Same trip, same daughter sat in the stroller crying while four grown ups tried to figure out what was wrong and we got a world of nasty looks for our poorly behaving child. Her tummy ache turned out to be holding it too long - and a potty trip put her in a good mood for the rest of the day.

(I try and assume that when I see bad behavior, I am simply seeing the worst moment in time - the moment most of us have when heat and whiny children and a big Visa bill get the best of us - or an ordinary normally well behaved child deciding to take a stand about having a spinny light thing. And if you and your children never have these moments, you've been blessed.)

 

[Trinity524]

We took our nephew last year and he said about 100 times:

Can we go back to the hotel so we can go in the pool?

 

[mommy4]

Thank you all! You have made me realize that I am not the worse mother on earth!
I know that we will have these moments on our trip! We have 3 boys, 7 (almost 8), 5, 3 1/2, and a 22 month diva with an attitude! The boys fight constantly and my beautiful princess is just that- a princess!
Just today, I had to walk down the hall after picking my 5 year old up from Kindergarten with my 3 year old CRAWLING down the hall - he was a bear today. Last week he was a race car and ran circles around me at car pool pick up for my older son!!
And, I also have a DH who refuses to help me plan and then will ultimately blame me for any problems.
Still, I can't wait for WDW!!

 

[seashellmom]

Oh thank goodness - I thought it was only my kids who would probably kill each over who gets to push the elevator button. Some years we actually had to have assigned days. No less this was when we stayed at the GF. Sometimes I felt like the Beverly Hillbillies meet the Grand Floridian!

No, we were that family! My 3 1/2 yo old would take off running every time we entered the GCH at the Poly to press the elevator button before her 11 yo sister. It was kind of funny when we were not headed to the elevator. I thought they would have knock down drag outs about it. We usually let the little one do the outside button and the older to the actual floors. I was sooooo glad our room was on the 1st floor and we did not deal with the elevator to get to our room.

One time, me and the oldes dd were in the GCH and I was so used to them pressing the buttons, that we got in, the doors closed, then opened and we got off. I then realized we had never pressed a button and were still on the same floor. Hope nobody else saw that!

 

[bumbershoot]

The first thing my DD remembers me throwing our the window was barrettes that she had taken out of her hair and kept chewing on them. They were out the window after some arguing from her cuz she wouldn't keep them in her hair. Since then, all my kids have seen stuff go out the window whehn they fight over it in the car. If at home, it goes in the trash or give-away. Sometimes you just can't take it any longer!

There are still people who throw stuff out of car windows????

Don't try that move in WA or CA; that's a hefty, huge, fine if you're seen by a police officer. And creates more work for those who "adopt" highways.

And having been the queen of flat tires, a barrette that lands in *just* the right way could end up finding its way into someone else's tire...I've had the MOST bizarre things cause flats over the years! For awhile I was keeping the things, then there were just too many over about a 5 year period, but I sure kept the Goodyear guys amused.

Don't throw stuff out of car windows, no matter how much you want to, it's just not nice.