We were "that" family

[kimsuenew]

(Inspired by the "happiest place on earth" thread)

In case anyone missed them, I would like to share some memorable lines from our recent WDW vacation that probably had other people shaking their heads in wonder.

- "Oh, yeah? Then I'll just take the monorail back to the resort!!" from 5 year old Kira on learning that she wasn't going to get her wish of the moment.

- "I will NOT go in there and you can't make me!!" from 10 year old Brian who developed a sudden and earth shattering fear of costumed characters. No big deal, right? Except that "there" was Chef Mickey's, it was our first night, he was terrified, and the rest of the family was already in and seated.

- "What do you mean you don't know where she is????" from my husband when Kira ran ahead of me to our longhouse, pressed the wrong elevator key, and disappeared for 15 minutes. I would imagine that if you were anywhere in the zip code at the time, you probably heard this one.

-"You never buy me anything!!" from 8 year old Julia, wanting a $46 purse in a store.

And on and on it goes. We had a wonderful time, but did have our moments!!!

Will anyone else admit to being "THAT" family or was it just us??

LOL

 

[eduk8r26]

These are all so funny! I don't remember having any episodes at Disney, but at Knott's with 2 of my nephews who were brothers and hated each other. We were eating dinner and they got into a fight which escalated to throwing ice and ranch dressing at each other. Talk about being embarrassed! I swore then and there I would never take the two of them anywhere again. And I don't think I ever did.

 

[TinkandAriel]

my biggest problem is my fil who acts like an 8yo...he constantly tries to antagonize my dd, who now tells him "grumpa, grow up".
Oh, I just pop a xanax every night and the next day I'm good to go....

 

[DVC Sadie]

my biggest problem is my fil who acts like an 8yo...he constantly tries to antagonize my dd, who now tells him "grumpa, grow up".
Oh, I just pop a xanax every night and the next day I'm good to go....

You are one smart mother!

I have to admit that I have had to have xanax on hand while vacationing with my family. It literally saved my life and the lives of a few others.

 

[SLK1]

I was very embarrassed when my husband and I took my out of town parents to the California Grill to celebrate his promotion. My dad looked at the menu, wrinkled his nose, and asked the very patient waiter, "You got any saltines?". We haven't taken them anywhere nicer than Olive Garden since!

 

[ekball]

Yup - we were "that family" a lot on our vacation! (as hard as we tried not to be)

Aside from my kids being way too noisy in our room (and we are over-the-top when it comes to trying to keep them quiet and respectful of our 'neighbors').... They were the ones always racing down the halls to push elevator buttons first, and racing to get to the doors all week so they could say (yell) "OPEN SESAME!" first. EVERY SINGLE TIME we left (or came back to) our room. Every time.

We also were able to bless a monorail full of happy vacationers with my screaming daughter in the middle of a full blown meltdown traveling from the Poly to the Grand Floridian (although I did apologize to everyone before we even boarded! ). My poor husband was holding her and trying his best to 'contain' her, and she was just nutso. This was after we left Kona (before even checking in at the podium) because she couldn't control herself. Mom and Dad decided to scrap the dinner and just eat in our room, for the sake of our sanity and of those around us. NOT a fun eveninig.

 

[parmtoo]

...and as we were getting ready to go to MNSSHP when a cast member called my daughter a beautiful princess (she was soooo proud of her dress) and my son corrected him saying, "No, she is a FAT princess!"


I remember those days! Dropping the "FAT" word to a sister, can be a boys biggest pleasure!

 

[kkmcan]

OMG, this exact same thing happened to my friend when we got off Splash in Disneyland over the summer! And the funny thing is is his name is David too! We were running all over screaming out his name. His was almost out of Critter Country when a dad found him and started trying to find my friend.

Well, on Saturday morning, 8/16, we were the family that lost their son coming off Splash Mountain. I stopped to check the photo, DH had DD and DS. I was waiting in line and looked over. Uh, where's DS?

Go looking. And keep going. I start freaking out. and running. and shouting. He was well on his way to BTMRR. Luckily he realized we weren't with him and got upset. Some people stopped him and I caught up to him.

So if you saw or heard me calling "David!" around 10:30 that day near SM, yeah, that was my family.

 

[kkmcan]

I forgot to post our "that family" scenario. We had absolutely had it with the complaining, whining, fighting etc between our two kids and we were getting ready to head out to DL on our 2nd day there. It was some more endless fighting and complaining and DH said that's it! We are not going to the park this morning. Instead we will stay here (in the hotel) and you two can catch up on homework. Yes, we took them out of school for 2 days and they had to bring homework with them.

So we set them up at the table to do work. We ended up missing out on a very important morning chance at getting on the rides without a wait but oh well, the kids needed to know we meant business when we said we won't go into the park if it doesn't stop.

Funny thing is, is that this was one of our best trips to DL! It seemed so awful at the time but all in all it was our most relaxing and fun trip!

 

[FreFam5]

I'm am laughing out loud at some of these posts!

Seems as if quite a few of us will be there in October - if I see a child in the midst of a tantrum or a husband in the mist of a mantrum maybe I'll go up and ask if they are "that family from the Dis"!!!!!

 

[nkess]

Several years ago, we traveled with a group of 20 to Disney. We were enjoying the afternoon at Ol Man Island (the pool at Port Orleans Riverside). Because of the layout of the pool, it is not possible to see the entire swimming area from any one point on the deck.

I was sitting on the deck with my family members, when my DS (then 11) came walking over and calmly announced, "Guess what, I hit Glenn (ds14) in the nose with a football. I replied, "Is he ok?" DS11 answered, "He's fine- the lifeguards are with him." So I run over to the other side of the pool, and sure enough, there is DS14 sitting on a bench, being assisted by three life guards, (gloves, blood, towels, etc,) while a fourth lifeguard is mopping the blood of the deck.

I felt like the mother of the year, the one who does not keep an eye on her kids.

 

[Brer Shay]

Hmm I know if anyone was in front of Star Tours on Sept 27th, 2006 they would remmeber my mom and I arguing in front of the ride. My son (5 at the time) is a huge Star Wars fan, but got spooked before going on the ride.
My mom decided that if we were better parents and spanked him, he would know not to disagree with what we said to do. Oy-that did not go over too well with me!

So if you were there, my apologies for yelling, "You know where the bus picks up mother-if you want to go on this ride so bad go on and then go home!"
among other things. Our fight lasted about 15 minutes and she even followed my DH into the SW store to lecture him as well. My DH was so level headed during the whole thing and got my son on the ride calmly (which he ADORED) and had us move on for the day.

We are leaving grandma at home this trip!!!

We were there and heard your conversation!! I must admit to a very short-lived thought of you as "that family" until my son had similar issue about refusing to go to the Muppet 3D show and I had a similar conversation with my father, though we didn't get to mentioning the bus. My DH calmly said, "Whoa, deja vu on this conversation." Thanks for breaking our tension!

 

[pjzkent]

would love to read some more, 30 days til our next "that family" experience

 

[TotalSnowWhite]

We decided to go off-property for dinner the first night. I'm convinced that's where we went wrong.

I don't even remember what happened to cause the tension, but I do remember that the waiter was the only person to speak to any of us for the first thirty minutes of our dinner. Here we were, decked out in our Disney vacation wear, all with scowls on our faces. I'm sure the waiter just wrote it down in his Disney Downers notebook. We tipped him very well.

After a quick stop at Publix, we returned to the relaxing Poly and dropped gramma and the kids off at the room. My mom and I headed to the beach to enjoy mojitos. The rest of the trip was fairly uneventful, "that family"-wise.

 

[christa112]

We are leaving tomorrow and I am sure I will have some great ones when I get home!!!!

 

[Erin13178]

My dd and I were that family last Thursday, a week ago today. She was just way tired, and could not make up her mind. It had been brewing all day long, and finally The Jungle Cruise topped it off. First she wanted to go on The Jungle Cruise, so we waited in line for like 5 minutes with Mamaw and Papaw. Then she said she didn't want to go. Then she said she had to go pee. So we headed to the bathroom, and then she changed her mind she didn't have to go. Then she wanted to go on The Jungle Cruise. It was about 2pm, and I just frankly told her that she wasn't making sense and that we were going to go back to the hotel. Meltdown time. If you were in Adventureland around 2pm last Thursday, the child wildly flailing about in the stroller, screaming, crying, and puking in my hands, YEP that was us. I took her to the bathroom and tried to reason with her but it was way beyond that. I swatted her butt, changed her clothes, and we were off to the hotel. The fit continued all the way through the park and onto the bus back to the hotel, at which time she passed out.

I just have to say, for a 4 year old, she did really well all week long. She was very agreeable for the most part, she didn't whine much, and that was the only fit of the entire trip.

 

[RN2003AZ]

We woke up that morning and just knew it was going to be "that" day. We had been going (with breaks) all week and this was our last day so it was bound to happen. We had gone to DHS just to do Toy Story Mania a few times and a couple other things before heading back to relax before Chef Mickey's and MNSSHP. Did Toy Story, saw they 10:30 Playhouse Disney show and went to sit on a bench in front of Little Mermaid to reapply sunscreen. Needless to say, Zach wanted nothing to do with the sunscreen. Through a major fit, screaming, kicking, crying, throwing himself backwards when I would try to hold him... My DH and I plopped him in the stroller and promptly walked out (and gave away our FP for Toy Story for 12:30 )... with looks the entire way because he never stopped screaming. And he continued screaming all the way back to SSR . Didn't stop until he fell asleep around 1pm. Thank God he woke up a brand new kid for the rest of the night. And all I could think of was this thread!

 

[herodrx1]

These stories make me feel so much better about my kids!! Its good to know they are all the same.

I'll try to remember our latest stories after this trip!!

 

[3smithboys]

Last night we were that family too! I took my 3 boys (10, 5, 5) to our local pizza place before dropping my oldest DS at soccer. My DH was going to be home late so I figured it would be a nice treat for all of us to go. Well, DS 10 took it upon himself to take over DH's role and quickly began telling his brothers what to do. He was bossing them around...They would not just sit still. I know I was tired and cranky, but all of them were just getting on my last nerves.

While I was ordering the pizza at the counter, one of my twins came to stand next to me, and all of the sudden the woman next to me says to him, "Don't touch that." I look down and he had his hand under the splash guard and was touching the crust of one pizzas they use for individual slices - I was so embarrassed!!! She said that she was sorry for saying anything to him, but she was a teacher and it just came naturally. I quickly said, thank you and I'm a teacher too.... then I scooted him away.

After 20 agonizing minutes of bickering, we got back into the car. I starting yelling at them about their behavior and how was i going to take them to Disney World if they can't even go down the street for a slice of pizza! The car was dead silent..... and stayed that way until we got home!

 

[stm61]

oh yeah, we're always that family at least once on every vacation. This trip the girls wanted pixie dust and coloring from the barber shop. Fine, 2 of them needed trims desperately, I'll get that done at the same time. Well, one of them decided she did NOT want her hair cut, even if she couldn't see where she was going because her bangs were so long. This child is 9 1/2, but looks 11. She was so horrible in there that the barber gave ME pixie dust because he said I needed it more then anybody that day! This child turns into a horror every time she's around my mother and sister. So of course, who comes on vacation with us lol!
Our other that family moment was back at the hotel. All the kids had hw to complete, ds15 of course had more then the elementary age girls. He had been staying back in the hotel every morning with ds16 to "work on his hw", while I took the girls and the baby to a park. I discovered half way thru the week that he had completed absolutely nothing! In front of the entire conceirge staff, informed my darling ds that he would be spending the entire rest of his vacation at my side, with his books, no matter what park I was at. He would be doing hw while the others rode rides. I got the typical teenage "you hate me, you like them better, it's not fair, why did we have to come during school, etc, etc, etc" reply. I told the cm's to watch the 11 pm news if they didn't see ds again, my face would definately be on it!