I Don't Get It

[3kidzmama]

I couldn't go without my kids, personally....I'd feel guilty and I'd MISS them terribly. We have taken them many times over the years and we have awesome memories.

But, if I lived near DL and had annual passes, I could see going without them occasionally.

Wierd, me and hubby just had this discussion last night because one of our single DCM is taking her kids for Christmas and she was telling me that over Thanksgiving their Dad went with his girlfriend and her two kids, but left his own two (7 and 3 years old)behind......no way I could do THAT.

WOW. That's worse if you ask me... taking someone elses kids and leaving your own at home?? That's really bad!!!

[Meeko]

Oh, Disneyland can be VERY romantic. You should see the storybook weddings they have......to DIE for.

My SIL had her wedding there complete with Cinderella coach. It was amazing. For dessert we had white chocolate Cinderella slippers filled with raspberries. So elegant! A cake like the castle etc. However...it cost her $25,000 and I could never see the sense in that!

[daycare]

If we lived as close as a few of you do, I wouldn't think twice about it... but we are in Arkansas, so it's a LONG way to disneyland. The trip alone is a huge expense in airfare and hotel/food costs, not to mention the entry fees. Its thousands of dollars we are talking here. It just seems strange to me. :confused::confused::confused:

oh wow NO way!! i would not go that far without them on a trip like that. SOrry I thought you lived in S.Cali.....

I could never do that to my kids. Even if it was for my Anniversary or a wedding, My kid would be going..

Awe poor kid......

[sharlan]

I couldn't go without my kids, personally....I'd feel guilty and I'd MISS them terribly. We have taken them many times over the years and we have awesome memories.

But, if I lived near DL and had annual passes, I could see going without them occasionally.

Wierd, me and hubby just had this discussion last night because one of our single DCM is taking her kids for Christmas and she was telling me that over Thanksgiving their Dad went with his girlfriend and her two kids, but left his own two (7 and 3 years old)behind......no way I could do THAT.

That is so wrong is so many ways. I feel guilty taking the 2 younger boys while the older kids are at school. They all go so often that it's really not that big of a deal to them.

In all honesty, the DCM would be better off not taking the kids for Christmas and waiting until later. The week before and after Christmas are their busiest two weeks of the year.

[Nellie]

If we lived as close as a few of you do, I wouldn't think twice about it... but we are in Arkansas, so it's a LONG way to disneyland. The trip alone is a huge expense in airfare and hotel/food costs, not to mention the entry fees. Its thousands of dollars we are talking here. It just seems strange to me. :confused::confused::confused:

I agree. Those who live closer or are wealthy enough to go multiple times in there life I think it would be very fun to go with out the kids. I had an Aunt and Uncle that lived in MN and they went on an 7 day aniversary trip every year after Thanksgiving to FL(most of the time) with out the kids. I don't know if they nessisarly went to Disney or not, but a very nice trip. Then in the summer they took a week to 2 week vacation with the kids to Disney every year. I'll throw in that she did home daycare and was very successful at it. She was the bread winner of the family. She did work at a health insurance company one or two evenings a week and every other or every third weekend so that they were able to have health insurance. Very off subject, but she charged for 3 weeks of vacation a year, holidays, and every one paid for full time.

I would like to be able to try to get my family there at least once

[Blackcat31]

I had a daycare mom who went last year with her tax return. She took her 13 year old but left her 4 yr old home with grandma and grandma brought him to daycare everyday the whole 10 days mom was gone.

It is bad enough that she took one kid and left the other but this mom is also on state assistance so was royally PO'ed when she returned and i gave her a bill fo rher 4 yr olds care while she was gone! I mean, why should the tax payers pay for her kid to be in care while she was off playing with Mickey?!

FWIW~ I have NEVER been to Disney Land or Disney World.

My dad and step-mother went a few years back as an anniversary gift to themselves. They said there is a lot of things there geared for adults only.

[new member]

Babofmiracles

some times people do strange things as if they didnt have children it couldnt be me n my daughter is almost 18

[familyschoolcare]

Which is stranger?

So which do you think would be stranger.

Going to Disneyland without the children, or taking a nanny with you?

This is asuming you live far enougph away that it would be a vaction not a daytrip.

I know a family that highers a nanny to take with them on every vaction.

[MarinaVanessa]

We go Disneyland without the kids. We've done it a few times actually. But then again we take the kids on a seperate trip also. There's just so much that you can see and do at Disneyland that we don't get a chance to do with the kids. We take the kiddos on a trip first, do what they want to do, lug around their stuff etc. Then we go back a few weeks later for an adult trip and leave the kids with a sitter. It's a couple of hours drive for us so we can drive out there, stay until the park closes and then drive back home the same night.

[youretooloud]

My kids are adults, and we only go to Vegas without them.

But, I want to go to Disney World with only my husband soon... I feel guilty about it, but I'll get over it.

[daycare]

So which do you think would be stranger.

Going to Disneyland without the children, or taking a nanny with you?

This is asuming you live far enougph away that it would be a vaction not a daytrip.

I know a family that highers a nanny to take with them on every vaction.

if I could afford a nanny to take on vacation with me, I would not belong to this form #1, but I would do it in a hearbeat and my kids would go EVERY WHERE I go.....well every where except vegas...

[MarinaVanessa]

I had to giggle at the comments about not taking your kids to Vegas because we just took our kids to Vegas last weekend ::. My fiance and I were going to an Andrea Bocelli concert last weekend with his mom and dad and his brother and wife joined us also. Well wouldn't you know it that my DD said she wanted to go to Las Vegas for her 7th bday . We were already going to be there and weren't planning a party weekend so we indulged her and took both of our kids. We took her to the shark reef, lions, Rain forest cafe, fountains, M&M store etc. She loved it.

And this weekend we're heading right back (leaving as soon as my last DC kiddo gets picked up) for a grown up only trip and we're leaving the kiddos with my mom. I have to admit, only MY kid would ask to go to Vegas for her bday and only WE would indulge her ::.

[youretooloud]

I had to giggle at the comments about not taking your kids to Vegas because we just took our kids to Vegas last weekend ::.

I don't live too far from Vegas, so If I go there, it's more about the "Grown up" time, than about the vacation it'self.

[daycare]

hahahhah sorry, Vegas to me is like Adult Disneyland.....the only reason that I go to vegas every year for the last 15 years.Ok this sounds horrible................... is that there are NO KIDS.... I love kids, but vacation for me is a place without them.....
But thats cool that you took your daughter and found things to do....

We also plan two major family trips with everyone every year too. Disneyland is one of them....

[frgsonmysox]

We are big on spending as much time together as a family. We even take the kids out on our Anniversary day, but do try to do a date night once a month. I couldn't imagine going somewhere like Disneyland without them! We did a week long vacation to South Dakota last year and we talked about how different it would be when the kids are all gone and we go places like that by ourselves. For now we enjoy doing family things with them.