I remember the first trip to the Walt Disney World Resort that I planned as an adult for my family. I was positively giddy. At the time, we only had one child who was six years old and he was excited, too, but really, my excitement level was off the chart. We made charts for our saving money plan and count-down calendars and we talked about it almost every week for about six months. It was wild.<\/p>\n
Recently, there was a video on You Tube where parents surprised their six year old for her birthday with a trip to Disneyland. They were pretty much leaving that night and she had no clue that her parents had planned such a treat. She cried and cried and cried and was so overwhelmed with emotion that it just tugged at your heart!<\/p>\n
A couple of years ago, a dear friend of mine booked her family\u2019s trip to the World and decided that she was going to semi-surprise her kids. She planned a sort of treasure hunt around the house, giving clues that would lead to the big surprise: They were going to Disney. The trip, however, was still several months away and so when the boys got to the end of their \u201chunt\u201d, their excitement level was a little less than, shall we say, enthusiastic.<\/p>\n
My friend was devastated because she did not get the response she was hoping for whereas the family in the You Tube video probably had no idea they\u2019d get such a huge reaction from their daughter. When I think about all of these scenarios I think about how as much as we say that we are planning these trips for our families, on some level, they are a lot about us. We want to give our families a great vacation, we want to see them smile, and we want to give them joy\u2026because it makes us feel good, too.<\/p>\n
That very first trip found my dear husband being very excited with the whole planning process and the thoughts of his first ever Disney vacation. By the fourth time we\u2019d gone, not so much. I\u2019ve come to realize that I can carry the excitement level for the whole family because I can go back to Disney time and time again and still feel the giddiness and amazement that I felt the very first time I went back in 1974.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d continue to plan family vacations to Disney if my kids weren\u2019t excited about them. I mean, it\u2019s hard to not be excited once you get there but in the planning stages, I want to see the anticipation on their faces. You don\u2019t see any commercials with kids pitching a fit over their parents booking a trip for them to Disney\u2026you see the wonder, the magic. That is what I want to see because then it is truly a family vacation.<\/p>\n
Getting that amazing moment of shock, awe and surprise when you tell your kids about your trip is priceless, there is no doubt, but don\u2019t base your whole vacation experience on it. Some people need to actually BE there before their excitement level shines through and no matter what, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll end up with a magical vacation. I remember the first trip to the Walt Disney World Resort that I planned as an adult for my family. I was positively giddy. At the time, we only had one child who was six years old and he was excited, too, but really, my excitement level was off the chart. We made charts for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85872,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions\/85872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDisneyland Surprise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"