Franrose
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2011
Fran, I had a wake up moment a few years ago which made me decide that these trips were really important. My DH and I worked hard pre-kids to really smash our mortgage. When the kids came along we were still pretty much in the same mindset and saving for our big trip in 2015. Then I realized how magic toddlerhood is and started imagining how my kids would react to different things in Disneyland. We decided we couldn't wait, so off we went to Japan. It was so fun (of course!) and some of those memories are burnt into my memory so strongly. The kids still talk about it and DH and I are always saying things like "imagine DS3 when he sees Mickey...". Our 2015 savings are still going strong, but now we have added Disneyland next year as well. The mortgage isn't decreasing as much, but it's just a house. We aren't going to have any lasting memories of reaching $200k on our mortgage, but our Mickey memories aren't going anywhere
I kind of had a wake up moment too when a new Dr I had intimated to me a couple of years ago that I quite likely had cancer and literally told me she hoped I'd be ok... With hindsight, I now know she was a panicky sort of Dr (very nice, but way OTT with everything, she'd happily call you back into her office three times in a week over something very minor) but it was my second ever visit to her and I didn't have that background so I spent a weekend thinking life was possibly about to change in a big way. Even though I turned out to be in full health, it hit home to me how quickly things *can* change, and that was when we decided to do our September trip last year. I had originally thought the kids were too young, in that they wouldn't remember - but they do remember, and like you I have all those precious memories of seeing Disney through their eyes at that lovely age where they still quite literally believe.