We took the 3 kids to Disney for a family honeymoon six months after the wedding. I don't regret it because my daughter who is 12 had an absolute ball and kids knew each other better by then. (14, 15 and 12)

But, what you said is sooo true. This first year was soooo tough......maybe we'll go somewhere alone next year - I sure hope it gets smoother...

---Going on Year 2 next week!

We did take a honeymoon right after our reception. In fact we had to get up very early the next day to catch our flight to Jamaica. It was a wonderful trip. Since it was the first marriage for both of us we didn't want to skip the honeymoon. It was the first time that either of us had been out of the U.S. We did an all inclusive package and that was really great!

The honeymoon was over though as soon as we got back. This was before we had primary custody of ss. Bm was having some problems and couldn't deal with ss(5 at the time). We took him for a month straight and he went to school 30 min. away. Wow, that was pretty hard to do!

I guess it all worked out in the end. We've been married 6 years and Dh has primary custody of ss.

Dawn

that if we didn't go do something pretty darn close, or within the same summer, of getting married, it would never happen. So, I settled for Disneyland... it WAS NOT a honeymoon. It was a vacation. I would have rather not taken SS with us, but it was the only way I was going to get out of dodge, if you know what I mean. DH was having issues and I think feeling guilty because we already went to Hawaii a few years before without SS. Instead of arguing with him, I just figured, well... if SS is coming, we'll make it fun for him.

We did wait a month after we got married to go to Disneyland, so we could visit with family, wind down, and for school to be completely over with.

StepMom

Man has the intelligence to change his life,
Sometimes, he just fails to use it...

We waited to honeymoon until we were married for five years at first it was in fear of BM reaction(DH was with her on off again for almost five years and never proposed and we were married in less than two years) and we were right it wasn't pretty but then it just became impossible between our work and kids but then when we did get to it we really were able to just enjoy it since we weren't burnt out from all the matrimonial stuff and since BM wasn't aware of our plans she had no time to try to put her shadow in it which made it so much nicer.

Our wedding night was shared with the four kids. We never did get a honeymoon. We're coming up on our sixth wedding anniversary in December and we've never gone anywhere without at least two or more of our five kids. If we make it, I think we'd both like to do something spectacular when the kids are grown.

~ Anne ~

"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries."
(Truman Capote)