Before I draft my thread I just want to make it it clear i know how fortunate I am to be able to afford to go on holiday, I don’t take it for granted, this is just how I feel..
so tomorrow we are off on a uk break.. I need the time away as I’ve been non stop working the last 3 months, dd10 is super excited, DP is aswell, ds15 has asd and would much rather spend his half term sat in his bed gaming, but once he gets there he usually has a fab time. My anxiety reaches an all time high the day before and several times when we are away. Dd has travel sickness, sometimes it’s really bad sometimes it’s okay, despite this she’s been excitedly talking about her holiday for the last 5 months. She takes tabs and has the wristbands, we have sick bags in the car. I’m not the best traveller myself in that it makes me feel sick when I have to turn around in the car to help clean dd up. DP sometimes gets stressed if the roads are bad and then takes it out on me if I say something he doesn’t like, so the last couple of holidays I’ve not said a word and apparently that agitates him too… (this isn’t all the time, just in high stress situations) we have to plan everything the day or days before, DS 15 thrives on routine so he has to know what we are doing and when. Dd will do her packing with a little help from me, DS will only pack his backpack, I have to do his clothes, DP mostly does his but always gets me to remind him about stuff and I have to sort myself out, I put my foot down in that we only have breakfasts in the caravan, because I’m not spending my whole holiday cooking. DP was happy enough on that front. So we only cook breakfast and eat out for the dinner.
anyone else get holiday anxiety? How do you deal with it…