REWIND Episode 83: How I REALLY Felt About Going on Vacation Without My Infant

And so today's topic is one that I honestly meant to bring you a lot sooner.

So my husband and I, we took a trip, just the two of us, to the US Virgin Islands back at the end of January, basically early February.

And we left our baby boy back at home with grandma.

He was eight months at the time and we did not bring him with us.

That was not an option.

And I had a lot of feelings about leaving him home to take this trip, like well before the trip when we booked it.

And I think we booked it when he was like four months old.

And so, yeah, a lot of feelings between then and when we actually took the trip.

And then of course, a lot of feelings during the trip in our time away from him.

And I just wanna be really open and honest about those feelings that I have.

I wanna have this conversation because this is one of the main things I see holding back moms from taking a vacation for years and years.

And taking a vacation in general and especially taking a vacation without the kids.

And just like last week's episode where I talked about how obsessed I am with girls trips, I am equally obsessed with any kind of trip where you do not take the kids.

And I hope that I don't come across as like saying like, you're gonna have better travel experiences if the kids don't come.

I think that, instilling a sense of travel and adventure in our kids is so amazing.

I'm so excited about a trip we do have planned with baby boy coming up later this summer.

I'm so excited about future travel adventures that I get to have with him.

And there's plenty of trips that I do want to bring him along with me.

But there's also trips that I want to go just with my husband.

And there's also trips I want to go just with my two best friends.

So anyways, I intended, and I think I even mentioned it on the show, but I intended to bring you this topic a couple of weeks after we got back, like kind of fresh after we were back.