As y’all might know, if you’ve read my little bio on here, I am a very anxious person. Because of this, trips and vacations can be a little daunting. Let me clarify-trips and vacations with my family can be daunting. Something about traveling with my friends doesn’t make me worry like traveling with my family does. I guess they’re my happy place or something cheesy like that. Needless to say, when I found out I would be going to the beach with my family and my brother-in-law’s mother at the end of June I was kind of terrified. You might be thinking, “Why would a relaxing beach trip ever be scary?” For one thing it was going to be Grace’s first actual vacation and 8+ hours in a car with a 3 year old isn’t my idea of fun. So here’s some tips I gathered from this excursion.