The greatest vacation known to man.

I am in desperate need of a vacation. This year has been a rough one, well that’s a lie. Not necessarily rough, just chaotic and testing on me. It all started back in December. We couldn’t afford to make it to my family’s annual Mexico vacation over Christmas, since we had just spent all our money on our wedding and our honeymoon to the Bahamas. Not being able to attend the Xmas vacay was extremely hard on me. This was my first Christmas married, and I wasn’t able to keep my own family traditions. I finally accepted I couldn’t go, and that I would be spending one of only about 4 Christmas’ I’ve ever spent here in the US and the only one without my family. We spent the morning with my in-laws, and that evening I stayed home while Jared went to his grandparents because I was anxiously awaiting a Skype call from my mom and dad. I waited all day for them to call me, and remember just breaking down in tears thinking I wouldn’t speak to them at all. Eventually they were able to call me, and I felt like I was in kindergarten, the second I heard my moms voice I got all choked up and could barely speak. Jared could see how much I was hurting not being able to see my family for 4 weeks during the holidays. He wanted to make my life better, like he always does {I married well}. So during our holiday vacation (about 4 days + the weekend), we took our own mini-vacation. My family was still gone and Jared and I needed some time for just us. During this vacation to add on to the heart ache my great grandma passed away. This news was more heart wrenching than ever, because I was dealing with it alone. My family was unreachable in Mexico. Of course, we came home early to go to her funeral and celebrate her life. It was a really rough month, and not the best way to start a year.

The next few months just seemed to drag by. Jared and I are used to going on that long vacation with my family during December, plus we would use some vacation days and go with his family to Cozumel in February. We’ve done this a few years in a row now. This year we just couldn’t make it happen. You know how you always feel like you need something to keep you motivated? No matter how much you love your job, you need those breaks to just breathe and not stress about alarms, emails, phone calls and deadlines.

Come June and we still hadn’t taken a vacation yet this year. Things got really crazy when I up and switched careers. I am sure a bunch of you know how nuts it is to do that. The new job is wonderful, and it was such a good move. When you’re at a new job the first couple months is stressful. Not only are you learning the systems, the people, the personalities and where you fit in, but you have to re-learn how to do things you would never think of. Like how to ask for time off, how to clock hours, when it’s okay to do/ say certain things. Every job has these “rules” but the longer you are there, the more they are just second nature. I was at my old job for almost 5 years so everything was built into my head. I have only been with Perfectly Posh for 3 months it’s like I know all the big stuff, but still tend to stress over those small things.

I am telling you all of this, because we have finally planned a vacation! I am taking a full week off. Saturday - Saturday. IWe are going to Lake Powell, with a houseboat, a ski boat, and really fun group of people. Even though it’s just a Lake trip i feel like this is the break I have been anticipating and needing this entire year, and more than ever this past few months. Lake Powell is one of my favorite places on earth. I used to go there every summer growing up, and some of my best memories are from Powell. Most of my crazy adventures, many of my scars come from Lake Powell. When you’re there you can swim, cliff jump, hike, lounge, see indian ruins, and relax! I cannot tell you how ready I am to swim in the warm water, sleep on the top of the boat, hang out in my swim wear all day long, and just be STRESS FREE! I have a count down going on the sidebar there, and man oh man… 21 DAYS! I cannot even wait. I think this will be my perfect release. A time to regain myself. Then I will be ready to come back and tackle the world!