Are we there YET?

Daily Lesson:

Vacation is a chance to recharge your heart & soul 

before the next round of "life" happens

As I sit in my gray cubical, I look around and the only excitement I feel is for that fabulous homemade cupcake I just devoured and the 8x10 picture framed next to my monitor of Shiloh, Jared and I.  

I am itching to blow this chicken coop and get this party started already!

Our 10 day vacation is arms length away and I can smell the relaxation from here. The beach air, wrapped up in a blanket with my family on Driftwood Beach in Jekyll Island - my camera and no cleaning up on Thanksgiving Day or over eating for me this year. Back to the Basics.

This trip is more than a road trip and sightseeing for me. This is both a physical journey from point A to B but most importantly an emotional journey to take my marriage to the next level of happiness. 

It happens to the best of us, after nearly 13 years of dating, courting, marriage and children - a couple enters a rut in the relationship where nothing is easy and the love is some what lost. It has been at times heart breaking and moments of a sense of failure to acknowledge where our marriage has gone momentarily. This is where you either get off the highway or rebuild the road.

I am fighting for a renewal of both mind and heart for myself and for my marriage. I have every ounce of faith in the world, that all we need is a little R&R and a reminder of what has kept us together almost 13 years in the first place. After all 13 years is long time - not to mention we have made it through tougher times than this.

After many nights praying, crying and asking God for direction. I knew without a doubt it was time for a ROAD TRIP!                                         (apply the brakes here) 

If you know me at all, you know I am more of a tropical gal -easy breezy - effortless travel - someone else gets me to paradise with a package of peanuts and a spritzer in hand, kind of vacation is usually on the itinerary.

Why a road trip on the busiest holiday to travel, away from all Black Friday shopping festivities, to the beach where it is cold and no chance of a much needed tan, you ask?

Because I want to snuggle and be alone with my family this Thanksgiving to fall back in LOVE ♥

There is something widely romantic about tossing tradition aside to be alone some where new with my husband and beautiful daughter, Shiloh. The next thought in my head is "don't forget the DVD player for the car ride...or else!" 

We will pack tonight and cram it all into my cute little Ford Flex tomorrow and wake up bright and early on Thursday and set sail up the Eastern Sea Board making stops at all the beautiful places inbetween and on the way to Breathtaking Jekyll Island - Drift wood Beach, Historical Savannah, Angel Oak, Magnolia Plantation & Beloved Charleston, South Carolina and back. Follow me as I blog & post pictures of our journey in revamping our love on our first road trip.

 ♥Tasha