I am to the point right now thatI just want my kids to get the dreaded sv* and get it over with. Every year at least two of them get it and sometimes my hubby and me, and then it seems like that's it. I am obsessed with worrying about whether they will get it and Christmas will be ruined (happened three years ago--my then 1-yr old caught it for Christmas and then everyone except my daughter caught it the day we had rescheduled my family's Christmas party).


Also, my husband and I are going away for four nights to the Bahamas in January--the first time we have gone on vacation without the kids. They are staying with my il's who I know will take fabulous care of them--I'm not worried about that part of it at all. I am just worried that 1) the kids will get the sv* while I'm gone and I won't be there for them 2) that Ior hubby will get it while we are in the Bahamas and our trip will be ruined or WORSTOF ALL 3) that I will feel s* on the airplane and be trapped.


I HATE THIS!!!! Why can't I just be excited about Christmas and enjoy my kids? They won't be little forever and I am missing it! Why can't I just be excited about this wonderful vacationI am taking?????????? I'm so consumed by worry I'm not getting anything done for the holidays (baking, wrapping presents--all the stuff I LIKE to do) because I feel like I am on "alert." This Friday my son is having a couple of friends here for a sleepover and I know I won't sleep all night worried that one of them will wake up and v*.


What do you guys do to get rid of these thoughts???? I know I should probably start therapy for this, get drugs, something, but right now it's just not possible (no insurance, no time now for anything to work before the trip anyway).


Thanks forreading if you got throughit.