I am leaving to go see my brother's family and the anxiety has been unexpectedly building the closer that I get to going. The anxiety is two-fold. There is traveling with the storm that has come through here in the east, the delays, cancellations, and of course airport security-pat downs or whatever, which seems ridiculous to me that I'd be so nervous as I used to travel all of the time yet I am stressed about it. I am ready in case I were to get stuck somewhere and that's really all I can do. Then once I get to where I am going, the house has always been one of chaos, but now there is a new baby whom I am excited to meet on one hand and on the other I can only imagine. I am really looking forward to seeing all of them; I also know how fighting to keep a routine and not being able to keep it upsets my symptoms. This is what concerns me. Last time I went, it took weeks to get back in line once I got back.

I really need to stop thinking about it and take each moment as it comes. I'm just hoping somehow I can make this trip different so as to not be so unsettling. Does anyone have any suggestions for traveling and to cope with such a change in routine?