Am I Ready?

In a couple weeks, Eric and I will be headed for a weekend trip to DC.  I am so excited.  I have never really had the chance to travel very much, and I know it's not very far, but I'm glad I'm finally able to "go somewhere". 

This will be mine and Eric's first alone trip since our honeymoon almost 6 years ago.  It's kind of funny how this all came about.

Most of you probably know that I collect postcards and trade with people on a couple different forums.  The main one I go to is Postcrossing (www.postcrossing.com).  Postcrossing itself has it's own sub-forum (http://forum.postcrossing.com) which is where a lot of my trade cards come from.  But anyway.  There is a section on the site for Meet-Ups!  I always thought that was pretty cool.  A meet-up is basically where postcrossers from a certain area designate a time and a place to meet.  Everyone usually brings postcards for everyone to sign, and then send off to their friends.  So if you're one of the "chosen ones", you get a postcard with everyone's signature from the meeting.  They also do regular touristy, sightseeing things as well. 

Usually these meet-ups are in another country or in a part of the US I'd probably not have the chance to travel to (usually because of distance) like Washington, California, etc.  I noticed a couple months ago though that one of my friends in Virginia was organizing a meet-up for DC.  That's do-able!  I really wanted to go.  I'm not really good with driving places that I've never been though, so I'd have to have someone else come with me to drive.  That's where Eric came in.  I knew he'd want to go, anyway.  So I talked it over with him and he gave me the go ahead to sign up. 

I had originally planned to take the boys with us.  I figured while I was doing my "postcard stuff", Eric could stay in the hotel with the boys.  Then when it was time to tour and site-see, they could come along.  But then I got to thinking about it.  No one else was going to have their children with them.  Did I really want to tour DC with an extremely moody and tantrum throwing toddler?  No way!  I didn't figure they would have very much fun anyway.  So I asked my mom if she would keep the boys so Eric and I could go.  I was expecting her to say no.  But she surprised me and agreed! 

I've been excited about this trip for a while now, but now that it's getting closer, I'm getting nervous.  I have never left the kids for that long.  Logan has spent the night with my mom once.  Chris wanted to spend the night with her, and I let him, but he ended up wanting to come home.  So me being gone for two and a half days is a pretty big deal.  I don't know if I have it in me to leave them for that long, haha. 

Even if I am able to do it, I have a thousand questions running through my head, being the dramatic person and worrier that I am ;)
Will they think I have abandoned them?  Will they think I don't love them anymore?  What if they act crazy and give my mom a hard time? 

I guess I just need to put it in God's hands and trust that everything will be okay :)