So at the end of the week, I'm taking my kids on a vacation. My parents rented a 2-bedroom condo in Ocean Beach Maryland and the 5 of us (my parents, me and the girls) are going to stay there 5 nights, after first traveling to my parents house in Pennsylvania for one night before caravaning to the beach. I agreed to the trip a few weeks back without hesitation because, as stressful as traveling with two crazy kids is, I'm sure I'll enjoy it and I haven't seen my dad since Christmas, and they haven't seen their grandkids in just as long.
But now I'm starting to worry. I feel like, over the past month, I've been being fairly lax about hand washing diligence and maintaining proper distancing when out. I mean, anytime I have the girls, they don't leave the house (or the car if we run out to get snacks and food). We always wear our masks but, the cases in Connecticut have greatly declined and are not spiking like they are elsewhere in the country. In fact, our state has a mandatory 2-week quarantine if you so much as visit one of the nearly 2-dozen states listed and deemed as "hot spots." So I've kinda let my guard down.
But now we're going to a vacation spot, staying in a condo complex, inevitably being out and about. Maryland isn't quite a "hot spot" right now (at least, not as determined by Connecticut's standards)... but I'm wary that either the girls or I will greatly increase our chances of carrying the virus back home and, vicariously, passing it along to other loved ones. Not to mention, staying in PA at my parents the first night - they've been mostly following "the rules" of their state and working from home the past serveral months (as far as I know) but... how can I trust it will be ok?
Maybe I'm just overthinking it. Its too late to cancel now...and I DO want to go... just, getting some unanticipated anxiety about it all now.