The Anxieties of Traveling

We leave this afternoon to start our vacation. The plan is: we will head up to Denver tomorrow afternoon, stay the night in a hotel close to the airport, then fly to Florida in the morning. We will then spend a glorious (hopefully) week doing nothing but playing and swimming and sleeping and going to the beach. To get to that glorious week we have to counter all the stress, anxiety and fear of the unknown that comes with traveling with a 16 month old that has not done much traveling in his short life.
I have been a nervous wreak! I am making lists like a mad woman hoping we have enough activity to keep him busy for a 3 hour plane ride. Plus making sure we have enough comforts from home not to get home sick will not over packing. Poor Ethan, he is definitely feeling Mommy's stress. The past few days have been filled with whining and crying and tantrums. Not to mention that he's teething. The only thing that really keeps it at bay is being outside.
So, just to add to the already stressful event, we are under an extreme warning advisory! It snowed all morning and the roads were getting slick when I left work to get Ethan from my mom's. Thankfully it stopped snowing around 2 and everything on the roads melted, let's just hope that was it for the storm. We have had more snow this month than we did all winter!