the importance of a girls’ trip

I’ve seen the articles floating around on Facebook talking about just how important taking a girl getaway is and I recently took one!

I have to say I agree.

It’s not like I don’t ever go places with friends. In fact, the last few years have been pretty jam-packed with bachelorette weekends. But those weekends have an agenda and it’s not to sit around and relax.

As much fun as a bachelorette party is, you typically come home exhausted, not refreshed.

My recent girls’ trip happened to fall on my 30th birthday and it was such a great time with even greater friends!

People out at dinner often asked what the occasion for our vacation was–we’d tell how we had all 6 actually graduated high school together in the same small town and this was the year we all turned 30! They thought it was a cool reason for a trip.

I am lucky enough to get to experience a variety of vacations. Sometimes it’s my little immediate family. Sometimes it includes parents and siblings or in laws, and sometimes it’s just my husband and myself.

All of these types of vacations are important, but because of things like mom guilt and limited time off work, I can see how the girls’ getaway can fall low on the vacation totem pole.

Vacations with my kids are memory makers and I absolutely treasure them, but kids are still kids and they need you on vacation just like they do anywhere else.

Vacations with my husband are also too few and far between (we’re still planning that honeymoon 4 years later!) and while I am a huge advocate of kid-free trips, we have differing ideas of complete relaxation i.e. a spa day verses golfing.

Large family trips are so worth scheduling but with multiple families and a greater number of people under one roof they can be higher energy and usually pretty busy.

A girls’ getaway is different.

On a girls’ trip you may sit in your robe for 2 hours after waking up reading a book with a mud mask on your face. 5 other girls may be doing the same thing. OR 1 could be at the gym, some could be at the store, some may have gone for a walk down the beach and some may still be sleeping in.

Everyone is an adult and it doesn’t matter.

On a girls’ trip you discover a new face cream or hair gel because you’re all sharing—you’re offering up anything from a lipstick to a sundress to books to sandals you packed to all the girls.

If you get rained in you aren’t trying to entertain bored kids. Instead you’d just pour a mimosa and open up a magazine.

The TV never comes on because you can all gab until 2am no questions asked.

The relaxation and bonding that takes place on a girls’ trips makes it a must! It’s a vacation unlike any other.

I’m so thankful for these ladies for celebrating my 30th and extra thankful to my husband for holding down the fort at home with ease (as usual!) so I could go!

I slept in til after 9 most days and came home so ready to do a spring clean-out of the yard and tackle a few home projects—that’s rested!