PART II

Welcome back to your official Charleston guide! Yes, that’s right, this guide right here is ALL you need if you’re planning a C-town trip— that is, if you only plan to just eat food until you think you’re going to die. Enjoy!

FRIDAY

The Daily – super cute little breakfast joint with pastries, sandwiches and specialty coffees.

Xiao Bao biscuit – the holy grail of restaurants, according to my husband. He is still raving about this place. He didn’t want to leave it. Honestly I’ve never seen him happier, including the day he married me.

Last Christmas, Barton gave me a trip to Asheville. It was really sweet and creative; he had made a power point presentation with five different “vacation packages,” an assortment of options for hotels, restaurants and activities to do. All I had to do was choose which package I wanted, and we would be off!

Cut to August of this year, and I still hadn’t cashed in my gift, because I refused to leave my tiny, helpless infant in the care of anyone else besides my controlling @$$, thanks to a hardcore bout of postpartum anxiety (more on that later). This was new for me because I didn’t experience this sort of anxiety after Scout’s birth; I had no problem leaving her and did so pretty early on in her life. I’m not sure I’ll ever tell her this, but the first time I ever spent the night away from her as an infant was to go to a Justin Bieber concert in St. Louis. I’m not sure what that says about my parenting, but I do know what it says about my exquisite musical taste, AMIRIGHT, you guys?