This Crazy Life

She got her permit!  We’ve been talking about it on and off since she turned 15.  She would think she could, then she couldn’t, then she thought she could, then she couldn’t.  She decided she could do it.  And she did!  Passed on her first try.  Now she doesn’t plan on practicing driving until we find her a car so that it’s only her car and no one else is touching it.  Which at this point I can live with.  Maybe it will give her some more independence and get her out of the house.  Maybe.  She wants a job.  Maybe she’ll meet some people and find some friends through a job.  Maybe she can keep taking her life back.  Step by step by little bitty baby step.  And in other news.  This week has been good.  No spiraling out of control thoughts for me.  I feel in charge and in control of my life.  And I went water skiing yesterday.  For the first time in probably close to 30 years.  And I got up the first time and I am so sore today.  But it was fun, and I did it.  Just for me.