I came here to post my positives for today, but first off, I have to comment on Krissie's post. What a wonderful thing you are trying to do for your stepdaughter. I will absolutely pray that her mom will let her stay with you and that her mom gets the help she needs. You will make such a difference in this girls life and the fact that you are willing to sacrifice to do for her shows your amazing character. Please let all of us here know what happens.
Okay, now for my positive for today. Some of you read my post "frustrated" today, and those who did will understand just how big what I did today is! After reading a few replies to my post, I decided that I was not going to let what happened yesterday bother me. It was only a small incident that I was allowing myself to blow up way out of proportion and figured that I could also decide not to, which I did. I got up, showered and dressed and told my husband we were going out...I'm also agoraphobic, so he was as surprised as I was. We went first to Home Depot and Menards which are fairly close to our house, but we were gone for over 2 hours and I felt very comfortable most of the time. Then we came home to eat lunch and I was not done going out! I've wanted to go to Kohl's for a couple of months now, but it's 15 miles from home and I've not been going more than a few miles at a time. I thought it was time to try, so we left. about half way there I had to stop and get out of the car to calm down a bit, but I didn't give up and we continued on and I made it!!! We spent about an hour at Kohl's and then went to the Target next to it for another half an hour and even took the freeway home! I'm still amazed that I was able to accomplish this after the way I felt yesterday. Thank you all for your kind words in my other post, it really helped me today!