When do I get over this driving thing?

Yesterday was a first. My ds got his dad's permission (first shock) to take the car and meet his buddies at the mall. Ds has been so patient. He's had the license a week today and so far the closest he's come to driving himself anywhere was having me in the back seat and his brother in the front instead of vice versa.

My heart was in my throat when he pulled away. In daylight. Low traffic. But still. I couldn't help but wonder if it was this hard on my mother. I can't imagine it was. I mean we lived in Glencoe USA where even if I rode down the wrong side of the road I was more likely to hit a cow than another car. Just kidding. But I didn't deal with the kind of traffic A has to. Didn't till I was married and in CT. So, I made myself "be reasonable" and found something to do to keep my mind occupied.

When I let him take the car to school today--he only has class for an hour and 15 minutes on Thursdays and it was nice to not have to go anywhere!--that same thread of fear had to be fought. It's worse than Spiderman thread. :)

I spent the day catching up--blogs, e-mail, etc. It was nice. Here's to hoping the evening is nice. My feet actually got cold when I shot out to the freezer in the garage today. It's been spitting rain off and on and it's supposed to get downright nippy over the weekend. I was surprised to notice how many leaves have already fallen. I think we will get an early fall this year. There have been years here when the leaves didn't really get going till November. We'll see.

So that's it for today, I'm afraid. I'm working on prompts and pages to get up tomorrow, so check out the home page! Sometime after 7 AM central probably. :)