I'm getting ready to leave for my trip out East to see family for the holidays.

I had shared with my sister in law how very very anxious I was about renting a car and driving to places I had never driven to before (this always makes my anxiety skyrocket) and the angel told me to cancel my rent a car and had arranged for a very reasonably priced driver she knew to take me from BWI to my mother's and back. And my brother is taking care of ferrying me between his place and my mother's. What a wonderful, generous woman!! She insists that I have a stress-free holiday.

I'm making the preparations for leaving, and although I have that huge bit anxiety off of my shoulders I'm still very anxious about preparations and traveling itself, as I always am. But thanks to my sister in law and my cat sitter (who finally came through at the last minute), I think this might actually go well. Keep your fingers crossed and knock on wood for me, pleeeease!! I always worry about everything that could go wrong! But I hope I do have a relatively stress-free holiday, for once, and for this I am so grateful to so many people.

Let's hope I have far less anxiety than usual and that I stay stable! High stress can send me into unrelenting anxiety and/or episodes.