New Driver

Our lovely daughter has never really felt the need to drive. She has friends who got their license as soon as they turned 16, but also has quite a few who waited. She was a little scared but mostly just did not want to put in the time to learn. And...after all, I drove her everywhere.

We elected to do parent-taught driver's ed. rather than paying $320 for a driving instructor. We had the material for a year before she would ever entertain the notion of learning anything about driving. Finally, in April of this year (1 month before her 17th birthday) we went to the DMV, she took her written test, passed and became the proud owner of a Learning Permit. Still, no driving. In our state, we have a graduated drivers' licensing program. You must have your learning permit for 6 months before it converts to a regular license (to give ample time for practice). For 5 of those months, no driving. Now, all of a sudden, she wants to drive all the time. Unfortunately, because of my husband's schedule, I'm doing most of the teaching. Can you say Valium?
Actually, she does pretty well but she hasn't driven over 40 mph yet. It will be nice when she can drive herself but I'm not anxious for that now.

Oh my, that was a lot of rambling. I'm not sure I'm going to be a very good blogger. I can report the facts but am not good at conveying the feelings and inner thoughts. I'll give that a try tomorrow!

My First Blog

Well, I am jumping in and attempting a blog. I thought it might be a good way to record our daughter's final year of high school. Bear with me while I'm learning!

My beautiful daughter just started her senior year of high school. I thought I was fine with it but have discovered I get upset over little things. Letting go anxiety, perhaps? The school year got off to a rocky start. It seems there was some incompetence in the school office and most of the seniors had their class schedule completely messed up. My daughter (we'll call her EJ) was supposed to be in: English IV, Prep for College Alg, Government, Varsity Choir, Ind. Study for Ag., ASL II, and student aide for a teacher. What they put her in was: Eng. IV, Prep for College Alg, Varsity Choir, ASL II, Government, Economics, Business Law, Wildlife Mgt., Range Mgt. Please!! However, she was on top of it and it only took 2 days to get it straightened out.

She likes most of her teachers and has taken on some new responsibilities, one being Varsity Choir. She's never been in school choir but has been in church choir since the age of 3 so her teacher put her in the varsity choir. She's excited but nervous. Also, she's student aiding for a teacher this year and that requires a little more responsibility on her part.

We're getting into the swing of things and I'm hoping for a great year. So much for the boring details. I'll try for a more interesting update later.