Monday, Oct 25, 2010

Worked. No walking in a long time. I can just feel my veins clogging up! :)

This week starts a 3 week marathon of driver's ed for Travis. Tonight was the first night and they had a 2 hour parent meeting during the kid's class. It was rather informative. So, by this Friday, I will have another driver in the family (permit)! Kinda scary to think that in 1 week, he will be able to drive a car...on the road...with all the other idiot drivers that are out there. As a mother, it'S overwhelming to give them that much freedom and power. I remeber when I got my license...wow, the freedom that came with that! It's a whole new chapter in his life. His first big step away from us. It scares me to death. Not because I don't think he will do fine, but because of the other people on the road with him that will do something unexpected and test his abilities. I just pray he can react to anything that comes his way.

Anyway, so we had a parent meeting. He has to hold his permit for 6 months before he can get his license. Thursday afternoon he will take the permit test and then Friday we can go get the permit from the DPS. They have to have a picture permit now, not just a cardboard paper like we had when I got mine...so we have to actually go to the DPS and have his picture made. He has a good teacher. I like this school because the DPS requires you make a 70 on the signs test to get your permit, but the SCHOOL requires 100...because they don't want the person next to them on the road to only know 70% of the traffic signs. They have stricter requirements than the DPS. So, I feel comfortable with that.

Anyway, the school is Carroll Watkins Driving School in Keller on Main St. It's kinda a pain to drive out there, but it will only be for 3 weeks so I can live with that. Well, after 3 weeks, he will have to sign up for drive times, so it will be longer, but essentially 3 weeks of class. It's going to be a hectic 3 weeks!