Driving

Recently I have become a mother of a teenage driver. It has been quite a roller coaster, literally. In January Kolton got his permit and enrolled in Drivers ED. May he finished Drivers Ed and was released to his Idaho Mandated 4 months of supervised driving. When i received my license you just got to drive, trial and error none of this crap of driving with a parent. I think this is punishment for the parents. My very favorite day was almost rear ending 2 cars, moving over to oncoming traffic so the driver behind us could get around since we were making a left hand turn, and merging onto the hwy 20 without yield for the semi that was skidding so he would not hit us. All of these things happened in a short 5 mile drive to the river. WOW!

It is true that the things you learn in the Barnyard make you a better person, It was great to see the Driver Kolton became after moving to the farm. I don't want the details nor do I ever need to know how far he went alone, but wow it was much improved. I thought we were making progress until the day we let him take out the old beater truck we bought for him to drive. (83' ford ranger stick shift) I had this bright idea to let him drive Kelly and I in "the truck" to pick up the pizza. As we leave the parking lot he decided to dart across the road to the other parking lot. this road is 5 lane traffic and we have people coming at all sides! That was it, I am done.

I went to work and complained about my parenting woes, and my great friend turned on my light bulb. she said " I just got to the point that it was better that they just drove alone because they were going to be scary if I was with them or not" What a profound statement.

Last Monday Sept 24 Kolton PASSED the drivers tests and is now a proud owner of a license!

Not only did he pass he got 100% of the driving test and only missed 1 on the written. I commented the the instructor how he must have nerves of steel to do this job, his reply was "not very often do I give 100 on the driving portion he did great" I was along for the ride and I did my "hand thing" as Kolton would call it many times during the drive. SO I am obviously a little more nervous than I need to be. Well now another chapter closed in my book of life. On to the next.....