HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Driving Miss Diva - On Hold

Because of the "freak out" nature of my lovely daughter we have decided to push her driving training to the spring to give her more time to mature and calm the heck down. She was pretty worked up when her brother had his accident and hasn't tried to drive since. She came to me with this plan and I was all for it! I have no desire to be in car with her driving in the snow, no way!

Hopefully a few months will mature her and I'll sign her up for driving school. This will be better for both of us!

I Can't Believe It been A Month Since My Last Post!

I haven't had much time to blog recently. This time of year is super busy for me and I (in an insane moment) decided to do 2 craft shows back to back next month. I've also been working on my website and another project. Busy, busy, bee!


Those of you who twitter with me know that my son was in a car accident at the beginning of the month. Well the darn car has finally been repaired and I get to pick it up today. I'll be so happy to have my old familiar car back. And now that gas prices have dropped so much I'll get to drive it too!

I have a lot of great ideas for this blog and can't wait for the time to get them going. So I hope you will all keep checking back!

What I was doing 19 years ago today....

Giving birth to a big headed boy! Only 6 lbs 5oz and he still broke my tailbone! I couldn't sit upright for 6 weeks! Now my first born is all grown up: 6 foot, 190 lbs of bearded hairy man. My sweet boy was in a hurry to enter the world. He was born 3 weeks early, I still had a week left to work before my maternity leave. He also decided to be born in 5 hours from start to finish in the most painful, natural back labor ever! Of couse snapping my tailbone on the way out shows his impatience to get started in the world.

He has continued to be impulsive and impatient even now. Funny how those traits are with us from the beginning.

It's a sad and happy day for me today. Happy I was able to keep him safe so he could reach this age and sad because my little boy is really now gone.

1st day home. OMG I look like I'm 16! I was really 23 folks, honest. Wow look how skinny I was after his birth! That so didn't happen with my second child!

Happy 19th Birthday RJ!!! MOM loves you!!!

Driving Miss Diva - The 1st Drive

A super tired mom and a crazed anxious daughter are not the best combinations for a first driving experience. Here's what happened. I took her to the grammar school parking lot. It was empty and large enough for turning and parking and backing up. The daughter couldn't tell the difference between the gas and brake even after repeatedly trying each one out. She didn't understand why I wanted her to drive between the rows and turn at the end. (Perhaps to practice driving straight, stopping and turning?!)

After white-knuckling the steering wheel and stopping again and again she complained that the school janitor was watching her and it was freaking her out. I told her I wasn't going to take her on a real road until she and I had some confidence in her driving. So just shut up and drive. Next a woman walking a dog stopped to watch us, which started another freak out. I changed places with her and went across town to the junior high, which was having open house night of course. I finally drove around to a quiet street and decided to let her try street driving.

She did o.k. at 5 miles an hour until a car 2 blocks up started to back out of it's driveway. This started another freak out. "OMG!" I said to her. "How will you drive on the street with cars all around you if you freak out over every little thing?" She ended up driving all of 3 blocks and I needed a Pepcid when it was over.

She decided that driving on the street was better cause it goes straight. I reminded her that not all streets are straight and you have to turn sometime.

I know all of this sounds terrible but she was really better than her brother when he drove for the first time. I'm not looking forward to the second time, perhaps her brother will take her.