Driving Miss Dena

Well, the time has finally come! Rea started Drivers Education today and will get her learner's permit next week. She is well past getting her driver's license, but she has decided that she is ready and willing to hit the road on her own!

She has a 5 week course (3 days/week) and has to log 50 hours of driving time with her parents and wait 9 months before she can get her license. Since she will be getting her permit next week, I assume that she will be driving us (by us, I mean ME) everywhere we need to go. It is a scary thought, but she has proved to be a good driver in the past when we took her and let her drive around the neighborhood before we moved.

However, in Texas, kids only have to wait 6 months after getting their permit before they can get their license. Here in Illinois, it's 9 months, which means she won't get her license until February 2009. By that time she will be well over 17!! Hopefully her more mature nature will help her be a better driver.

One thing I was suprised to find out today when I called our insurance company, is that our rates will not go up when she gets her learner's permit, only when she gets her license. Now, that was good news!

For now, and I guess until February, she will surely be doing nothing but Driving Miss Dena!! Hee Hee!! I am going to kick back and be chauffered for a while while I bite my nails and try to push my feet through the floor board.

Boy, it's bad enough when Dan drives since I like to be in control when I'm in a car. I can only imagine how it will be with a teenager at the wheel!!!