Watch Out! Look Who's Driving!

A. successfully completed her driver's test and now has her driver's license! 

Hurray!!

We did the economical parent-taught program rather than a driving school. Driver's Education isn't offered through the schools here. Bummer.  A. watched every video and read every page in the not-so-exciting course. We logged every hour driven, night and day, and recorded it on every sheet. She practiced her parallel parking until she could get into a space in 3 turns. We drove the freeways, stopping at Braum's for some soul sustaining ice cream. We scheduled the driver's test 3 months in advance, because that was the soonest spot available.  We got the required documents including the form, proving she was a student. And then we went to the appointment at the Driver's License place to be told that the school document had expired. We were suppose to get it the last week of school, but instead had gotten it the 2nd to last week. Nope. Sorry. No budging on this, the oh-so-friendly (not) DMV person gruffly informed us. Not one iota of compassion for the plight of a nervous soon-to-be driver. EERRRRRRR! 

A vacation later (it only took that long for me to settle down and feel calm about the driving people), we decided to try once again to book the driver's test and get this elusive driver's license. All the places were booked out for 3+ months. I looked at 7-10 places in our area, seriously. No exaggeration! We finally found a place 2 1/2 hours away that had a spot only 3 weeks out. It was ours. We were determined to be victorious!

Victory! 

This girl got her driver's license! The DMV people were even NICE!

So who is driving to early morning seminary this year???? Not me!  A. is!

Way to go A! You did grrrrreeeaaattt!