Well, Carly officially passed her driver's exam last Friday. She had to wait until Tuesday to actually be able to drive solo - here in Texas, the place where you take driver's ed now offers driving assessments like the DMV/DPS offers. You take the test with the driving school, and if you pass you bring certified papers to the DPS and they take your photo and issue you a license. Since she took her exam on Friday evening after 4 p.m., she had to wait until the DPS opened again on Monday. Further, here in Texas they have a rule that you must submit a VOE - a Verification of Enrollment and Attendance. Apparently they won't issue you a driver's license when you're 16 if you're not enrolled in school. (Interesting, eh?) So, Carly had to "order" a VOE form from her school (she had to do this when she got her permit, too) - which takes 24 hours for the school to generate. So, poor Carly had to wait four extra days to actually drive after she passed her driver's exam. Since Chad drives a company vehicle, she was given Chad's 2007 VUE (much to the chagrin of Courtney, who feels entitled to that car since she is the oldest child). She has now cleaned out the car, brought it to a carwash and vacuumed the entire inside, and gotten car air fresheners. I can remember the freedom of being 16 and having my own car. She is on cloud 9!
Courtney finished her first semester of college - her last final of the first semester was this week. She has six weeks off for the holidays and she is super pumped to have a break! A change for Courtney is that she originally leased student housing (a very small apartment shared with one roommate on campus) - however, she got a job in Katy coaching at her cheer gym, which is an hour away from school. Coupled with the fact that she didn't get along with her roommate, she never spent any time at her campus apartment. I think in the month of November she spent a total of two nights there - if that. We decided to move her back home with us and try to sublease her apartment. She misses Minnesota very much - especially all of her friends. However, she has made some new friends here in Texas. They even came to watch her cheer at her last cheer competition! Nice!
Corbin is still adjusting to homeschool/online private school. He needs the structure of a school day but cannot handle the social stress of his disability with autism and ADHD - I am hoping that things get better for him as I am at a loss on how to handle getting him to WANT to do his schoolwork.
Chad has been busy with his work making many sales calls and he's even driven from Houston to Dallas back and forth in one day - that's a 4 hour drive each way - 8 hours total in the car for one sales call. Those days can be exhausting for him!!! He is sooooo good at what he does and I am really, really proud of him. He's very humble about his job, saying he has a lot to learn but is enjoying the new experience. It's wonderful for me as a wife to see him flourish - he really has taken to this like a duck takes to water!
As for me - well, I'm hanging in there! Had some rough things happen to me recently but overall I am looking forward to starting fresh for the new year. :)
Merry Christmas!
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