This little girl will be on the road soon. She just finished with her Driver’s Ed class and is now eligible to apply for a learner’s permit. Time sure has flown. I still can’t believe it… My wallet can’t afford the car insurance!

I’ve only let her practice on our car a couple of times before she took the class, and those practice drives were in a parking lot. So she pretty much went into her driver’s ed class cold. No driving experience other than watching mom and dad drive.

On her first day driving, she almost hit my husband while they were both trying to get out of the school parking lot. LOL! She said it’s a good thing her instructor had brakes on his side of the car, ’cause he sure used it a lot while she was driving. She said up until the last day of class, she was still feeling nervous and kept making mistakes so I guess we better go get her permit so she can practice some more.

I was checking her blog and got worried by her post’s title, Good Girl Gone Bad. I thought, “What is this girl up to now?”. Then when I read her about ‘gone bad’ moment, I just had to laugh.

This is Jade, my now 14 going on 15 year old daughter. She is the one who got me started blogging just so she can have a blog. That was when she was 11. Since then she has moved on from our joint blog to her own. She has changed and discarded so many blogs, I couldn’t keep up with updating her links on my site. She is now trying her hand at designing her own layout that’s her design on her blog, but she is still working on making it work across browsers. Right now, it only looks right on IE. Firefox won’t show the main page, will show the individual pages, but some of the design elements are lost. So that’s the kind of thing that keeps her busy part of the time.

She and my other daughter Asi, are typical teenagers. They are all over the internet superhighway and it’s hard keeping up with them sometimes. I allow them a lot of freedom online but only after talking to them (until they were sick) about staying safe online. We keep the PC in a central area in the house but we also have a laptop that they can carry around even to their room if they want some privacy. I don’t have spyware on the computers, I pretty much trust them to do the right thing. Trusting them to do the right thing does not mean I don’t check on them once in a while though.

My friends laugh sometimes at how many social networking accounts I have and there is nothing on them but my user name. Yeah, that’s because I’ve been trailing the girls from Xanga to MySpace to Facebook and so on and on. They’ve been good about giving my their accounts so I can occasionally drop in and check on what they and their friends are up to. I try not to micro manage everything they do, but I want them to be aware that I’m aware and when I’m not, they need to keep me aware. I’m bummed that Jade won’t add me to her friends list though. She said that would be too weird. lol! Asi doesn’t care, so I’m on her list

I cross my fingers that I won’t ever find anything to worry about, and I place my trust in their common sense that they will always do the right thing. But, they are kids and kids will do what kids will do, so I still keep one eye open at all times.

We had a really quiet weekend. We didn’t really do anything, just went out to Target and get groceries for a couple of hours. The rest of the time, we stayed home, the girls and I. Their dad had some work to do so was gone pretty much all day Saturday. He came home early Sunday morning just exhausted. So he took his bath and went to bed, while the girls and I tried to stay quiet to give him peace.

It wasn’t that hard to do, we read most of the time. We watched a couple of old movies, the Conspiracy Theory and Enemy of the State. I finally finished the third book, Specials, in the Uglies series, and started on James Patterson’s Maximum Ride series.

We worked on our blogs, well at least Jade and I did. She discovered KevJumba and Happy Slip on YouTube and we also wasted a lot of time giggling over their videos.

We cooked a big roast pork yesterday so we can eat off of it for a couple of days (hopefully). So, that was our boring and relaxing weekend. How about you, how was your weekend?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, a whole week has gone by already? Where did the days go? I thought it was just the other day when I made a post.

At least today was a better Saturday than last time. We all got up in a good mood. I made french toast for breakfast. That was yummy! We got dressed, cleaned up around the house a bit and drove to Raleigh. My husband had to go help his cousin paint his house so the girls and I dropped him off and went shopping. We went to the Asian market first to get some staples for the pantry. By the time we got out of there, they were hungry so we stopped at Cookout and got them some burgers and shake. I didn’t get anything. I was still full from the french toasts for breakfast. We stopped at one more place, the Filipino market to get some more pantry items, then we started driving back to Durham.

We took the long loop home as we had to go on the western side of Durham to stop at the music store to get some reeds for Jade, which the store happened to be in front of A.C. Moore, the craft store, so we went there too to get some art supplies. By this time, it was getting dark and my wallet was a lot lighter, so we came on home. Now, we’re all just relaxing.

It will probably be late by the time my husband will be home, so we’ll just have a girls night in tonight. Maybe I can do some more blogging