It's been a while

It was a busy May for me. Work work work and when I wasn't at work I was taking my youngest to her soccer practices and games. (It's not just soccer moms!)

In the middle of that, my wife and I were cleaning the house to try and sell it and build a new one.

Lots going on.

Then I got the call. 8:30pm my wife answered her cell phone and her face just fell. It seems my daughter who'd gotten her license in April, and she just rolled the truck she was driving. First things first, she's ok. I am not even sure she was all that shook up. I can tell you for sure I was shook up more than she was!

She was on a gravel road and took a corner too fast and started to fish tail and down into the ditch she went, rolling the truck upside down twice from the sounds of it. I am glad she's ok, but now I am out the vehicle that she was driving and of course she doesn't understand why I can't just go out and buy her another one! Clearly I have done something wrong in raising this child.

So for now, she is driving one of the other vehicles while I decided what to do about her driving on a more permanent basis. Is it too harsh to make her buy her own vehicle? She's only 16 and has no job so if I tell her she has to buy her own, she won't have one for years, but she also needs to understand that her recklessness has consequences and also that money doesn't grow on trees.

/sigh