The twins started learning to drive about 10 years ago in the fall. Since then, I have shared my car with one, two, or even three kids at a time. I have taught them all to drive, let them use the car once they got their licenses, asked them to ride in my car when they wanted to drive, driven them to work and school when I needed the car, etc.
10 years of restrictions on sharing my car.To be clear, this is not a complaint, it’s what we do as parents.)
The past few years have been filled with beauty…going to work, going to school, or using the car for fun and running errands.
I had to make sure she was able to get to work by 9:30am and pick it up around 6pm. You don’t really notice the restrictions it puts on you until they’re gone.
Beauty bought a car
Last week, Beauty bought herself a car. She had been saving money since February. She was ready.
This freed me from the responsibility of having my last child share the car after 10 years!
freedom to go
She had until the next day to settle her insurance. Once she confirmed that was done, she began to untangle me…
No more extra driver
I called our auto insurance company and had her name removed from the driver list on my car/policy. This will only save me about $89 but I will take it. We all know this is the biggest bill I have ever had so the $89 will help.
No more 9:20am alarm
I’ve had an alarm set for 9:20am on my phone for the past year. Wherever I was, whatever I was doing, I either needed to get home or get ready to take my house to work. This often happened when I was working my part-time job in catering in the morning (2-3 days a week). I needed to stop what I was doing, report to the team, sign out, run home, drop her off at work, and then get back to my job. It wasn’t a problem or a burden at all. It was what needed to be done.
Dinner for anyone
Now, I can go to dinner. 
No, but really, I had to be in town to pick her up from work by 6 p.m., which meant no dinners with friends in Atlanta, etc. Or I rarely did. I always had to think about it… would she get home in good shape, would it be too cold, too hot, or too rainy? But now, I was free. I could go, see the place, do whatever I wanted. Would anyone want to have dinner?
Another transfer
I just left on Saturday… I went to a macrame class in a nearby town, went to the mall and walked around (no, I didn’t hang out, I just walked), I just left… and it was so weird not having to worry about anyone but myself. It was kind of sad too. I’m sure the web world will see this as a complaint post, but really, it’s just another transition I’m adjusting to. You don’t think about these things as a mom until they happen. And then suddenly you have all this time, all this freedom. And you have absolutely no idea what to do with it.
The post was published 10 years ago and now I’m free for the first time on Blogging Away Debt.
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