So, I forgot to mention in the last blog the slow painful death of our planned meals list. We followed if faithfully for the first two weeks or so, then loosely followed it for the next two (we'd swap nights around, maybe substitute something from off the list on a night), and then we just kinda stopped following it alltogether.
Anblick's Driving Academy has started back up. In it, I've been teaching Candice to drive a stick shift. No one had been able to accomplish it in the past, so I took it up around September/October of last year. She got to be pretty good for empty parking lot driving, but her confidence wasn't there to do much more than drive around the building.
Last night, we went out to try again for the first time since October. She picked it up again pretty good, and I wouldn't let her stop until she had three smooth starts from a dead stop. She did it. But again, her biggest problem is her confidence. She's not bad at it, but her doubts make her make mistakes. When she relaxed, she's actually pretty good. (But heaven forbid a car gets behind her.) It will come though. She's a pretty smart cookie. She expects perfection out of most of what she does, and when she can't hit that off the bat, she gets discouraged and looses confidence. I have a feeling that if I can get her to apply herself long enough to actually see the results, it might help her in some of the other things she starts but doesn't finish because she looses interest when she starts making mistakes at them. Fingers are crossed.
That's all for this one. Thanks for reading.
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