Thursday was the first day of school for my kids. In preparation for this day I checked the school website to find out when their buses would run and where they'd be picked up this year. The site wasn't working right so I called the transportation office. The lady informed me that the High School bus would pick my daughter up at 6:38 in the morning. WOW! That's early right? She also told me what she had to get the site to work for my address. I checked it out on my own computer to confirm what she told me and make sure there weren't any changes. THEN the day before school I called the bus driver to make doubly sure. OVERKILL? Perhaps. It's the first time we needed the high school bus so I wanted to make sure. The bus driver sorta made me feel like a dork. He seemed surprised by my call, but he told me that he had no changes to his route.
Fast forward to the first day of school. My baby girl gets ready and heads out into the breaking dawn to catch her bus. She was early for extra precaution. A little after 7 I hear her pounding on the front door. "MOM, the bus had already left before I got there. Some lady told me the bus comes at 6:05!" High school starts at 7:15am. We grab my sons breakfast and throw everyone in the car. I race to her school and we are very close to the tardy bell. A fella there assures me that they are giving a grace period for all the new freshmen. WHEW! We say good bye and rush home. Hoping to make it before my Son's bus gets there.
We get home and see another little girl that rides his bus at the end of our road. We must have made it! I get my little guy some more juice cuz the muffin he had in the car has left him parched. We go to the bus stop only to hear the little girls mom holler to us..."The bus just went by before you pulled in!" My sons bus was also earlier than the transportation office said it would be! We jumped back into the car and race to the elementary school. He made it on time as well.
Put in some calls. The bus driver said, "Yeah, the website is wrong." WHY couldn't he tell me that when I called the day before? UGH.
Day two was much better.
8 comments:
Tell me, did you cry at anytime or were you too mad? I believe I would have cried.
Oh yes, Granny Annie. I cried as she walked to the bus stop the first time.
Getting kids to school is almost as traumatic as keeping them there once they're old enough to walk out.
I'm hoping for the best for both your kids, and for you.
I had to move my blog after I badly, sadly broke Lorna in wonderland.
I'm now at lornaslandofwonder.blogspot.com
They really need to get the bus situation fixed. I feel like you guys always have bus issues down there.
Now for the real issue. I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOUR DAUGHTER IS IN HIGH SCHOOL! I'm sure you're feeling the same way but WOW! I hope they both have a great school year. And that the bus issues all work out. Man, getting up that early is not fair!
Wow, they're not making it easy on you , are they?
I'm glad day 2 went better!
Cxx
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