Friday, February 26, 2010

Riding the bus...........

Remember riding the bus as a kid? An education could be had on
the bus in my hometown....especially because my parents tried
hard to shelter us. All of the bad words were learned on the bus
(well and while helping your dad do home improvement projects)
and even some of the birds and the bees stuff too.

Well trying to get my kids to school on the bus this year has felt
like a three ring circus. My husband goes away every year for a
big work conference so that doesn't help in the confusion.  The
first day our son was all dressed, done eating his breakfast and
waiting excitedly to go off to school. Well if you know anything
about Autistic kids then you know they don't wait very well. 
He grew impatient and I grew nervous they would once again
forget to pick him up for school. They have forgotten him on
the first day for summer school 2 years in a row and for regular
school too already so who wouldn't be nervous right?

Happily we headed out to the bus when we saw it pull up only
to have the bus turn around and drive away w/out him!!! Ummm
excuse me I called jogging towards the street. They just kept
driving and didn't come back. When I called Transportation over
and over to no avail only getting a busy signal; I called school and
had them transfer me. They said another bus would come but
we waited and waited (again not good at the waiting) nobody
came. I drove him to school where he proceeded to try and yank
all of my hair out and kick my teeth down my throat all at the
same time. OKAY NOT A GOOD TRANSITION!!!!

Then it was time for the Sassy Kindergarten Princess to ride her
bus.  It's a shame the Transportation people didn't send us any
bus info until the week after school started. I had to drive her on
the first day and she was disappointed.  She has wanted to ride
the school bus since the first day it came to pick up her little
brother!!!  When I got to school they knew her bus assignment
and I said okay good please make sure she rides the bus home.
Then I worried what if she doesn't end up on the bus, what
if I'm not on time at the bus stop.  The mother worry kicked
in but it all worked out and she arrived safely....over an hour
after getting out of school but none the less arrived safely.

That first week of bus riding was memorable to say the least.
My daughter had another Kindergartener tell her to "shut up
B*tch" !!!!  Excuse me???  I tend to not get excited about little
stuff so when she came off the bus and tattled that a boy said a
bad word on the bus I said "ahhh just don't listen because you
know it's not okay to talk like that".  Well she must have been
especially upset about it (understandably so) because she
came back to me and brought it up again.  This was when she
told me the boy said it to her!!!  Well mommy mode kicked in
and I was kicking some butt and taking some names before
I even knew what hit me!!  The Director of Transportation,
Principal and bus driver had all been advised of the situation.

All I can say is we're glad to have that bus route safely behind
us now that we've  moved!!


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