wow!

This has been quite a week!  Don't you just wish that folks in this world or in your little world would just dial it down a bit???  Like in the morning, how about leaving early so you don't have to go around my bus when I am loading your neighbor's kid?  Or how about if you get off your phone while you are driving your little ones to the McDonalds when you could just as easily walk to the beautiful park in your well maintained new subdivision and have a PBJ picnic?  You'd do your kids, yourself and the soaring gas prices a favor!  Not to mention you'd be out of my way so I could do my job.  Or how about if you'd parent you kids and tell them NO once in a while and mean it!???  That would save me from having to listen to your whiny kid as I try and drive through rush hour traffic so I can get your little darling home in one peice!

That doesn't include all the co-workers of mine who think it's their job to correct other bus drivers on their driving abilities.   LIGHTEN UP FOLKS!  One of my co-workers who brings my early childhood kids in to school even wrote up a 3 year old because he wouldn't say he was sorry for hitting another kid!  The kid is 3 and can barely answer a question you ask him.  This 3 year old is in a special needs class for a reason!! He's special and has no clue as to what I am sorry is or why he hit his friend.  And even if he did, don't write him up!  Then I got to be the one who listened to his mother at the bus stop rant about how she thinks this little write up will be on his record for life.  It won't be, but she is the Earth momma type who take these things personally.  I know I am not that awesome, but I do know how kids are as well as parents, AND know how to talk to them.  <whew!!>  I am feeling much better now!

With only 5 more weeks of school I have finally had to assign seats on my grade school bus.  My 5th graders all think they are all ready for Junior high and can't be bothered to deal with the little kids without calling them stupid or telling them to shut up.  SOOOOOO rather than punish all of them, I re-organized my bus.  Put the little seat jumpers in front, the "I'm all that" girls in the middle and the kids that actually behave in the back.  Problem solved! See I am teachable and next year I am doing the same thing right from the start!

It's all about the presentation when you are dealing others...and how you say it...I should have been a psych major! ;)

For me it's all good on bus 30.  Especially now that I can drive in peace!

Two more of my little grandsons:

Liz and Dakota, in his Purdue football shirt (from grandma of course!), this from this past Feburary a couple of days right before he got hospitalized for pnemonia.  He just doesn't look right does he?

Jacob and his Mohawk. He's wearing an University of Illinois shirt from Uncle Jim.  Uncle Matt cut their hair.  My stepsons have always cut their own hair or each others. 

There are days I look back and miss my kids being teenagers.  I miss all the sports, the togetherness and the chaos in the house.  BUT I also am and grateful of the quiet, the freedom and the joy of just being with my husband, he can be a pain, but he is my best friend and that's so cool.

Besides now I have the grandkids to cheer on!

Have a great weekend!!