Sigh…as I was just saying yesterday, today, we missed the bus.

Just when I prided myself in packing Owie’s lunch and have everything ready to go by the door and Owie finished his breakfast in a timely manner, we rushed upstairs to brush his teeth (he has only been rinsing these past 2 days since we were running late). We were coming down the stairs when I heard the dreaded bus back up sound and sure enough, when I looked outside the window, parents were waving goodbye and bid was shifting to forward drive and driving away.

Fortunately, we live within 5 mins of the school (driving) so I hurriedly packed my breakfast and dropped Owie off. Teacher laughed when I told her we missed the bus and comforted me that many parents are in the same boat as we all are trying to get the routine down.

Whoa, only Owie’s 2nd day of kindergarten and we almost missed the bus…again.

When Owie went to preschool, we were REALLY flexible. We’d go in anywhere between 9-10am…now, the bus rolls around daily at 8:30am and we’re always running out of the house after Owie shouts, “I see the bus! I see the bus!” from INSIDE the house (yeah, there’s obviously something not right with the picture ;P). Then both of us would dash out like mad dogs with whatever is closer to us - yesterday, I carried Owie’s backpack and today, he carried his own, unzipped with the cover flapping up and down as he ran. We’ll always be the last one, thankful for the long line at our bus stop to allow us extra time to reach the bus.

Today, I was concentrating so hard on getting Owie on the bus I almost forgot to give him his lunchbox (I had grabbed it on the way out and had totally forgotten about it until I wanted to wave goodbye and noticed my right hand was occupied ). Thankfully, he made it and hopefully is happily learning at school now.

Now that I think about it, it must be pretty hilarious to onlookers though it was incredibly nerve-wrecking for us. It is going to take a few weeks to get this routine down…in the meantime, I am just thankful to God for the location of our house (literally right across from the stop sign)..another testimony to the fact that He DOES know what’s the best for us.