Big Kid Rides the Bus

Big Kid will be riding the bus home from school today.

I just had it with the car rider line, I couldn't do that any more. The bus drops him off near our home at about the same time I get him home after waiting in the parking lot for an hour. He'll be on the bus for 20 minutes, I have told his teacher not to lose him and to please tell the bus driver not to lose him.

I have drilled him on his bus number and the stop. I even turned around this morning halfway to school to physically show it to him, although he knows where the corner near our house is. I woke up at 3:30 a.m. with my brain screaming, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?!? This is a child who can't put his own underwear on the right way." God love him, I think he's a genius, but when it comes to street smarts he has N-O-N-E.

The teacher puts him on the bus, the bus driver gets him off of the bus, and I will meet him at the stop, but it still seems like there's a lot of potential for something to go wrong.