parentinglife

My stepdaughter has been a school bus rider since the school opening.That entails,walking her to the bus stop in the morning and picking her up at the bus stop in the afternoon. There was a time where i forgot to pick her up,thank God for mother in law who checked on me if i had left. I was in such a hurry that i literally flew down the stairs without any shoes of flip-flops on! I didn’t even say to my mother in law to please listen to the baby,i just flew like a bat out of hell.I ran on the sidewalk and didn’t even feel the small stones ,seeds and twigs digging in my feet. All i kept saying was

oh my god,oh my god,oh my god,oh my god.    Over and over again.

My step daughter was being walked home by our neighbour whose daughter is the same age as my stepdaughter. I Thanked her profusely and just hugged  my stepdaughter to my chest. I was so wracked with guilt. The day before that i already talked to my mother in law and husband about talking to the other parents about walking a child home if the parent is not there to pick them up. And bam!It happened to me,lol.

A few days after my incident the other girls mother was not there to pick up her daughter. The brother came barrelling on the sidewalk and saying he is walking her home.The bus driver was hesitant but she let her go .The next day was when the bus driver called us parents and talked to us.We then decided that we will walk whoever is not picked up by the parent. And the bus driver will just let that child go and not take her back to school.It was settled then. We will look after each other’s child.

Today,Tamara our neighbor was not picked up by either her dad or mom so i told the bus driver that i would walk her home. We went to her house and knocked but no one was home so i took her home with us which is convenient coz our backyards are actually back to back. I called my husband and ask him to call Tamara’s mother and tell her that we have her and not to worry and to just pick her up at the house. We were almost a few yards from the door when Tamara’s dad pulled over beside us.He was so apologetic and i told him not to worry,his wife did it for me before and we already had an arrangement about that.. So we both told the girls that if I’m not there to pick up my stepdaughter she is to go with Tamara and vise versa.

Heard parents car pooling there kids to school well, now we are officially bus pick up pooling parents.