The children had some good news this week! A new kindergarten child has joined the school and he or she lives on our road! Because of this, the bus has to take an alternate route and come past our house each afternoon - and the children will now be dropped off at the end of our driveway every afternoon! So I will no longer be known as the terrible mother who makes her children walk from the end of the road! I will now only make my children walk from the end of the driveway! 117 metres only! Oh my how ever will they cope?????????
Still, this afternoon it was nice to go and meet the children from the bus at the end of the driveway - I will miss the walk to the end of the road in Summer - which we will still do to the mail box of course, but in winter it IS more effort because the road is icy and there are no sidewalks out here and the compressed snow on the road never seems to clear - even now because of all of the trees and the direction of the sun, the compressed snow has not melted at ALL, so our road is very icy still, but in Summer I loved to walk to meet the bus. Yet because the bus will be at the end of the driveway I am sure we will go to meet them far more often although I would still worry about Sam and Abigail going alone - I know it sounds crazy not to let them go alone to the end of the driveway but the end of our driveway is soooo far from the house and I can't watch them that far away and if a car stopped and went to grab them they are too far to get to quickly. Big trucks, tractors, fast cars - you get idiots driving up these little township roads soooo fast sometimes.
But yes, it was nice today to be outside for a while and to meet the children from the bus and it IS nice that they don't have to walk so far in the cold and even in the rain on days when I have pre-K. I'm happy for them but I don't appreciate other Mothers telling me how to parent my children - I think some parents are ridiculous these days - it's because other parents don't let their kids get exercise that there are so many obese kids! They taxi their kids everywhere! OMG!!
