What a Horrible day and it is not even 11 am yet!
So today is Navis first day of kindergarten, he was so exited! Last night he couldnt go to sleep and then he was up and dressed by 6:30! He checked on his lunch and everything was good to go. I got all the kids ready, made breakfast, everything was going great (we had been practicing this week to make sure that we would have no problems getting everyone dressed, beds made, teeth brushed, breakfast eaten, and everything in the backpack and lunch box ready to go. Well, Navi decided he wanted to take the bus instead of having me drive him on his first day, no problem! We have been practicing for this. I sit down and decide to double check the bus schedule ( I couldnt remember if the bus left at 8:20 or 8:30), and guess what I found! That I was wrong! The bus leaves at 8 am SHARP! I check my watch and see it is now 4 minutes to 8! I yell we have to go or you are going to miss the bus and rush everyone into the garage! JoJo somehow manages to shut his fingers in the door, Bailey cant buckle up and we are off! Only to see the bus drive by us when we are a block away from pickup! Okay no problem, I will go to pick up #2 (we have 2 bus pick ups), so I race home and Mapquest bus pick up #2, and we are off again! Only this time we cant find the bus pick up! Mapquest misdirected us, so I explain to Navi what has happened and see him start to pout and tears begin to form in the rear view mirror. Dont worry; I say I will take you to school! But we missed the bus, now I cant go to kindergarten he declares, no I correct him I will take you, and I promise we will not miss the bus tomorrow! So we start driving to school (17 miles away) and we finally arrive (minutes before class is due to start). The local high school band is playing, parents are taking pictures, and there are people and cars everywhere! So we walk into the school (Navi is holding bailey and my hands very tightly) and they direct us to the playground where the kids are to lining up for their classrooms. Again people everywhere and we cant find his teacher, we look around a bit and spot her, Navi is once again happy and calm lines up and tells me goodbye and that he will see me at one. Bailey, JoJo, and I wait for the bell to ring to leave, it is now 5 minutes after it was to ring (oh, did I mention Baileys ballet/tap class starts at 9:15?) Another 5 minutes pass, it is nine oclock I hear Navi say Mommy? I reply yes? He says why didnt you go? Bailey has ballet class, I said okay we will go, we were just waiting for you to go inside. And we begin walking away. Bailey then gets upset because we left before Navi went inside. So we RUSH back to the car, and drive towards ballet class I then look at the gas gauge which the light came on while on the way to Navis school and HOPE that we make it to ballet class on time. Somehow we managed to get their only 5 minutes late ( mind you five minutes is a LOOONG time when the class is only 30 minutes long) and we didnt run out of gas. So we now have gas, and a few hours till we have to run pick up Navi FROM school the bus does not pick up on Wednesday afternoons, since it is half days, hopefully that (and the rest of the day) will go a lot smoother than this morning did!
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