Oh how Hoyt has been waiting for this day! He was so excited for his first day of school, and I have to say maybe slightly more excited to start riding the bus. With afternoon kindergarten a bus comes around and just picks up the kindergarteners, AND the bus picks up right at our house. How wonderful is that?
I told Hoyt that he probably wouldn't want to ride the bus the first day of school, because most parents take their kids (especially kindergarteners) to school on the first day. However, he wouldn't hear of it. He begged and begged to ride the bus, so I relented. I told him that I would meet the bus at the school and walk him to his class.
When I met him at the school, I was horrified to see that he was the only child on the bus. No other kindergarteners had been on the bus for the first day. I felt so badly, but Hoyt didn't seem to mind. He said, "Mom, the bus ride was fun, but no one else rode the bus!" To top it all off the bus was a little late, so I had to walk him into class late and explain to his teacher why he was tardy. I cried the whole way back home. Now, it was probably the post-partum making me cry, but I felt like the worst parent in the world for letting him ride the bus and that he had to ride it all alone. It didn't seem to phase him though, so I guess I shouldn't worry!
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