Becoming a Bus Driver

I did it.
I passed the written driving tests for becoming a School Bus Driver. I had to take 4 tests - Signs test, Passenger test, School Bus test and CDL or Commercial Drivers test. Friday I passed all the tests but the CDL. That is the test with all the information for driving the big rigs. So all weekend my DH teased me while I was studying all the big truck rules of the road. Come Monday though I knew it all and passed. So if you have any Big Rig questions this Stay at Home Mom soon to be Bus Driver can answer them for you.

Did you know that you must have one tie down for every 10 feet of cargo you are hauling on an open bed trailer, with a minimum of 2. Let me think - there may be a time I can use that as a bus driver :)

The funniest question - Why do you go faster on down grades? answer - gravity. I'm cool,I know it. :)

So many papers!

At the beginning of the school year I noticed that we were getting a lot of papers home. As I volunteered in the class room I saw that they would read a book (2 or 3 pages copied)and then just take it home. So I started to put the papers in a empty cabinet in our living room. This past weekend My pearl girl and I emptied it out and took out all of the copied papers and counted them. We counted 1558 papers. This is not even the whole school year. After looking on-line I would guess it cost the school about .038 cents per copy. That adds up to $59.20. A lot of these papers are two sided. That would be an additional cost. I think I can understand why my daughters hand writting is so bad. When I went to school we had to copy things from books. You know what books are those hard covered copies that can be used over and over again. There are 22 students in her class. Multiply that by 59.20 and you have $1302.49. Wow.
This is the box of the rest of the work. I think I know how the school system can save some money. I think Quality would be better then Quantity. Sorry about the rant, I just needed to tell someone.

The "I got your back" Parenting

"Derick wants me to go to a "Slipknot" concert in Chicago" my man child recently said to me on the drive home from school.
"Really" I said, trying with all my might not to scream NNOOOO!
"He wants to go in the mosh pit"
I say, "Where are they playing, that makes a difference?"
"Mom, people die in mosh pits"
I say "I know"
"I'm still competing for Track and Football work outs are starting soon." He says
"I also am really looking forward to the Track Camp coming up"
I say "Yup"
"Just tell me I can't go, because I don't want to go anyway"
I smile with relief and quickly say, "You can't go"
It's always better when it's their idea. And when they can rely on you to say no:)

Kids are fun!

I walked up to the frig the other night and saw this blue post it. I said to whoever was listening, "What is this?"

My pearl girl said, "It's upside down"
She flipped it over.
Then I said, "So what is that?"
She looked at me and simply said,
"See that picture of a tongue. (The brown semi-circle with the line coming down the center.)
I was mad at you the other night for telling me to do something and wrote this. It means - and she stood there and stuck out her tongue and did a raspberry with a "b" sound on the end."
I stood silent for one second in awe of her creativity and then we all bust into laughter at the same time.
Wow! Kids are so fun.