One of my least favorite parental duties is waiting at the bus stop. I hate standing in the cold. I hate standing in the rain. I hate listing to the complaints of all the kids about how long it is taking the bus. The time it takes for complaints to begin seems to be proportional to the temperature. At 60 degrees, about 2 minutes, at 40 degrees about 20 seconds, at 15 degrees about 1 millisecond. I also become the de facto bus stop monitor. This is interesting when I don't know everyone's names. Of course, I have no authority. The best I can do is to tattle to the bus driver. I really don't like scolding other people's kids! I also hate waiting for the bus in the afternoon. School lets out at 2:30, but the buses usually come through our neighborhood, so from about 2:20 until it's time to leave, I am in semi-panic mode every time I hear a bus thinking I have missed it! The bus has arrived anywhere from 2:37 to 2:50. I hate waiting in the house thinking I'm late, but I hate standing around the stop sign like some idiot who got lost on the way home. Plus I get bored. Sometimes I look at the mail or take a book, but I don't always remember this. Plus, it's not any more fun to wait in the cold when the sun is out than in the dark in the morning. What really bugs me is when I'm on break, I still have to go to the bus stop. No sleeping in for me. I still have to get dressed, go out in the cold and listen to the whining at 7am. Usually when Peter is on break, so is Sammy, so its not an issue for him.

Sammy is dancing around to Fur Elise. She just asked me if I thought someone could play that on the piano. This amuses me because she is playing it on our keyboard, so it would seem obvious that if it is prerecorded there, it should be played there. In any case, she is practicing to be a princess in the new movie about the princess int he wild. Know that one? Me neither!