Bus Update and a Game of Tag

The only tears at the bus stop this morning were mine. Aidan hugged me goodbye, slapped Chris a high five, said goodbye to both his brothers and hopped on the school bus without a care in the world.

This made me cry. It’s a lot harder to send your child off to school when they are happy and not kicking and screaming. I only wish I thought to take a picture of Aidan as a happy bus goer.

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In unrelated news, I have been tagged by my dear cousin Kristen to write eight random things about me. (My first tagging, very exciting.) I think there are some rules about what to write and how to pass it on, but I’m bad at rules.

So here’s my version of some randomness about me:

1. I once rode the bobsled track at Olympic Park in Park City Utah. It was very fast and it scared the hell out of me.

2. If I was alone in the car during my long drive home from college, I would put on the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack and pretend to be Belle. Really. I’d sing at full volume each and every note right along with Belle. With inflection.

3. I have been a passenger in a police car three times in my life. Two of the three times involved some (ahem) underage drinking. The third was my police ride along for my training as an assistant district attorney. During my ride along, we got in the midst of a threatened shoot out with a ‘perp” after a burglary. This made me so excited I told one of the detectives that, “I almost peed my pants.” That engendered a lot of respect for me among my friends, the cops.

4. I am a horrible liar. The only way for me to make a fib look passably believable is to convince myself that it is actually true.

5. I didn’t drive on the highway until I was nineteen. I failed my drivers test the first time I took it. (I blame it on my husband, Chris, who taught me how to drive when I was 16.) I also like to drive fast. Really, really fast.

6. I love to bake. When I first learned how to make apple pie, I was so excited that I made two or three a week until my husband had to gently put an end to my madness.

7. I once wore one brown shoe and one black shoe to work. It was two hours before I noticed.

8. I can’t sleep at night unless my husband is next to me. And I still cry when he has to go away on a business trip.