On the Road Again....One Last Time

A big yellow school bus pulls out of the bus barn with me behind its wheel for the last time tomorrow morning. For those of you who do not know, I drove school buses off and on for the last sixteen years. I actually found myself a bit sad as I drove the afternoon route for the last time today. Even though they drive me nuts, I think of the students on that bus as my kids. So closes another chapter of my life, and so I roll one step closer to the new destination God lays before me.

At least I ended with a bang. We have not even driven half way through the route when a student comes forward and says "Bus Driver, Isaac has finger nail polish in his eye." FINGER NAIL WHAT IN HIS EYE?!? I asked who did it. The hand of this angelic little first grader rises in the air. As she passes me to get off the bus she says "I only meant to put it on his cheek." You know...what do you say to logic like that?? We were only a mile away from the boy's house, but when we got there his mom was not home. I turned around and took him back to the school where the principal administered first aid until the boy's parents arrived. When I got home a phone message awaited me telling me that one of my church members went to the emergency room. When I walked through the doors of the ER there sat the boy from my bus with his mother. He was alright. They brought him to have him checked just for precaution. It did give me a chance to talk to his mother. She was very appreciative.

Everything seems to be proceeding well on the sale of the house. It looks like we will be able to close by the 21st. That means we have a lot of details to wrap up between now and then. We appreciate the prayers.