Maternity leave...

I am officially on maternity leave until 6 weeks after this little one decides to make his arrival. I was having contractions within 20 minutes of getting on the bus every single day. I'm almost 34 weeks so doc decided to take me off.

It has eased up the contractions, so they were definitely caused by the bus.

This means I'll be reflecting on some old stories for a little while :)

And a funny... so the "orange" that is driving for me while I'm gone... I'm told he called in to the mechanics because he had a flat dual. This is a super full bus with tons of kids and when the bus is not moving, the natives get restless. So they're sitting there waiting for the mechanic to bring out a spare bus so they can get on their way. They're now about 30 minutes behind when the mechanic gets there with the spare and starts loading the kids off my bus and onto the spare. One of the high school kids (the one who told me this story) sees the mechanic walk up to the driver and sees him shake his head, then he over hears the mechanic say, in a sarcastic tone, "you don't have a flat" lol and the mechanic talks loudly and tells the kids to get back on the regular bus. I asked the student telling me the story "didn't the driver get out and check" and he said NO - can you believe that he didn't even get out of the bus to check if he had a flat. Turned out they were at a stop and approached by a clearly drunk man and told they had a flat... and the "orange" just took for granted that the drunk was right!!???!??!!

Way to make a bus load of kids really respect you... freaking oranges.