We got hit with a BIG snowstorm yesterday. They dismissed school early so I had to go drive my school bus in a driving snowstorm with all these little kindergartners on my bus who are totally unaware of the dangerous, hazardous road conditions and just want to act "normal" by "telling on" each other....." Mrs. Coddington, Lauren stuck her tongue out at me"......"May I have a tissue?" "May I have a pencil?" "Mrs. Coddington, do you have an orange crayon?" "Mrs. Coddington, I need a band-aide" on and on....while I manage the other 30 kids on the bus and try to listen to my radio telling which roads were close etc.....it was wild. I did get everyone home okay and even had to "rescue" another bus driver and her last 2 students.....her bus couldn't make it up a hill on the snow and ice and she almost went in the ditch trying to back the bus so she could get a better start up the slick hill. Anyway, we all made it .....the bus mechanic had to go drive the "stuck" bus back to the bus garage....

I was telling another bus driver how I was going to try NOT to talk on my cell phone while driving because I was reading how many people have been killed by distracted drivers. She said that after being a school bus driver for 25 years and handling all you have to handle on a school bus.....she thought she could handle only doing ONE other thing while driving.....I laughed and agreed with her....but I am still trying not to talk and drive because I almost wiped out a motorcycle driver this summer when I was changing lanes because I was holding my phone talking and didn't turn to look (like I always do) before I changed lanes....it was all clear in my mirror.....thankfully, I heard his horn and severed back into my lane.....it was scary and I don't want to do that again.