Deja Vu

Wikipedia defines deja vu as: the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously (an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has repeated itself).

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So, yesterday, I was talking to my mom on the phone and I saw the bus drive by. I sent S down to the bus stop to walk home with A. (A goes to a different school than my other 3 go to and she gets home about 30 minutes after the other kids do.) A few minutes S comes in the door and she is mad. The day before when she had gone down to get A, they had somehow missed each other and when S got to the house, she was so worried that something had happened to A and when she saw A sitting at the table S was really mad. So when she came through the door yesterday, she thought that the same thing had happened, that they had missed each other, and she was going to chew A out. Except A wasn't home yet. S said that she had walked around the block 3 times and she had not seen her. I called down to the neighbors that A is suppose to ride the bus with, and their mother told me that her children were not home yet, that the bus had not come yet. Now I was slightly confused because I had watched the bus drive by and I had waved to some of the other neighborhood kids that were walking home. The other mother said that she would call the school and see if they were still there. She called me right back and said that the teacher had sent them all to the bus and that they had no idea where they were. She called the bus garage, and the driver said that my A and the neighbors two children, Logan and Trey, had not gotten on the bus.

Okay, so let's recap. School has been out for 45 minutes now. The teacher last saw these two kindergartners and one 2nd grader when she sent them to the bus stop 45 minutes ago! They did NOT get on the bus and when the school was contacted, they said they had no extra kids running around. SO, WHERE ARE THESE 3 CHILDREN??????

I went across the street to the little girls house from the last time this happened. She had nothing to do with this time. I called the school myself. The principal actually answered the phone and I told her my situation and she laughed and said, "I have no idea what to tell you. We have no extra kids here." Ummm....what part of this is funny? I asked her if I could talk to A's teacher. She put me on hold for a couple of minutes and then she came back on, again laughing, and said that they had found them but that she would let A's teacher explain it to me.

A and Trey's teacher had sent them to Logan's class after school. Logan was really slow at getting her stuff all together so by the time the three of them got out the door, they had missed the bus. The doors to the school were all locked so it took them a while to figure out how to get back into the school. Once inside they went back to Logan's class. Her teacher was not there so they just waited, unsure of what to do next. When I contacted the school, they paged them to see if they were there, and sure enough, they all came to the office, very scared and very hungry! A's teacher took them back to her class and fed them a snack and kept them with her until I got there to bring them home. They were very relieved to see me and very ready to go home. Logan said that she thought they would never see their home again.

It all turned out good, AGAIN, but let's have this be the last time, please!

P.S. A just walked in the door from school today! Now that all my kiddos are home for the day, I can relax! We survived another adventurous day of school!