When my kids were very young and in their early years of school, I drove them to and from school every day.\u00a0I enjoyed meeting my mom friends as we waited outside our kids\u2019 classrooms where we chatted as we built relationships, chased our toddlers, and rocked each other\u2019s babies.<\/p>\n
The day came when my husband and I decided that our kids would take the bus.\u00a0Logistically, it just made sense.\u00a0I kept in touch with my friends and we would \u201ccatch up\u201d on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
Upon having coffee one morning with a friend from school, she told me that a few afternoons that school week, my child ran from the classroom to the bus with no shoes on.<\/p>\n
Just socks.<\/p>\n
We had a chuckle and figured my child must really not want to miss the bus.\u00a0This happened more often, and my friend kept letting me know.<\/p>\n
One morning while getting ready for school I quizzed my child asking why they went to the bus with no shoes on.\u00a0My child was shocked!<\/p>\n
\u201cHOW DID YOU KNOW?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 (oh, if I could have taken a picture of that face)<\/p>\n I responded with, \u201cMoms have eyes everywhere.<\/strong> Even at school\u2026when I\u2019m not there.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n My child begged me day in and day out to tell them how I knew they weren\u2019t wearing shoes.<\/p>\n \u201cWas it the bus driver?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWas it Mr. van Eerden?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n I refused to snitch on my trusty mom friend.\u00a0I would just remind my child that I had eyes everywhere.<\/p>\n Fast forward from elementary school to graduation\u2026. My child would still ask every now and then how I knew that they would go to the bus with no shoes on and I never revealed the secret until just after graduation.<\/p>\n We were remembering how funny it was that I knew about this \u201cbig secret\u201d and my child finally guessed the right person with much, much coaxing and begging.\u00a0We laughed and laughed at the anonymity for so many years.<\/p>\n The secret was out.\u00a0(*please forgive me for snitching)<\/p>\n It really does take a village, folks.\u00a0The socks weren\u2019t really that big of a deal, but I KNEW in the heart of my hearts that even when I couldn\u2019t physically be there with my kids, I had an army of friends watching out for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When my kids were very young and in their early years of school, I drove them to and from school every day.\u00a0I enjoyed meeting my mom friends as we waited outside our kids\u2019 classrooms where we chatted as we built relationships, chased our toddlers, and rocked each other\u2019s babies. Shocked The day came when my […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":4914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,15],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-school","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Snitched<\/h2>\n