Kindergarten Adventures

Today was Eva's first day of kindergarten and it was almost her first absence! Eva and Stella and I left the house this morning at 6:40 a.m. to get to Stella's "school" which is approximately 10 miles from our house and generally takes us about 15 minutes. One hour later we pulled into her school! The flooding is so bad in Hillsborough and the surrounding areas that many roads were closed and traffic was diverted such that I would like to say (in my best hick sounding voice), "You can't get there from here!" I thought I would lose my mind and that Stella would hop out of her skin! Poor Eva who was so excited about kindergarten had to sit in the car all that time, knowing that it would be at least another 1/2 hour before we got to her new school (which is directly behind the high school in which I work). Eva was SOOOO good. No, "are we there yets" or "it's really taking a long time" which is what she generally says when she is in the car for a lengthy amount of time. Maybe she is maturing!!