Back!!

She's back!! She's back and had a wonderful week! No need to tell we're all happy she's back!
But we oh so messed up at pick-up! I still feel horrible about it. I still feel like I could cry...

They were supposed to be back at 4:00pm today. Because I didn't want M. having to wait at school for too long in case little sister's bus would be late, I arranged with her teacher that I would pick her up a bit earlier this afternoon. I was at school way too early, had to wait for M. as she was still at her P.E. class, but she showed up at said time and we left school perfectly on schedule. We even had time to pick up a flower for little sister. All was going well.
M. and I, ended up being 15 minutes early at the pick-up location and so did daddy. And there, we ran into another mom who told us she just got a text message letting us know the kids were stuck in traffic and hence would be 15 to 30 minutes later. 'That would leave us enough time to go for a quick coffee'. And so we did with a couple of other parents. The rest of the story you can of course guess... The bus caught up on its delay and got there at the scheduled time. Only, we weren't there...
Can you believe this!? I could cry when I got a text message telling 'the kids are back', while we were still sipping our coffees...
Anyway, M. and I jumped up and started running like crazy - I guess K. was running too, I can't tell, because all I wanted was get there as fast as I could.
I'm not sure little H. actually noticed we weren't there yet. But it ruined everything for me - I wanted to see that bus pull up the parking area, I wanted to see those little faces behind the windows, I wanted to see that door open, I wanted to see my little girl and let her know we had been waiting for her to come back.

- instead, however, we had been sipping coffee...