Billy starts Kindergarten on Monday.  This is a big day.  I have been talking it up so that he will get excited. Some days he is and others not so much.  We don’t live too far from the school and we pass by it on our way to the store.  I always take this opportunity to point out the school and how nice it is, etc…  Billy will be riding the bus to school.  We live just over a mile so they offer bus transportation.  At first, I wasn’t sure about this but I think it will be a good idea for him to ride the bus.  When he went to preschool, I would walk him to his class. It never failed at the beginning of the year, he would hold onto me and not want to to go into the classroom.  Now that he will be riding the bus, he can’t do that.  Well he can, but he won’t have anybody to hold onto.  Today,  I mentioned that he would be riding the bus and showed him the bus stop.  He said, “Mommy, I will ride the bus to school and then when I get there I want you to pick me up.”  I guess he is planning his escape already.