When we decided to enroll M in a charter school, the only concern I had was the drive to get there each morning. On average it takes about 25 minutes to drive her to school each day. We drive through 4 towns, past an Air Reserve Base, a college, a few farms, numerous cows and a strip mall to get there. But after a year of driving her for 180 days, I realized that I relish that time we have together in the morning and the conversations we have.
It is during this drive that I have learned about her first kindergarten crush (and the many that followed), who her best friend was (for that week), how to play "Gilligan's Island" in gym class, and countless other tidbits I never would have learned. Some days we talk the whole way to school. Some days we sign the soundtrack from GLEE at the top of our lungs. But every day I cherish this time we have together to start our days.
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