Morning schedule adjustment
The town is screwing around with out of district bus schedules; we got a new van driver this morning for Robert, and she called yesterday (very apologetically) to let us know that she was going to be there at least 15 minutes earlier than usual to pick him up.
As it is, Robert was leaving the house at 7:00 and not getting home until 4:00 -- that's the longest "school day" of any of the kids (though technically, Emme's out of the house longer, as she goes straight from school to an after school program four days a week and generally doesn't get home before 6:30).
Anyway, he put up a fuss yesterday when we told him -- he's unhappy getting ready that time of the morning -- but he grinned and bore it this morning, and managed to get out on time. And the good news is that the driver called this afternoon to let me know that they were readjusting his schedule back to 7:00 or so. So hopefully this will be a zero sum game, after all is said and done.