our carpool friend

This year was the first year our family has done *real* school. Yeah, yeah, we've had 2 years of preschool a few blocks away, but this was the real deal.

Kindergarten.

Overall, we were very excited. But the one question mark, the one point that still made me nervous, was the drive. I really wanted to find a good family to share the driving. Even though the school is just 6 miles away (pretty close for our area), sharing the gas, time, and energy seemed like the right thing to do. What seemed like common sense was to be a way that God showed my family his blessing.

So I put a little notice on the school's yahoo group asking for interested families in our neighborhood. All the while, I'm wondering, "do I really trust a stranger to transport my often volatile daughter in a motor vehicle?"

Well, just one family responded. And listen to this. The family lives less than one mile from my home. The family has an older girl (that the child be older was crucial because my sedan couldn't accommodate another carseat, that the child was a girl was just a bonus). As for the trustworthiness, I took it as a good sign that the family is part of the exact church where I was baptized as a baby. The mother is also a nurse, so I felt that my daughter was in good hands.

So for the past few months, we've been sharing rides in the afternoons and it's been a huge blessing! The girl has even expressed an interest in babysitting in the future and I feel like we're setting a good foundation for that.

Thank you, God, for providing our carpool friend!

Here's the kindergartner herself, shortly after school started this past fall.