Daylight Drama

I have a cute little kindergarten-er in my class this year. We'll call her "Dori" After the first week of school my aide and I were talking about her and we realized that she reminded us both of the character "Dori" off of the movie 'Finding Nemo." She is always so happy and smiling, and yet at the same time she has no idea what is going on around her. She's had a lot of seizures in the past few years and they've really affected her. Her mom is great. She comes from humble circumstances, tries really hard and does the best she can for her little girl. They live close enough that her mom walks her to school every morning and is waiting in the hallways with two little ones waiting to pick her up after school.

Well it was a Monday morning. Not any old Monday, but it just happened to be the first day back after the daylight savings switch in the fall. I had come to early to prepare some things for the week and was busy about working in my classroom when at what was 7:40 I hear "Dori's" mom running down the hall saying "Hurry, Hurry Dori we're late!" At that time there weren't many other people in the school and that is sometimes weird when the big building is so quiet. So to hear that was very out of place. When they came rushing through the door and saw the classroom was empty with no kids. They both had very confused looks on their faces. I'm glad I was there and explained the whole daylight savings time switch. She was pretty embarrassed, but I just had to laugh at how cute this mom was in trying to get her there on time. Unlike some of my other children's parents who could care less.