{"id":2658,"date":"2010-11-23T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:41:18","slug":"margaret-is-grateful-for-her-daughters-bus-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/margaret-is-grateful-for-her-daughters-bus-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret is grateful for: her daughter&#039;s bus driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Month of Thanksgiving post is the winner of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2010\/11\/07\/who-are-you-grateful-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Who are you grateful for?&#8221; contest<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt was difficult choosing just one winner, but here are some reasons I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yangandcampion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Margaret Yang<\/a>&#8216;s ode to her daughter&#8217;s bus driver:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many people wrote about their family, and I&#8217;m delighted to see so many people holding up the love of their parents, siblings, spouse or children. But I&#8217;m not sure how you pick between a beautiful tribute to a husband and loving gratitude for a sister.<\/li>\n<li>By contrast, I liked that Margaret&#8217;s gratitude for her daughter&#8217;s bus driver is about someone she&#8217;s not related to and didn&#8217;t choose to have in her life. Fate could have put a different bus driver, one who shuttles the kids back and forth but little else, on that route. But Miss Penny does something special for Margaret and her daughter, and Margaret appreciates the difference Miss Penny makes.<\/li>\n<li>Margaret also wrote a compelling entry on the &#8220;What are you thankful for?&#8221; contest, and since I&#8217;m the judge, I awarded her a little bonus here for entering both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Because of Margaret&#8217;s gratitude, Miss Penny will either get a Zingerman&#8217;s goodie basket or a flower arrangement, whichever Margaret chooses.<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2659\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/momphard.net\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2659   \" title=\"SchoolBus1\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/schoolbus1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Momphard&#039;s school bus is up on one wheel, but I&#039;m pretty sure Miss Penny keeps them all on the ground.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s Margaret&#8217;s winning entry:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am grateful for my daughter\u2019s bus driver.  School bus driver isn\u2019t  the most glamorous job, but Miss Penny has chosen to be the best driver  she possibly can.  Bus 99 arrives at the exact same time each day, no  matter the weather or road conditions, with Disney Radio always coming  through the speakers.  You\u2019d think that by now, all those Jonas Brothers  and Miley Cyrus songs would have killed off a little piece of her  heart, but Miss Penny is unfailingly cheerful, as happy on Monday  mornings as she is on Friday afternoons.  When my daughter was younger,  Miss Penny added an extra morning stop right at the mouth of our  cul-de-sac, so that my daughter and her (also very little) friend could  wait in full view of their houses.  I loved being able to stand at the  window and watch until my daughter was safely on board.<br \/>\nTwice a day, five days a week, Miss Penny uses a rickety school bus  to transport cargo so precious it should be in an armored truck.  But  with Miss Penny at the wheel, I know my child\u2013and all the children\u2013will  be cherished every mile of the trip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Month of Thanksgiving post is the winner of the &#8220;Who are you grateful for?&#8221; contest. 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