Axel Annie

I can barely drive my own kids through bad weather and worries about things we might run into.
 Bus drivers drive our kids every day and are tough cookies. My favorite fictional tough cookie bus driver is Axel Annie! And when we get sent home early and face snow tomorrow too, I think of her!

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