school daze

And so the school year began.

I have to admit that it seemed a little bit anticlimactic this year, all that preparation and then WHAM - we're there and the FIRST DAY is over.

I also have to admit that I love shopping for school supplies. Maybe it is my days of working in an office supply store, maybe it is the fact that I didn't have any say so when it was my turn (way back in the day), maybe it is because there are sooo many cool choices ... or maybe I am just strange.

I wonder if anyone else, over age 12, gets the incredible craving for Cool Pens and notebooks when summers end nears. Fortunately, I still have children under the age of 12, so I can live vicariously through them ...

This year my list is vast - with a child in each level of school (pre, elementary, middle and high school), my options for cool and funky is pretty limitless! Of course we have to start with Crayons and Colored Pencils - it does NOT matter that we already have an abundant supply lurking around the house, we all (ahem, I mean the kids) need NEW shiny tools for the first day of school.

Then we move into Folders, which of course I still call a Pee Chee making me totally uncool with my kids ... moving on to glue, scissors, sharpeners, erasers, uber cool Highlighters, the must have Binder and my all time FAVORITE post-it-notes - my favs coming from LeSportsac.

I will admit an affinity towards Lisa Frank and fun and fancy sticky notes - but really, does everything have be to be sold in multi-packs costing $10 - $12 - for sticky note? It's a bit much, isn't it?

Ah well, I skimped and bought the Rose Art Crayons, so I can afford a few cute sticky notes ... and cool pens, don't forget the cool pens.

I just don't know how I am going to sneak them away from the kids.

Nettie

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds

You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.
Nehemiah 9:6