Where to begin?? Alexa is back to school - Oh, happy days! I know, I'm a mean mom. In my defense --- I have no defense, I'm so happy to not have to deal with the daily "Mom, I'm bored, can I have a friend over, go to the pool, have a sleep-over, go to Darien Lake, go shopping for school clothes, take a class at the store, come to work with you..." it went on and on and on...
So here's the first day of school...
Norm is such a softie. He stayed home to see Alexa off on the bus for her first day of 6th grade.
Here is my yearly new shoe photo. As you can see it's missing the shoes...well, you get new flip flops at least. If you asked Alexa, the most important part of the photo is the pedi she talked me into the night before.
We had a bit more of a peaceful time shopping for school supplies. However, (I always have a but!) WHAT A LIST!! I thought last year was bad, I could open my own Office Depot for what I had to get for this child. We moved to this house and town because of the quality of it's school district. Little did we know we needed to take out a home lone to afford the yearly school supplies! Here is a small sampling...
You will note we have everything from swimsuits to safety goggles, pencils to post-its (all 24 required packs!) Antibacterial wipes to over 20, count'em OVER 20 pocket folder in specified colors. Three, not one, not two but THREE locks and three or was it four jumbo cloth book covers at $4.99 apiece! What happened to cut up groceries bags - oh, yeah I fogot - "Is plastic OK?"
ARRRGGGGGG!!!!!!
Lastly, my parting shot is of this gorgeous looking specimen of male youth...Alexa had to take another bag of stuff to school. You had to know she used one of her multitudinous (my word, deal with it) Abercrombie shopping bags. Thus begins the 6th grade!!
3 comments:
Dear Donna,
Alexa looks so sweet and stylish in her school send off photo. That sure looks like a lot of school supplies! We recently got back from settling Laura in for her first yeat of college. It all goes quickly...enjoy!
Barb in NH
isn't it great the amount of stuff we have to buy for school. I thought i paid exorbinate taxes for that but I guess not.
Hey girlfriend; haven't heard from you in a while... hope you are well. I too am shocked by how much you had to buy for school supplies...I'm really feeling lucky this year; not much to buy due to left overs from last year plus Meg's left overs. Biggest expense was a Jansport backpack. Of course I bought him tons of new shirts and what does he wear? His dumb old black faded t-shirts from last year. go figure!
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