Hello! Oh, it feels good to be blogging again. For those of
you who follow the blog, I’m sorry I’ve been out of touch. When I hopped on
this morning to look, my last blog post was December of last year.
A month before I finally started my first semester of
nursing school. Coincidence? I think not! There’s nothing quite like nursing
school to suck every last ounce of time and sanity, and make entire months fly
by. Don’t get me wrong. I love every second of it. I am WAY past excited to
have passed my first semester and be moving into my second, and am greatly
looking forward to finishing school 18 months from now (finally) and become an official part of the healthcare team in our
community.
But while it feels like nursing school is consuming my life
right now, I still have the usual rigamarole of parenting on my plate,
including (but not limited to)…drumroll please…
BACK TO SCHOOL!
Yep, you know what I’m talking about. Rolling into the end
of August, it seems like there’s a never ending line of back to school nights
and freshman orientation (dear god when did I get a kid old enough to go to
high school?) and supply drop offs. Not to mention shopping for school supplies
in the first place.
We’re home schooling Princess C this year due to some
medical issues that made school an absolute nightmare for us last year. This
is a never-before-tried endeavor that I’m sure you’re going to find as
entertaining as we are. Or at least, I hope you will, or you’re probably going
to get sick of hearing me complain about it. For the record, I take donations
of wine and chocolate any time. I’m also happy to share. So when your own
nerves are stretched to the limit, come on over!
The boys, however, will be going back to public school. Mr.
A because he’s starting high school, which means Regents classes, and G-money because
the thought of having to homeschool more than one child on top of working part
time and going to school is enough to induce a full blown migraine just
thinking about it, and he doesn’t really want to home school anyway. Which
means it’s time to do the annual back to school shopping thing.
I’m one of those psycho parents that does all of their
school supply shopping in July, mostly because I know if I wait until August
there’s going to be a huge crowd of people everywhere I go and they’re going to
be out of what I need. And there’s always that one thing that the kids need
that no one on the planet actually carries, so I have to take the plunge and
order it online. Which usually means Amazon and two day delivery, but every
once in a while we actually find something that Amazon doesn’t carry and have
to order it regular express.
A note for all Amazon
Prime Members: There are certain things you can order on Amazon and, if you
select regular shipping instead of two day Prime shipping, you can score a $5
credit toward Amazon pantry items. I’m working on stocking mine up for
Christmas as we speak!
School clothes shopping is another story altogether.
Somehow, even though my kids are finally hitting that point where I can
reasonably predict what they’re going to be wearing next year, I still can’t
get ahead of the clothing shopping curve. It’s insane. Instead of stocking up
on clearance items, I inevitably end up paying full price for things they’re
going to have outgrown by Christmas anyway.
Which is another topic altogether. A friend of mine asked me
an interesting question the other day, and one I hadn’t really ever put a whole
lot of thought into. How many school outfits do you usually buy for your kids
for the new school year?
When reviewing, I realized that we have a general trend when
it comes to school clothes shopping. I clean out everything in their drawers that
doesn’t fit (which ends up being just about everything) and then shop until
they have five full outfits, one set of dress clothes for concerts, and in
Princess C’s case, at least one, sometimes two “girlie” dresses or skirt sets
for if she feels like dressing up. The boys get a pair of sneakers and a pair
of boots, and Princess C grabs sneakers and some kind of dress shoe. (Her red
boots are the favorite right now.)
What's on your usual school clothes shopping list? Feel free to share in the comments, along with any awesome tips or tricks you have about saving money while you do it-because let's face it, with the price of things these days, we parents need all the help we can get!
Thanks for listening to me ramble. My goal is to invest more
time blogging this year than I did last, and I look forward to sharing more of
our misadventures with you! Have a fantastic week guys.
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