Pencil boxes, crayons, and glue sticks, Oh my!

After my inspections this morning (possibly my last inspections?), I stopped by Target and Office Depot to hunt for back-to-school specials and Boxes. I found a couple decent specials (12 pack Crayola colored pencils for 10 cents each!) and one box. I was told that I’d do better at 8:00 on a Friday or Saturday morning, so we’ll give that a try. When I got home, though, I found that the wooden pencil holders (one for each student, no matter that K. has no interest in beginning her academic career – I’m getting wise enough to this Mommy business to know that despair and disaster would have ensued if I’d only bought one!) were a big hit. Pencil dropping is a major problem here at _____ Academy. T. has been known to drop ten pencils during the course of a math lesson. Our lovely new pencil holders, with holes for ten pencils, will provide enough pencils for even the clumsiest student (that would be T.!). K. was in special raptures over her new Hello Kitty and Disney Princess spiral notebooks, but exclaimed over each item with a joyful “Oh, Mom, I’ve always wanted a _____!!” We’ve been in “maintenance” mode for school since the beginning of July, with just enough math, writing, and reading to keep T. from getting really rusty, and I don’t expect to really get going on our new school year until September (which always seems like when the school year should start, to me, anyway), but we are now well supplied with all that fun, back-to-school stuff.