School Supplies

It’s that time of year again. The time when I search my email for an hour for the school supply lists that the school sent to me a month ago. At some point I start to question my sanity and if the list ever even existed at all. Then I get frustrated, go get a popsicle from the garage freezer, sit back down and find the lists in 30 seconds flat. 

At that point the fun is just beginning because now I have to sort through the leftover supplies that I optimistically saved from last year. I test all the highlighters. I make an executive decision that wide rule paper and college rule paper aren’t all that different and that college rule will be just fine for my little geniuses. Then I marvel at how many bottles of Elmer’s glue and glue sticks I have. I mean. I kind of look like a doomsday prepper. But one who only hoards glue………. And Ellio’s pizza.

Now that I’ve been able to cross a few things off my list, (Ironically Elmer’s is not on this year’s list) it’s time to go to Target. Because school starts in (checks calendar) four days, Target is cleaned out of certain things. I head over to the office supply section and manage to make a huge score by grabbing one of the last three boxes of Ticonderoga pencils. The Ferrari of wooden pencils. All in all, the trip goes pretty well. I only have to go back in once, to get the boxes of tissues that were actually the very first thing on my list. The only thing l have left to find is the unicorn list item. You know what I’m talking about. The thing the teacher threw on the list out of spite. The thing that you wander around the store looking for, but probably doesn’t even exist. That “13 pack of colored pencils which must include the colors burnt sienna and silver.” No surprise, I couldn’t find it. So I bought more Elmer’s.