"It's the most wonderful time of the year"……..

Every year when the Staples commercial starts playing for back to school supplies I start giggling and realize it’s the time to get everything organized and ready once again.

Get the school supply list out and sort through what leftovers we have from the year before we can "reuse". Then heading to the stores to try and find all the "new" supplies, including the 3 boxes of Kleenex to share with the class and the 12x18 sketch book. Some of the items are not so easy to find and you can spend so much time looking for them.

Then comes the school clothes shopping, making sure that you have not 1 but 3 pairs of runners. You have to have the daily walking to school shoes, the non-skid non-marking gym runners for phys-ed and then the spare pair in your locker in case the ones you wear everyday to school get dirty.
I don't mind but it does get a bit out of hand, especially since children usually grow and those 3 pairs alone may not make it through the whole school year. Then the different colored tshirts for the different team color days. Do you know how hard it is to find a plain purple tshirt for a boy?
What happened to those days where you had a pencil case, notebook, binder and 1 pair of runners and another pair of shoes? We never had to bring in Kleenex for the whole class either you used your sleeve or went to the bathroom and used toilet paper.

Well the kids are back to school once again and most motorists are obeying the school ground zone speed limits, the alarms are going off and most of the time everyone is getting up and ready when they need to. The weather has been exceptionally nice which has been so fortunate.
I always take a first day of school picture and this year I forgot until after school that day. My son was accommodating and did the posing for me. I love scrapbooking that picture and seeing how much they have changed and grown from the year before. Do you take pictures of your children on the first day of school? If so, do you do a different layout every year or just put the pictures next to the year before?

My name is Carolyn and I am a "scrapper" and have been a friend and customer of Embellished Memories since just after they opened their doors. I will be popping on the blog every couple of weeks for some stories, quotes and ideas or to get your ideas on a project I am working on. See you soon!