Back to school.
I received this email the day before school started:
Please tell Boone that even though he's no longer in my class, he still needs to visit me in the mornings! I'm not sure if I can start my school day without seeing his cute little face!
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Remember the good old days when life made more sense?!!
Shepard's job is to take care of the cat...
But it is Stafan who loves the cat. Glad someone does. : - ) It has turned into a great mouser though! Guess the cat stays.
This is my breakfast.
Would you all just get in the car!!
After school my nieces showed up.
Stafan's cat was stuck in the tree and meowing like crazy. When he saw Stafan he got his nerve to come down.
livermoreclasspics.org Back to School, 1970s:
1. Take the kids downtown to go shopping at Sears for back to
school clothes the last week of August. Get everyone a new pair of
corduroys and a striped tee shirt. Buy the boys a pair of dungarees and
the girls a pair of culottes. No, Jennifer, you can't have that orange
and red poncho. Promise you will crochet her a better one with much more
fringe. Get the girls a package of that rainbow, fuzzy yarn they like
in their hair. You are done. You have spent a total of $43.00. Now take
everyone to the Woolworth's lunch counter for grilled cheeses and
chocolate milk.
2. On the night before the first day of school (that would be
the Sunday night after Labor Day, of course, you know, mid-September)
throw the kids in the way back of the station wagon and drag them
downtown to Eckerds, K-Mart, Ames, Dollar General, Drug Fair or the like
and hurry them over to the back-to-school area to pick out a lunchbox.
Make sure to tell them get a move on because you don't have all night
for them to make a darn decision. They need to get in bed by eight and
yes, they're going to miss the Wonderful World of Disney if they can't
decide between The Fonz and Dukes of Hazzard. Good Lord, why is it so
hard for them to pick? Tell Kimberly if she can't make up her mind
between Holly Hobbie and The Bionic Woman then you're going to pick Pigs
in Space and you don't want to hear another word about it until June.
Grab a composition book for each of them and a pack of pencils too.
That's all they need. Remember to save some grocery bags so they can
cover their textbooks with them after the first day of school.
3. Buy yourself a pack of Virginia Slims on the way out and smoke three of them on the way home.
5. Spread yellow mustard on bread. Slap bologna on bread. Unwrap American cheese slices and put on top of bologna. Put top on the sandwich and wrap sandwich in tin foil or wax paper. Put it in the lunchbox. Every kid gets the same exact lunch. Period.
6. Alternate sandwich choices could include: Peanut butter
and grape jelly, peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, the end of last
night's leftover roast beef or the ever popular with children tuna fish
with large chunks of onions and celery and Miracle Whip.
7. Put some Planter's Cheese Balls into a baggie and close with a twist tie.
9.Fill thermoses with either Kool-Aid or whole milk.
10. Include a red delicious apple even though you know that
damned apple is just going to come home uneaten again, which is fine
because you can keep adding the same one until it practically rots.
via H&M Back to School, 2014
1. Take five deep breaths and say a positive affirmation.
School begins in two weeks. It is the middle of July. Don't worry, you
still have time to order BPA-free bento boxes and authentic Indian
tiffins made with special stainless steel that did not involve any
child-labor, sweat shops or animal cruelty. Remember, you have Amazon
Prime. You can get the free two day shipping and you will have plenty of
time to read reviews and make this very important decision because your
kids are in summer "camp" which is actually just another word for
school in the summer because OH MY GOD you were so tired that day you
had to have them home all day with you and you couldn't go to your
restorative flow class at yoga. And that was also the day something went
terribly wrong with the homemade glitter cloud dough recipe that was
supposed to go in their sensory bin and the very same day that they were
out of soy milk at Starbucks and you had to immediately email corporate
to let them know that duh, they should actually be selling almond milk
and/ or coconut milk. Get with it Starbucks. Soy is so 90s. Ugh, but you
digress. The tiffin. The bento boxes…
3. Begin frantic online search for backpacks and school bags made from all natural materials yet still "cool." Have them monogrammed.
4. Take kids shopping at the mall for new school clothes. Buy
them each a completely new wardrobe from Gymboree and Crew Cuts. Spend $2,387.07 on your credit card.
5. Take children to the child psychologist to prepare them
mentally for the difficult transition to a new grade, new teacher and
new classroom.
6. Intently study the allergy list the school has sent you
which lists all the items that other children in your children's classes
are allergic to and thus cannot be sent in your child's lunch either.
This is extremely stressful because the last thing you (or anyone) wants
to be responsible for is sending a second grader into anaphylactic
shock. Make notes on your phone so you can remember what not to buy when
you go to Whole Foods.
7. Purchase school supplies for your children. Not to be
confused with the 3 1/2 page list of classroom supplies you are also
responsible for. They will need paper, pens, folders, notebooks, a
calligraphy set, fifteen new apps for their tablets, a graphing
calculator, a scalpel, an electron microscope and a centrifuge.
9. The night before the first day of school prepare the bento boxes. Fill containers with organic, local strawberries intricately cut into the shapes of sea creatures. Include homemade, nut-free granola made with certified gluten-free oats. Make a sandwich on vegan hemp bread out of tahini, kale and jicama. Form it into the shape of your child's favorite Disney character. Make flowers out of non-dairy cheese slices, olives and seaweed. Photograph the finished Bento Box and post it to Instagram.
10. Write your child an encouraging note which includes an inspirational quote.
11. Include a sheet of stickers for good measure.
12. Fill a Siig bottle with filtered water and also include a
box of chilled coconut water in the Bento Box because children can
never be too hydrated. Ever.
13. Blog about this experience. Pray it goes viral and is picked up by HuffPo.
5. Make pancakes in the shape of the letters of the alphabet.
16. Dress kids in coordinated outfits and spend 35 minutes posing and photographing them (with your phone).
17. Load everyone into the car to drive them to school.
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