Yep, It's Strep!

I woke up feeling even worse yesterday morning. I decided I should probably go into the Doctor. I was running a fever of 102.4 at the Doc's office. He did a strep test (yuck, I hate those! Those long q-tip looking things they scrape your throat with...ew). He came back in the exam room and said that it was strep.

He prescribed me an antibiotic. I spent the entire afternoon sleeping. Last night was terrible. I woke up soaked in sweat, but couldn't take the covers off because I would freeze! I hate not being able to get comfortable.

Tylenol hasn't seemed to be cutting it for me either. I take it and I'm still in terrible pain and running a fever. Guru picked me up some Ibuprofin. I took some of that a little while ago, and for the first time in the past couple of days, I'm not in incredible pain. Thank God for that! Well, I'm off to rest some more. Hopefully I will be feeling much better tomorrow!

Ow!

I have come down with something overnight. Yesterday I was fine. Right before bed, I noticed my throat starting to hurt a little bit. I had a difficult time getting comfortable last night, and tossed and turned all night. All the while, my throat started hurting more and more.

This morning, it was terrible! I took a couple of Tylenol and it started feeling a bit better. Now that the meds have worn off, not only is my sore throat back worse than this morning, but it's accompanied by body aches. My neck, shoulders, and arms feel so sore! I think I have a fever, too!

I hate being sick. I take vitamins every day! I think I'm going to be upping my vitamin C for a little while. It seems I end up getting strep throat at least once a year! I really, really hope that this isn't strep!

Time for some more Tylenol! OW!

Analogies and Metaphors

Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners.....

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.


2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.


3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.


4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.


5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.


6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.


7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.


8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.


9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.


10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.


11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.


12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.


13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.


14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.


15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.


16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.


17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.


18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.


19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.


20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.


21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.


22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.


23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.


24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.


25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

Fun Time Away

Well we were a bit later getting out of town than we expected to. But not too late. We got to our hotel and checked in around 4:45. We headed up to our room and decided that we really didn't have time to go eat at a restaurant before getting over to the Civic Center by 6:00, when the doors opened. So we ended up just ordering room service.

We were within walking distance from where we needed to go. Right across the street from our hotel was a mall. We actually ended up just walking through the mall to get to the conference (since it was raining). We ended up sitting in the upper level, but we had a great view and we weren't surrounded by too many people, so it was actually more comfortable than being down on the floor. We decided to come back and sit in the same seats on Saturday too.

Beth was great as usual. She is so animated when she speaks that she just draws you in to what she is saying and is quite funny as well. Travis Cottrell and his praise team were awesome too. No Mandisa this time though. :(

After the conference was over around noon on Saturday, we (the 5 of us from our small group plus one of the ladies' sister) headed out to get some lunch at an Italian place called Gratzi. It was very yummy. Then we dropped our things off in our hotel room and hit the mall. We spent several hours just walking around and shopping! It was so much fun, even though I only purchased a couple of things. After shopping, we headed back to our hotel to decide what we wanted to do for dinner. We heard as we were walking back in the hotel that there was a manager's reception for all guests every night from 5:30 to 7:30. It was already about 7:00 but we went down to check it out.

They have different hors d'oeuvres every night. That night they had a spinach dip (very good, and not e coli infested) with chips and these little slices of bread with cream cheese and salmon on them. Apparently they had little sandwiches before we got down there too, but they were gone. They also had free cocktails and soft drinks. All free for guests! After that, we headed back to the room and snacked on wheat thins, and dark chocolate kit kats and called it dinner. We also played a game called Dirty Minds that one of the ladies bought at the mall. Very funny game! We also did facials and scrubbed our feet and did our nails. One of the ladies in the group sells Arbonne, so we got to use the goods.

Sunday we slept in and went down to a free breakfast. They had a bar set up with scrambled eggs, hash browns, French toast, biscuits, sausage gravy, and grits. They also had an entire bar of different kinds of fruits. They had cereals, any kind of juice you could want, soft drinks, tea, and coffee. AND a cook to order omelet bar. They had all the fresh ingredients out and you could just tell the lady what you wanted in it and she made it right there in front of you. She also served freshly made pancakes, and bacon and sausage. We were all completely stuffed!!

We requested a late check out for 1:00. After our breakfast settled, 3 of us headed down to check out the hot tub for a while. We got down there and the hot tub was WAY too hot. We joked that the jets weren't' even on, it was just boiling. We couldn't even get in it. We were able to get in the heated pool though.

After hanging out, chatting in the pool for a while, we headed back up to the room to get showers and packed up. We headed out at 1:00. We ended up stopping for an early dinner/late lunch at Red Lobster. After that it was on home to our families! (Me to my poor sick baby!)

It was such a fun weekend hanging out with the girls. Lots of fun and laughter. It is so great to have such a wonderful group of friends. I feel so comfortable with all of them and feel like I can tell them anything, and truly be myself with them and they don't judge me. And, they all feel the same way. We are going to try to start meeting again regularly. It is difficult for us to try to meet every week, so we have it on the calendar to meet 2 Monday evenings in October.

Weekend Getaway

Well, in about 30 minutes, I should be on my way out of town. As I mentioned yesterday, I am headed to a Beth Moore Conference. It is always a spiritually uplifting time of praise and worship. I am looking forward to it.

I am also looking forward to the R & R I plan on getting. It will be a nice change of pace for me to be able to go and only be responsible for myself....That is always nice!

So, wish me safe travel and a good time! I should be back home sometime on Sunday. Let's just hope the place isn't in total disarray when I return.

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Thanks, A.W.F.I.

I saw your post the other day about my hair. Thank you. I have been trying to comment on your blog as well, but it doesn't go through. Perhaps for the same reason you can't comment here??

I got an honest response from Oz on Sunday too (about my hair). He said he didn't like it in my pictures on here. But, he said in person, he liked it. I think maybe the pictures make it look more drastic than it really is. I don't know.

Finally Friday!

I went to Trin's mom and got my hair cut today. Not drastically. Just a little off the ends to help it lay flatter when I straighten it. It has been flipping up at the ends, even when I use the flat iron, from the way it was cut last time. It will probably still flip up some because I didn't want her to chop all my hair off, but it should help. I also asked for a few chunky blonde highlights on top. She came back out with two bowls of color. She said, "I mixed up some blonde and some red for ya."

I generally trust her with my hair and let her do what she thinks will look good. So, I said "go for it". Here is the finished product.





What do you think?

Sleepy Days!

It has been rainy here for the past couple of days. I get so sleepy when it rains! Why is that? Is it just me? I have such a hard time getting out of bed on mornings that it's raining. Ok, I have a hard time getting out of bed any morning, but rainy mornings are worse!

I never seem to be able to completely wake up on rainy days. I just feel so groggy and tired all day. Can't seem to get my butt movin'.

I know the rain is good, we need rain. But, I am SO looking forward to some dryer, cooler (yet sunny), Fall days!


Rain, rain go away!!

More Long Days

Yesterday morning, I got a call from my grandma. She said she was in the E.R. She woke up with chest pains, shortness of breath, and tightening in her throat. She has apparently been experiencing some chest pains lately and was already scheduled for a stress test next Monday. So, when whe woke up like that yesterday, she thought she should go get it checked out.

They ran some tests and told her that things looked pretty good, but they wanted to keep her overnight for observations. They said that if the bloodwork they did later in the day came back ok too, that she may be able to go home even that evening.

However, not too long later, the nurse came back in and said that the Cardiologist wanted to do a heart cath. to be safe since the tightness in her throat wasn't going away. I was in the room with her when they told her that, and I got an uneasy feeling because of what happened to my grandfather just last year.

It also worries me that if something were to happen to her before my grandfather...I don't know what we'd do. He is not capable of taking care of himself full time. He has the beginning stages of alzheimer's and has tons of meds he has to take everyday and he relies on her to give them to him. (I had to sort out all of them for him last night, fun!) If she were to go before him, I honestly wouldn't expect him to make it another year.

Anyway, my friend A watched my son for me this morning so I could go sit with my grandfather while my grandma was having the procedure. (Thanks, A!) Everything turned out good. There were no complications and they didn't find anything concerning. No blockages or anything. Praise God! They think it may be a problem with her stomach. She'll be having that checked into further.

So, she was able to come home this afternoon! She wanted to stop and eat lunch at their favorite place. So I picked up my son then we ate and I took them both home.

Man, I could definately live without this added stress! But, I'm just glad she's alright!

In case you were wondering: Besides the whole memory loss thing (which has been building for years) my grandfather is doing SO much better. He had a difficult year and we almost lost him more than once. He was using a walker and was on oxygen for a while as well. Now, by looking at him, you'd never be able to tell. He's just made a wonderful recovery! No more walker (just his old cane that he's used for years) and no more oxygen tank.

I LOVE The Fall!

This is my absolute favorite time of the year!! The weather is perfect. I just love being able to open up all the windows and let the fresh air flow through the house. It's just so relaxing! All Summer and all Winter are spent closed up inside because of the heat or the cold. You can't have the windows open when it's 100 degrees or 30 degrees outside. Spring is nice, but usually rainy and yucky outside. But Autumn is the best! It is usually the time of year when I am the least depressed.

There are just so many fun things to do in the Fall. Like going apple picking and going to the pumpkin patch. Dressing up for Halloween and getting all kinds of candy (thank goodness I have kids to do that for me). I love going to the pumpkin show every year. Harvest festivals at different churches, hay rides, bonfires. Not to mention the colorful trees. I love it!

Autumn, the best season of them all, seems to go by the quickest. Is it because it's such a great time and I'm having so much fun that it just seems to slip by? Or could it be that usually October is about all the Fall we get? Usually, here in good ole' Ohio, it stays pretty warm through to the end of September. This year, so far has been a nice change, we're acutally experiencing some not so hot weather here right now. Then by November, it starts getting really cold out.

And that is when my depression usually kicks in full force! I'm pretty sure I suffer from SAD. It's dark when I get up in the mornings and dark again by 6:00 p.m. It just feels like the days pass by so fast. I hate it when it's all snowy and slushy and slippery on the roads. Trying to lug kids and groceries and whatever else through snow and ice is never fun.

If it were up to me, we would have October weather from September 1st through December 23rd. Then we could have a nice white christmas and it could be cold through the rest of the year. Just no more snow!

Oh well, at least I just got my Effexor dosage upped! Maybe it'll be fully kicked in by the time stupid winter comes!

Inconsiderate Neighbors

As you know, we live in an apartment. That means that our "yard" is shared with lots of other people. Well, we recently got some new neighbors right next door. They have a dog. A big dog. There is a rule in our community that if you have a dog, you must pick up after it when it does it's business. Great rule! Excellent rule! I LOVE that rule! The new neighbors, however, don't seem to care about said rule.

I have seen the lady out walking around with her dog on several occasions. Did she have a plastic bag or a pooper-scooper with her? NOOOO! And, since they are right next door that means that a lot of this dog's "business" is pretty much right outside our back door. Right where our kids play! Can you guess what's next? Yep, my kids end up stepping in it!

The girls were out back on Saturday playing and some of their friends from down the street came down to play and between the 5 kids out there, there were at least 3 different times that one or another of them stepped in dog poo!!

I mean, SERIOUSLY PEOPLE, clean up after your freaking dogs!!!! It's one thing if you have your own yard and you don't clean up after your dog, but when you have to share a yard with other people and you know that lots of kids frequently play in the grass...that's a WHOLE other story! It's just plain rude and inconsiderate to not pick it up immediately!

On top of that, we had some more new neighbors move into the building behind us. They rent a garage that is in front of our building. They have Harley's. Loud Harley's. Sounds like huge trucks that have had their mufflers fall off Harley's! When do these neighbors like to ride their loud bikes? After 10:00 p.m. Every. Single. Night!!!

They don't just start 'em up and leave either. Oh, no! They turn them on, rev them up, and let them "warm up" for about 20 minutes before they leave. So we have to sit here and listen to them for that time every night. It's even worse now that we've turned off our air conditioner and opened the windows. Of course we close our son's windows at night, but even with them closed, the bikes are extremely loud (and practically right under his windows!)

Are you kidding me? Do you have absolutely NO consideration for other people? Are you so self obsorbed that you don't give a flying freak that people may be trying to sleep at that time. Have you not noticed all the children that live in this community that may, I don't know, have to get up for school in the morning and that you might just be interrupting their sleep?

COME ON PEOPLE! GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR REARS! OPEN YOUR EYES! YOU'RE DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!

Movie anyone?

Apparently if you've seen more than 85 of these ... you have no life. I guess I have no life, cause I've seen exactly 85. How many have you seen?

*(UPDATED: I looked back and realized that I accidentally left 2 movies checked from the person who sent this to me that I hadn't actually seen. I fixed it. I guess I still have no life though at 85.)

There are 168 movies :)

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Boondock Saints
( ) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
( ) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Airplane

Total: 3

( ) The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan: The Legend of Ron Burgandy(the freakin best!)
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
( ) Labyrinth
( ) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total: 9

(x) Scream
(x) Scream 2
(x) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
(x) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp

Total: 19

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
(x) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch

Total: 26

(x) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (new one)
(x) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
(x) 13 Going on 30
( ) I, Robot
(x) Robots

Total: 32

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
( ) KING KONG

Total: 38

(x) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
(x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris (the Mary-Kate and Ashley movie?)
(x) Dumb & Dumber
(x) Dumber & Dumberer
(x) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber

Total:44

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
( ) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
( ) The Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
(x) The Whole Ten Yards

Total: 48

( ) The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
( ) Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
( ) The Grudge
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask

Total: 55

( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Sleven
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
( ) Identity
( ) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
( ) Ice Age
(x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George

Total: 59

( ) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
(x) Children of the Corn
(x) My Bosses Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
( ) Frailty
( ) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2

Total: 65

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
( ) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
( ) The Terminator
( ) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3

Total: 70

( ) X-Men
( ) X2
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
( ) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Others
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
(x) Cruel Intentions 2
(x) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2

Total: 79

(x) Swimfan
( ) Miracle
(x) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin

Total: 85

Happy Belated!

My 2nd Blogiversary was August 14th! How could I have not remembered? I could have had a party, a cake, balloons, maybe even pony rides! But no, I didn't even think about it. Actually, I don't think I remembered my 1st one either. Oh well, not that big of a deal. But, man, it sure doesn't seem like it's been 2 years since I started this thing!!

Vanilla Frosty!

Has anyone else tried one of these?



What do you think? I think they are pretty good. I'll usually pick chocolate over vanilla on most things. While I wouldn't say I like the vanilla better than the chocolate frosty, I would say that I probably like them both about the same. So, I guess now it will just be a matter of my mood at the time to determine which I would choose. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, as I am really bad at making these kinds of life-altering decisions.

And they're off!

They got off to a good start to the year today. They both got up and ate breakfast, got dressed, brushed their hair and teeth and were ready to head out the door about 40 minutes early! They stood on the porch for most of that time, just waiting for when they could head down to their bus stop!

I hope this will last. I know last year, there were several days when they were racing against the clock to make it to the bus on time. I know it was probably just the excitement of the first day back, but a mom can hope, right?

Two More Days!

Today and tomorrow, then the girls will be back in school. My younger daughter is going into 1st grade, so she will be starting full days at school. I ask her if she is excited about going to school all day, and she says she isn't. She doesn't want to go all day. She's worried she will be bored.

I have assured her that she will not be bored, but will have a lot of things to do and learn and the day will fly by. I told her she may even have an extra recess too. That got her attention. Her Kindergarten teacher told us that she would often rush through her work so that she could play. I hope she will slow down a bit this year and work more carefully.

It was kind of funny getting that report from her teacher since all of our older daughter's teachers have always given a completely opposite report on her. She is more of a perfectionist. She takes her time on her work and would often end up spending time during her recesses catching up on her work that she did not complete in class. She gets upset if, when she is coloring, she gets out of the lines even a little. Her handwriting has always been, by far, the best of her classmates, but it's because she takes her time and has to have every letter perfect. If it doesn't look good to her, she will erase it and do it over.

It is interesting to see their individual personalities. It will be interesting to see how our son does when he gets to school. Maybe he'll be a good mixture of both!

Anyway, we went on one last adventure yesterday before school starts on Thursday. Thanks to a friend of mine who works for Children's Hospital and is able to get day passes, we spent the day at Fort Rapids Indoor Waterpark. We had a blast! The only thing that bugged me was the inconsistancy of the workers. They rotated stations probably every half hour. To go down the tunnel slides, you had to be at least 48 inches tall. We went up the steps and even my younger daughter was able to go down each slide. The 4th time up, they had switched workers and the new guy measured my younger daughter against the stick and she was just under the height limit. He said he couldn't let her go down the slides because she was too short. GRRR! So it just depended on who was manning the slides as to whether she could go down them or not. That was kind of frustrating.

There were a different set of slides that you lay on this mat on your stomach and go through a tunnel and come out at the end and go down this steep hill. That one only required you to be 42 inches tall, so she was able to do those with no issues. She had a blast on those slides. So did I! It was a fun day and we all slept well last night too.

Who's Cool!?

Just chillin' like a villian!

Done!

Well, yesterday was a long day, but we got all of our school shopping done. We bought all the supplies from their lists even the bookbags with wheels that they wanted. They were a little more expensive than the other ones, but will be worth it for them. I know last year, my older daughter had so much stuff to carry to and from school. Her bookbag was always so heavy. I wish they had those when I was in school!

We also bought shoes and a ton of clothes for them. After all that shopping, I went grocery shopping and also filled up the gas tank in my van. After all was said and done, a lot of money was spent. But it was all stuff we needed and I got some really good deals. For all that was purchased, it really wasn't all that much!

It was the first time we were able to buy all their school supplies and clothes all in one day (and not have to spread it out over several paychecks) and know that it wasn't going to possibly set us behind on our other bills. What a great feeling! Who knows, it could be the last time, too. If we ever buy another house or have to pay more for our rent, then we may not have that freedom in the future. We shall see, I guess. (I hate being a pessimist!)

Nonetheless, it was a fun day of shopping. My oldest daughter said she hoped that she didn't have to go shopping again for the rest of the year. I guess I wore her out.

School Shopping

Well, it's that time again. Time to go back to school shopping. Guru gets paid tomorrow, so I will be hitting the stores. Between the two girls, I need to buy:

• 2 boxes of 24 ct. Crayola crayons


• 1 8X5 school box


• 1 pencil bag


• 1 pink eraser


• 1 pkg. cap erasers


• 1 pk. loose leaf, wide ruled paper


• 1 spiral notebook


• 3 large boxes of tissues


• 5 glue sticks


• 2 boxes of colored pencils


• 1 box broad tip markers


• 2 black dry erase markers


• 1 highlighter


• 1 set of water colors


• 1 box of #2 pencils


• 9 double pocket folders with clasps


• 2 pairs of scissors


• 1 roll of clear tape


• 1 box of gallon sized ziplock bags


• 1 roll of paper towels


• 1 container of disinfecting wipes


• 1 black, blue or red pen

On top of all that, they need new bookbags. They both want ones with wheels. Then of course new shoes and clothes.

So, I'm thinking of making a day of it and taking the kids to breakfast and then hitting the stores. Should be fun.