Small towns are funny, ya know?  Great when people rally around a person in need, not so great when you have to go to the local drug store for a pregnancy test, not because of the people who work there, but because of who you run into.  I’ve become really good at wrapping a People magazine around my box of hair dye.

But then, there is back to school time, and  I simply walk into my friendly, neighborhood Kinburn Pharmasave and say “One grade 4 and one grade 2 please” and they say, “Sure Tina, we’ll call you when they’re done.” And then a week or so later, I go and pick up all my kids school supplies packed neatly in a bag, list attached, anything that wasn’t available highlighted.

And I skip out the door, grateful that I don’t have to enter the madness.  Searching with dozens of panicked people looking for HB pencils and one and three-quarter inch binders that have to be a certain shade of blue!  All I have to do is label everything and sharpen everything, which by the way, I have to see a chiropractor on account of the twisting motion of my hands. I literally sharpened 50 pencils.  To be honest, I didn’t do all 50.  I gave up and I felt like a failure.  No joke, I broke out in a sweat sharpening pencils.  Seriously!

You all know, I have MAD love for teachers!   I’m like Oprah when it comes to teachers.  But last night, I was lamenting with friends, asking, “why put such a specific thing on a list, like grey duo-tangs if they don’t exist”, which clearly they don’t because I had been to four stores, and my only solution I was able to come up with was to bleach a black one.  Then, the daughter of our friend gave us one of her extra duo-tangs.  It was grey.

On the way home, Evan said, “See mommy, grey duo-tangs do exist.  You were wrong!”

Thank you Bromlyn, for saving the day, and proving me wrong.

Happy school year everyone!!  Here is a link to a really great back-to-school idea from one of my favorite websites.  You can download free printable.  Enjoy!

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