In Search Of…Back to School Edition
HALLELUJAH!!! The school finally, FINALLY, called! Both of my boys will indeed be able to go to our school of choice and Gideon will have the same kindergarten teacher that Ethan did last year. PHEW! And so what have we been up to lately? Buying school supplies, of course! It’s a good thing that the school took so long to notify us about our transfer request, because otherwise school shopping might have been a one-stop trip. This way, we got to go to three different stores (Target, Walmart, and Winco) to get all the necessary supplies. Because you just can’t get enough of watching grown adults crash carts into each other and fight over the very last Hannah Montana lunch box.
There weren’t even that many things on the list. The hardest to find items? The ever popular 24 count box of Crayola crayons and the highly coveted Pink Pearl erasers. I found the crayons at Winco last night while on a late night cookie dough and root beer run, but the erasers remain elusive. Now, I know that he is not going to be ridiculed in front of the classroom by his teacher if we aren’t able to find them, but Ethan’s nervous enough about starting first grade as it is. The horror of showing up without them or with *shudder* a GENERIC VERSION is unimaginable.
And so begins Operation Pink Pearl. I’ll be spending the next few days scouring the grocery stores and other Walmart and Target locations near us looking for the blasted things! Curse you Papermate and your high-quality, non-smearing, non-paper-tearing erasability!
Strong and fierce maiden. Take care in your
mighty quest!
Comment by mom — August 28, 2008 @ 6:10 pm
I wonder if there’s an obscure store around there that might have something like that. Some ghost store where no one ever goes, like K’mart, or Office Max.
Comment by Claudious — August 28, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
If you don’t want to actually have to waste all the gas GOING to stores to leave dejected, you could just call all the stores that you can think of.
Maybe one has just gotten a shipment in and would be willing to hold a pink pearl or two at the customer service desk for you?
But Staples and OfficeMax should have them. I’d hope, anyways. ^_^
Comment by Allanna — August 29, 2008 @ 8:52 am
I saw those pink erasers at Rite Aid, but I don’t know if they were generic or not. E had to have mini tape dispensers, which I had never heard of. I also found those at Rite Aid for 50cents a peice. Good luck. I am glad the kids got into the school you wanted.
Comment by Heidi — August 29, 2008 @ 10:03 am
Did you find them, did you find them?!?! I’m on the edge of my seat!
Thankfully I took Diesel a couple weeks ago and I think we have 99% of what we need. We are now left with just needing the top half of his uniform. White collared shirt….I should probably go get at least one this weekend. hmmmm….Damn it.
Comment by Nicole - Raising Animals — August 29, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
Mine both start on Wednesday!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Claudia — August 30, 2008 @ 1:28 pm