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'Twas the night before school
New clothes for school?
Check.
Note that L. picked out jeans to wear on the first day! He hasn't worn a pair of jeans since first grade and I keep doing a double-take when I see him with them on!
New shoes?
Check.
New backpacks waiting by the door?
Check.
New lunch bag for T.--the perfect fit for her bento box?
Check.
And let me just say, for the record, that nothing says the end of summer like having to wake your 11-year old up at 6:00 am for school. Here's to fabulous days back for all our kids!
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much. But now we've been swept into a whirwind existence that is decidedly anti-summer: days that are too measured, too structured, way too hectic.
Each day there are lunches to pack, backpacks to fill, snack containers to fill (and at the end of the day, lunches to unpack, containers to wash, backpacks to unpack), school forms to sign, agendas to sign, homework to supervise and, now that L. is in middle school, we h