Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Back to School, and I'm kind of jealous

It's that time of year, the stores are filling up w/ fresh, crisp paper, perfect crayons that have yet been chewed upon, lunch boxes and backpacks, and for the first time ever, I will be the mom buying for my kid. Now, the school Sophia will be attending is kind of making it sorta disappointing because all school supplies are provided for kindergarteners, but she still needs a backpack, lunch box, and some new duds. I'm normally a pretty cheap girl, but since I have to clothe 3 girls, I tend to buy the nice stuff, on a deep discount a season out. That means Miss Sophia already has most of her fall clothes, thank you very much Children's Place Outlet. But, today I spent the big bucks for my dear girl. I know my friend Laura will be proud, because I bought her the first LL Bean backpack in the house. People swear by these things, and I wanted something to take her to the 6th grade. So, she and I looked at the catalog together, and online, and she picked out a purple flowered backpack with her initals on it. I am so excited to take her picture with it on the first day of school. Maia is getting the old backpack that Sophia used for preschool, and on the monumentous occasion of starting kindergarten, she will get a LL Bean as well. It reminds me of when I was a kid, excitedly buying my supplies before school, getting everything neatly stacked, packed, and ready to go. I even had a dream of going back and getting my PhD the other night, that is how in the school zone I am in. So when all those supplies go on sale at the end of August, I may just slip an extra box into the cart, just for me.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Da duh da duh....

Anyone wanna guess what this is? 6am, James leaving for work, and this is what he sees:

There was no noise, and while the darkness makes the video quality poor, he could see the object clearly, and it was a shape similar to a jellyfish. He's super skeptical, and if he took video, then you know he was baffled!