BACK TO SCHOOL!

Do you hear me crying?
No.

I love, LOVE, LOVE having my kids home for the summer,

and I would love to have an additional month or two with no school.

But the school district insisted that they come back to school now,

so.........off they go.

Get out. Buh-bye.

So let's get random with Keely at The Unmom.com

* Here are the "Back to School" pictures.

Okay, it was 5:20 in the morning when these were taken.
And my subjects were not very cooperative.

Garrett was the first "victim" to arrive to the kitchen ready to go."

G:"Mom, seriously.......it's dark outside. Can we do this later?"
"Really, let's do this after school."

P: "Mom.......you are NOT taking back to school pictures now. It's 5:20!"

G: "I tried that Parker. She's taking your picture."

I was ready for them when they pulled up in the driveway after school.

* Sunday, Parker came downstairs around 9:30 pm.

"Ummm....Mom? I just realized, we never did any school supply shopping."

Me: "School supplies? What school supplies?"
P: "I don't know."

Me: "Well there are 1,500 sheets of notebook paper, 120 mechanical pencils, 18 spiral notebooks and 12 packs of notecards upstairs in the school supply closet."

P: "But we need binders."

Right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll get right on that.

* Remember last week's cupcake jaunt?

Yes, a new cupcake joint opened and we ventured down there.

First, the cupcake flavors were too weird:

Creme Brulee

Chai Tea

Purple Velvet

But worse, the cupcakes were like bricks.

All of the commercial cupcakes we have tested have been dense little bricks of baked batter.

You know what I like?
Fake cake!

Cake from a mix <- There, I admit it!

I like the light fluffliness of preservatives.

* Tonight, the Bonehead Brothers get their Eagle Scout.

I have to, oops, get to take dessert.

You know what I am going to take?

Yep, cupcakes made from a mix.

But the frosting will be real buttercream.

*Don't you love butter?

*Guess what I get to buy today?

ANOTHER TI-85.

Yeah, Parker needs it (along with the binders) for Algebra 2.

P: "Mom, can we go through Trammell's boxes and find his TI-85?"
Me: "Didn't we do that last year?"

P: "I don't think so. I used Garrett's or I used one of the school's."
Me: "I know. But I swear we got out all the boxes."

P: "Nah."

So we climbed up on top of the shelves and got out all of Trammell's boxes which he so carefully packed before leaving for Cambodia and gave a cursory glance through each one.

After falling off the shelving onto Parker, dropping two boxes from the top shelf, scanning a box of Nerf Guns, and digging through 15 pairs of shoes, we're on box five.

Me: "You know, I am positive we did this last year."

P: "Yeah, I think we did."

Pretty RaNDoM! (but still all about me!)