Shopping for School Supplies

Last week's mail brought us a three page letter from Ellie's new preschool teacher. Between verifying bus pick up and drop off times and important dates like meet-the-teacher night and the first day of school, we also got a list of what Ellie needs to take on her first day. So, tonight we bought the first item on the list. Thanks to a handy dandy LLBean Visa card (which we've had for years and love), we redeemed some coupon dollars and bought her this lime green flower patch L.L.Bean Original Book Pack, "a customer favorite for 22 years." We were told it had to be large enough to hold a three-ring binder, so even though it's rated for ages 7 and up 'carrying moderate loads', we'll have to figure out a way to keep it on her small shoulders. An added bonus to this particular pack is that with our particular credit card we also get free monogramming. It took us longer to decide on going with "Ellie," "Elisona," or "EJW" than it took to select the actual pack.

I promise we won't document our trip to the stationary aisle at Wal Mart for her glue sticks and pencils (Nathan just said, "Don't promise that!"). It's just hard to believe our lives will soon be dictated by our daughter's school schedule and that we'll have to do things like sign permission slips for field trips (yes! apparently pre-schoolers take field trips!). She's gonna have so much fun and she should look pretty cute in the process with her lime green pack.