Hey? there's me! And yes the books are ordered and the fight for finacial aide continues. But I am committed and committ-able if I give up. Hugs arf.
J.

$90 dollars of back to school supplies (folders, binders, paper, pens, pencils, ....oops I forgot the graph paper!!! ) Okay, I'm almost ready. But the rest is bought, and packed into the backpacks and put away in their rooms.

Son has new shoes and socks and a couple new t-shirts (everything else fits and is in good shape), daughter has 2 new shorts, 3 capris (she's never really worn them before), and a single new pair of pants that I need to hem. She's also got new underwear. Her new glasses are ordered and will be ready next week. Son got his haircut, she still needs her's cut.

So graph paper, pick up glasses, hem a pair of pants, and get one hair cut...and I'm done.

On the strictly academic front, he's got his math pack done, both have been watching shows in Spanish over the summer (the foreign language they're both taking) and my daughter has been doing Blue Math(?) over the summer.

In 4 years I retire from school teaching, but for now, yeah, it's coming on! Thanks for saying something. Since PTSD is an anxiety disorder, even though I've been doing this since 1980, I have some social anxiety about being in front of the classroom all eyes on me every time.

Truly, thank you for bringing this up in our safe place. You'd think that after leading classes since 1980 it would be old hat, but the social anxiety needs processing every time, and you made that possible for me here just now. Again, thanks.

School was my escape. Bullies there were escapable, not like the ones at home, and oh, how I dreaded summers! Back to School for me meant Back to Safe Zone. I see the notebooks and get all weirdly happy-nervous to this day. I loved growing up on my mom's family's farm for what that was, but school was somewhere my dad and sis couldn't go and get me. Ahhhh....

So strange how differently we all react to all this, isn't it?

Yeah school was my safety net too Leo. Now it's high school for daughter and jr high for son.... need school clothes.... memo to me; don't forget to buy school clothes!!! Everything else I have. Now I can let my Littles come out and play while my kids are in school and get teased because I'm playing with "baby toys" go figure! He's 13!

I see a lot of school supplies coming out at the stores and summer clothes started clearance last month. School clothes filling them in. I dreaded school, feared it. Mom did her best putting clothes on layaway all summer so we would have stuff for most of the year. I can say i am happy to see summer go. i would love it if i lived by the water. october is just around the corner so i am sure xmas stuff will be out soon. ug.

I still need more notebooks since I write a lot of notes and the math....argh here we go again. I do have a good supply of graph paper though. And yes Muji the social anxiety is a factor big time. I have to explain why I don't cite more in my papers to new professors. What may be history that needs to be looked up I know first hand, so to me it's common knowledge
...oh yeah order more Clairol!!!! hahhah!