School starts today…
Which meant that yesterday involved a frantic scramble to organize the massive pile of school supplies that the kids and I threw into an overflowing cart at Target last weekend.

What $330 looks like
Our kids’ school pools supplies, so all of the crayons, markers, etc. go into a communal stash. This takes some of the pressure off of deciding which cartoon character notebook gets purchased, but still. Last weekend in the school supply section of Target, the struggle was real. At least three moms made a dive for the lone yellow plastic folder at the end of the aisle. It wasn’t pretty.
At the end of last year, I also basically gave up on preparing the kids’ lunches.
Forget this:
I could barely muster up this:
This year I’m determined to do better and I’m referencing this list of school lunch ideas from Food.com.
At least for the first week of classes…

First day from three years ago. They were so tiny! Sniff.