Pre School Year Rituals

School days, school daze...

OMG! Do you people realize that my BABY is mere weeks away from beginning her formal public education?! Kindergarten looms large in our not-too-distant future.

Sweetie actually seems rather unfazed by all this. She knows she's going to Kindergarten. She seems excited. But at the same time she's still a rather "in the moment" little girl who doesn't spend much, if any, time wondering or worrying about things that will happen at some future time.

For me, though - well, I'm remembering my own grade school days. Specifically speaking, the summer days leading up to the beginning of the school year. More specifically - school clothes shopping with my mom and brothers. Every single year. Quite the event!

I'm thinking of these days because I'm now receiving catalog after catalog of the cutest little sassy girls school wear you ever did see. Great deals! Snazzy outfits! Cool name brands! The works!

This is all great if you're a kid. I know it certainly was fun to clothes shop for school when I was little. But now, as the mom? Uhhh... not so much.

First of all, there's the lack of money thing - thanks, in large part, to the lack of employment thing. Secondly, there's my body's inability to withstand several hours of powerhouse shopping. Especially with a still young Sweetie. And especially NOT with a helpful Hubby around. Oh, he'd go if I insisted, alright. But I'm certain that shopping for cute little girls clothing is not even on his top 25 list of Great Things To Do.

Fortunately, Sweetie is young and inexperienced in the area of shopping. Rather, she is experienced enough to know that, as a general rule, our family doesn't clothes shop on a regular basis. If anything, I'll bring home one or two items from Target to simply add to her waredrobe. Her involvement in the whole process is small to nil at best.

So I think, at least this year, we can get by with no pre-school clothes shopping. But come next year? After Sweetie has made lots of new friends and realized many new things about what "most' families do? THEN I may find it more difficult to fend off the trip to the mall.

Fiddle de dee. I'll think about all that tomorrow...