Fall (Five Minute Friday)

Time for Five Minute Friday. Where you take a break, and write for 5 minutes flat - just open up and out it comes. Full directions (and how it all got started) over here.  This week's link ups, courtesy of the lovely Lisa-Jo over here.

This week's word: FALL.

School just ended and we're thinking of summer fun and camp and pools and playdates and vacation and the beach. But before we know it, in the blink of an eye, it will be fall.

This year, fall will be a little different for me - my baby starts kindergarten. (WHOOOSH. where did the time go?!) And so, in the mornings, I will walk both my little ladies out the door, ready for new beginnings.  Our school does a really cool thing for school supplies. (OK, I think it is cool. Maybe you think it is overkill. But for busy mamas, or moms of a lot of kids, this is brilliant.) There is a company our school works with. All the teachers log on, select the supplies they want your kids to bring to their class. Someone (I think the PTA) sends home an order form. You go on-line, pick your school, there's a code. You pick your grade. Pick girl or boy (they split up who brings what size zip locs and whatnot) and then you click order. Repeat for all your kids. And voila, at the start of the very first day, your kid gets to school and there's a package on her desk and it has everything she needs.

No standing at Walmart debating over THIS red folder or THAT red folder. No questions about cardboard or plastic. No questions of rubber-free erasers or pre sharpened pencils. So yes, it takes some of the fun out of the choosing what supplies you get, but it saves arguing. It saves poring over multiple lists. It saves sisters saying "there's only one left, it's miiiiiiiine." And it saves THIS mama from being one of THOSE moms ... the ones in line on the very last day of summer, trying to find everything she forgot.

So thank you, thank you, inventor of the one stop school supply shop. You have saved my summer.

Stop.