Well, it's that time of the year again. School clothes shopping!

[Lyric]

We got OktoberKid's school clothing vouchers in the mail a few days ago, so now we need to find a ride to the store so we can buy his school clothes before they've been picked over too much. He's at the "default kid" size--the one between 8/10 and 10/12 that seems to last for three years, and it's HARD to find clothes in his size when every other Mom out there is looking for the same sizes that I am. This is even more of an issue with shoes.

I'm a bit surprised that the vouchers are still the same amount that they have been for the past few years, though. $200 for each kid. With prices going up, you'd think they'd have adjusted a bit for inflation. Ah well--hopefully everyone will be having really awesome sales. *fingers crossed*

Anybody relatively local with a car wanna come go school clothes shopping with us? :hug:

We just got his supply list, too.

3rd Grade:
Crayons
Scissors and glue sticks
1 double-sided pocket folder
Spiral notebook
Wide-ruled loose leaf paper
Pencils and zipper pouch
Pencil sharpener
1 box Ziplock bags (gallon-sized)
Hand sanitizer
Box of tissues

Have you gotten your kids' supply lists yet?

[eyesroll]

1. We got ours with the report card and other stuff on the last day of school.

It's about 15-20 items long, mostly the usual stuff, with way too much precision ("preferably" ticonderoga pencils, for instance...who cares? She's in first grade).

I am not sure what "Two (2) Boxes of Snack" means. (That was the extent of the instruction on that one.) Since when is "Snack" a stand-alone, articleless word like that? Plus, the list did not specify quantity, nutrition requirements, nut-free requirements or anything. It's supposed to go into the community pile and be used for the whole class...can "snack" be a big vat of pretzels, or must it be a box of individually wrapped something-or-others?

[Lyric]

2. If I were you, I'd go with

fruit juice gummies and one of those multi-pack boxes of Goldfish crackers. Those are always big hits with the kidlets.