| Remember the days when you were anxiously | | | | exciting. You could spend hours trying to determine if |
| awaiting the first day of school. You couldn’t wait | | | | you had the correct spiral notebook, or if you got the |
| to go to the store and purchase your elementary | | | | right shade of crayons. The school supply aisle was |
| school supplies. You looked at the list with eager | | | | always crowded and you usually found a friend or |
| anticipation. You were so full of hope of the things | | | | two there doing the same thing you were. You knew |
| you might learn that year. You always seemed to | | | | that soon sleeping late was going to be limited to |
| feel so special with your elementary school supplies in | | | | Saturdays and Sundays. |
| tow. The list always included scissors, glue, markers | | | | It made me feel grown up when I went from the wide |
| and “Big Chief Tablet”. Then there were the | | | | ruled paper to regular notebook paper. I didn’t feel |
| optional items such as Kleenex. It always made me | | | | like such a kid anymore. I always wanted to get off |
| wonder, if we went through that many boxes of tissue | | | | on the right foot at school and I thought that having just |
| in one school year, or the teacher and some serious | | | | the right supplies would put me one step closer to an |
| sinus problems. You always had to compare the | | | | A. Things were a bit different in middle school and |
| items you brought to school to make sure that they | | | | high school when the cool thing was to come to |
| were cool enough, but not too different to draw | | | | school so unprepared. You wanted to look like you |
| attention to yourself. Everyone wants to feel special, | | | | were having so much fun doing other things that you |
| but not different. | | | | forgot to get ready for school. When you are young, |
| These days, many schools have gotten smart and | | | | you can’t wait for summer because that meant |
| combine school supplies with elementary school | | | | many, many days of sleeping in and no homework. It |
| fundraising. They work with a company that will | | | | didn’t take long to realize that you really missed |
| provide all the needed supplies and the schools offers | | | | your friends and you actually missed school. |
| a complete school supplies package as a school | | | | Once that elementary school supplies list gets |
| fundraiser. | | | | published, you are only a few short weeks from |
| But not all schools do that which leaves families | | | | seeing your friends again. You can all compare notes |
| searching for their supplies. | | | | about what everyone did over the summer, and |
| Going to the grocery store with your mom to | | | | before long, you will be ready for summer again. |
| purchase your elementary school supplies was always | | | | |