School Shopping - Done

What a relief! Last year I waited too long and I was desperately looking for glue sticks that might have been discarded in the wrong section. It was miserable. I had to go to Target and Wally World to get all the supplies.

On Friday, my father-in-law took the kids. What a blessing. I was able to do the school shopping and finish buying a couple things for the Kirstenator's birthday party this weekend. I was even able to to do some clothes shopping in peace and mostly quiet. I say mostly quiet, because I didn't know how to handle myself and I found myself talking to strangers about nothing and for no reason. I don't think most of them appreciated it, either. You see normally when I go shopping(for anything from tampons, tires, to bread), I have at least one child with me. By default it is usually the Kirstenator and she is either asking A LOT of questions(usually about what I'm buying and it often isn't bread), talking about nothing in particular (at least judging from the first 10 sentences), or whining. None of this takes place in a volume lower than announcements coming over the main speakers. So if I had left my minivan lights ON, I would never know.