Back To School Again!

It's been busy around my house for the past few weeks! I have been working on getting my eldest back to school for his eighth grade year.

Bregon is getting so very old! I cannot believe that he will be 14 in November!

This year, he is in the 8th grade and I completely need to catch up on everything and try to keep up!

I thought I had a routine and that I knew what to do. Boy was I wrong on that account!

I started watching the adds so that I could catch his school clothes on sale.

I did manage to get his annual set of jeans at the right price, somehow! But, I managed to NOT obtain other important things like a new backpack!

Somehow we got our communications crossed, and I was under the impression that he was going to use his trusty rusty backpack from a few years ago that had been doing so well...(or so I had thought!)

As luck would have it, and in typical nearly 14-year old fashion, my child waits until the Thursday before school starts to inform me that the trusty rusty backpack is being decommissioned for this year due to a small tear in the pencil pouch compartment.

We wouldn't want to lose even a pen top, now would we? So it was off to the store with us, triplets and stroller with a flat tire in tow.

We did manage to find some big-kid shirts (non-t-shirts) while we were out, and several other things as well that somehow passed approval of my teen.

Miraculously, he managed to find and locate the perfect backpack without much trouble.

It is huge, can somehow fit the entire extensive list of school supplies inside, and still has room to spare.

It's also very orange, but hey, we can't win em all, now can we? I'm just grateful not to have had to run all over town to try and find it!

It's day four of school, and somehow we have managed to get by this week so far!

The new backpack is holding up famously, the clothes are all good, and the classes have been approved of.

Somehow, my child even landed one of my old teachers, God help her! I must have had her the first year she taught, too, after reading her profile on her website!

Hopefully this year will be a good one. Bregon is all on cloud nine, being in the 8the grade and all, and having managed to land all of the classes he wanted to have for once!