And the worst part is we aren’t even done

So.

What’s worse than the fact that school starts on Thursday?

The fact that both Blake and Logan are horribly ill and I can’t seem to get their fevers to stay down.

Buttttttt…. a few notches before the fevers on the Scale of Worsness is that each and every single fucking crayon, pencil, pencil crayon, marker and book must be individually labeled with names.

And every single year we forget that – I think it is like childbirth, your body isn’t designed to handle that amount of pain and erases it from your memory, so we forget the labeling process that takes hours and hours and hours and buy the jumbo pack of markers with 45 instead of the pack with 12. And we buy the super size pencil crayons with 60 because look! They are already sharpened!

So in between dosing the boys with Tylenol and reassuring Blake  he will be fine by the first day of school (because he is terrified he will be too sick to go) we labeled and labeled and then labeled some more.

In other news, the removal of stitches went fine, so long as your definition of fine is “OMG GET SHARPER SCISSORS AND STOP PULLING LIKE THAT” Or “Oh hey, instead of mild discomfort, now my knee is ON FUCKING FIRE”

So yeah.

(I totally considered double spacing this post to make it look longer, like I used to do with reports in high school) (In the end I didn’t)(Did you notice?)(OK, I admit, that bit in the beginning was all one paragraph. I added the spaces there)(I couldn’t help my self!!)

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Comments: 9

  1. Back to school shopping for me this year was assisting my nephew in searching for the best used book deals for his first semester of college. Who knew spending my brother’s money would be so much fun? Best part – no labeling!

    Sending cyber chicken soup to the sick kiddos…

    Comment by Peggy - August 26, 2009 12:53 am

  2. Labeling everything? I mean, I guess I understand to a degree, but… c’mon! Each crayon? Geeeeeez.
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    Comment by Sheila - August 26, 2009 1:11 am

  3. Oh good God! Label every damn thing??? Um…. no. I would have to just buy one of those electronic labeler’s and stick stickers to everything instead.
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    Comment by Blondefabulous - August 26, 2009 6:00 am

  4. Yeah, I agree with Sheila that labeling everything is crazy. At the other extreme, we don’t have to label anything. All supplies go into one big pool and all are used by all students in the class. For example, the crayons from a couple of boxes are put into disposable cups and one is set at each cluster of desks for all the kids at that cluster to use. The only things the kids keep at their desks are a small supply box (for what, I don’t know) and their back packs. They do this in grades K-4 at our school.

    Comment by Blogarita - August 26, 2009 6:06 am

  5. you mommy bloggers love giving me new reasons to add to my list to not have babies.
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    Comment by robin - August 26, 2009 8:39 am

  6. As long as you have your shit straight for Flogging Molly, we’re good.
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    Comment by Gwen - August 26, 2009 9:52 am

  7. OMFG. Labeling to the extreme. Tell me you have a labelmaker!
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    Comment by Lexi - August 26, 2009 10:51 am

  8. Do this RIGHT NOW: go to one of those cheap label sites (e.g. currentlabels.com) and get some rolls of the cheapest labels they make with just your last name on them or 1 roll with each boys’ name as the only thing on it.

    Put them with your *really important things* that you always know where they are (like, oh, say, the coffee pot and filters) and have them for next year. Write it on next years’ calendar on the August page.

    Are those schools anal or what?! Do you have to label each child as well every day????! Do they make you Sharpie their names across their foreheads?! Man, when we were in Catholic school, my Mom (a bona fide heathen) always laughed at how prissy the nuns were about stuff like the kids actually *gasp!* sitting on the radiators in the classroom. She would FALL OVER at all this labelling!
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    Comment by phinz - August 26, 2009 5:23 pm

  9. Similar to what phinz just said…. I used to buy those labels for the computer that are for the return address… (80 per sheet) and fire up Word… then add some geeky little graphic that I let the kid pick out… and then just wrap, wrap, wrap. It goes like 643 times faster that way and if you buy the staples brand or the ones at dollarama it’s dirt cheap anyway.

    2/3 done school and #3 too old for that, I buy the supplies, hand the bag to him and he unpacks everything, labels everything himself and it’s so freaking much better to have older kids…

    well… in some ways. In others, give me the young ‘uns back.
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    Comment by fracas - August 26, 2009 8:11 pm

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