yup he's growing up

on our back to school clothes shopping jaunt this weekend I was politely asked to not accompany C into the changing room. Weirdness but he is growing up not to mention he is shopping in the men's department these days so it would be more than a little odd to go into the changing rooms at this point. C does however need to work on the whole coming out in new clothes so I can see how well they fit etc... and I either need a geek phone or more stores need to offer wifi to keep me amused while I wait out side the changing rooms oh and some chairs or a bench might be nice while you're at it folks

tax-free weekend rolls around again

I'm looking to continue my annual rant and once again complain that my son's school does not have class lists posted yet...those will go up next Thursday and the whole tax-free thing well that ends Sunday at midnight. The school did hand out a what they call a supply list & of course it is the most basic and generic list of all lists as it is each and every year. I have gotten pretty good at guessing what the teachers are going to ask for but invariably I do miss a few items and will wind up shopping again for school supplies next weekend. I just do not understand why well first of all why they can't post the information online and secondly why they can't get it to us before tax-free weekend?!

last week of summer

as summer winds down this last week of summer/daycare/camp(yet again whatever you want to call it) they have not had any field trips but yesterday was dress crazy day C obliged and won the trophy for craziest dress a proud moment indeed. Today they are indulging in a little indentured servitude all of the kids can wear bathing suits as they are going to clean the school van & bus and then Friday is the annual end of summer sleepover. Sleep being a loose sort of idea C will be up half the night and be returned to us Saturday morning a little zombie. D & I don't have big plans yet maybe dinner and a movie.

Friday is also meet the teacher day. The school posted info yesterday no no not online on the building and each grade had assigned times to come meet your teacher on Friday. 3rd grade is from 1-2 why thanks so very much, um not all of us are SAHM moms. Oh well I really didn't want to work all day on friday anyway...

There was more complete and specific list of items the boy need supply-wise posted from his teacher. It would be really nice if they could get that sort of thing together before the tax-free weekend and get it out to us parents! I go through this each year. I guessed most of it correctly but we still need to pick up a few more items this weekend.

I was surprised to hear on the radio that the state is already talking about getting rid of the sales tax holiday. I understnad maybe dropping the spring holday but it seems like a suspect choice to do away with the whole concept. It clearly spurred the economy this weekend in TN and if you abolish ours it will just send folks over to neighboring Georgia next summer to take advantage of their tax holiday

coffee pot update

when I arrived home one of the first topics of discussion was the need for a new coffee pot. It is something I have been mulling for some time but had not done anything about as of yet. D proclaimed the Krups broken, did not make enough coffee, it wasn't hot enough-a litany of complaints personally it worked just fine on Saturday morning but who am I to quibble? He had been looking at pots picked one or two and he was going to go buy it but in my opinion the coffee situation is my domain I drink gallons more than he does so I went coffee pot shopping. Having just been at my parents and once again admiring the Cuinsart they have had for many years I decided to go that route. D still felt the need to interject his opinion and called me at the store and in one of those odd we have been married way to long moments he told me to buy the exact model number I happened to have in my hands that I was just about to go pay for.

Good purchase and a great cup of coffee this morning!