Random Tuesday Thoughts. Now with vibrant colors!

My hair is this bizarre and completely unnatural deep reddish purple.  I decided to dye it because I noticed a grey hair wanted a new color and it didn’t come out like the picture on the box.  I went with ‘Spicy Auburn Brown’ since it looked just like my natural color, with slight hints of red. 

I’m so spicy.

Side note- I totally need better screen capture software.  I first tried to right click and save the image, but it was doing that thing where it blows up to show detail when you scroll over it.  So then I did a screen cap, but had issues getting it to crop down to just the section of hair color.

Aaron didn’t even notice my hair until Lili randomly asked me why I picked the color.  Men are so observant.

Speaking of men- if you mentioned grills to any of the males in your family, would they think of:

In other news, school starts this week.  My girls will be attending a different school than before due to the fact we moved on base.  Lili’s a little wary, so I told her if she hates it, she can go back to the old school next year, but she’s got to do a full year.  I’m sure she’ll be fine though.

They’ll be walking instead of taking the bus this year, so they were trying to convince me to buy them the backpacks with wheels.  But then we got their supply lists and it specifically said no wheeled backpacks.  The list also requested solid folders/notebooks/etc.  No patterns or characters.  The girls were a little bummed, however I like this policy.  Instead of paying $2 for the Justin Bieber folder that Lili wanted, I paid $.17 for a solid purple one.  I ended up paying half of what supplies cost me last year.  Score!

I was looking for a photo and came across this one that B. took while I was in NY of my hair before the dye. Ryan was stealing my coffee, as usual. I may or may not have a slight addiction to Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee. Sometimes when I get one, I buy the boys their old fashioned donuts, so now every time I go through the drive thru, the boys yell 'YAY!' and clap.

That same day at the park, I took a cute video with my phone, but I can’t get it to email or upload anywhere to share it.  I wish I could at least  do a video screen capture from it- there’s one point where Dylan makes the funniest face.  I do have this photo of Dylan from that day- after he face planted off of the swings.
I can’t believe summer is pretty much over.  There are so many things I’d wanted to do with the kids that we never got around to!


School Supply Lists

I totally understand that kids need to bring their own supplies, and I have no issues with sending pencils, paper, crayons, etc in on the first day like always.  However, I swear each year the lists get longer, and they want more of each thing.  And then… usually at least two-three more times through out the year, we get notes home saying the classroom is running low on glue or tissues or something, and could we please send more in.

I’ve been scouting out local stores like Walmart- they always carry each school’s shopping lists.  I’ve had no luck finding our elementary school until tonight- when I came across the lists on the school’s website when I was working on my weekly Macaroni Kid newsletter.

Kindergarten

  • 1 Backpack
  • 1 Pair of Scissors
  • 1 Full Set of Clothes in a Labeled Ziploc Bag
  • 1 Container of Liquid Soap
  • 4 Boxes of Tissues
  • 1 Box Fine Point Markers
  • 1 Box of Wide Point Markers
  • 4 Pkg. Crayola-Brand Crayons
  • 1 Box of #2 Pencils
  • 1 Gallon Size Ziploc Bags
  • 2 Plastic/Vinyl 3-Hole Punched Pocket Folders
  • 1 Composition Notebook
  • 24 Glue sticks
  • 1 Bottle of Elmer’s White Glue
  • 1 Pint Size Ziploc Bags

Here’s Mia’s list.  First of all, I am hoping they mean 2 – 4 glue sticks, because I am NOT buying 24 of them!  Secondly, I hate when they don’t say how MANY crayons- do they want the 8 pack, 24 pack, what?  They always want Ziploc bags as well, and I always wonder what for, since I never see bags used for anything.  And four boxes of tissues?  We go through about that  many a year for our whole house, and if each kid is bringing four… where do they store this crap?  I’d think ONE box per kid should be sufficient.

3rd Grade

  • 7 dozen wooden pencils (NO mechanical pencils)
  • 2 24-Pack Crayons
  • 1 Pair of Scissors
  • 3 inch Binder with Clear View Cover
  • 1 inch Binder
  • Quart Size Plastic Baggies (Boys)
  • Gallon Size Plastic Baggies (Girls)
  • 1 Sturdy Plastic Folder
  • 3 Packs of Wide Rule Paper
  • 3 hole Punched Pencil Pouch with a Zipper/Velcro (NO Boxes)
  • 2 jumbo glue Sticks
  • 2 yellow highlighters
  • 1 Bottle of GermX
  • 1 Ream of White Copy Paper
  • 1 USB/Thumb/Flash Drive (256 mb minimum)
  • 1 Box of Kleenex

Ahh one box of tissues… whew.  And only two glue sticks, nice.  But SEVEN dozen pencils?  Is my kid going to go through 84 pencils in one school year?  I’m glad they let us know what count crayon box to get as well.  And the thumb drive- man, third grade is getting high tech!

So what is on your kids’ back to school shopping lists?