Time to go shopping!

Do you have your school supply list yet? Have you found where the best prices are? Have you set aside a budget?

Back to School shopping has always been one of my favorite times of the year! Even when I was a little kid, I loved the smell of school supplies! Since I began teaching, I've loved getting them for my own students. However, this is the first year I'm not quite as excited about it. Landry is starting Kindergarten. I swear her supply list is a million miles long. I suppose it only feels that way because my more-than-ready, too-big-for-her-britches little girl is officially starting school. She's been in Mother's Day Out programs and preschools since she was two years old, but this. This makes it real- She's growing up. Whether I want her to or not!

*** OK, mommy rant over! ***

If you haven't yet picked up or printed out your school supplies list for 2nd grade, you can grab it here.





2nd Grade School Supplies

I plan on doing plenty of price comparisons {even though I'm pretty sure I already know where the best prices will be}... I'll make a note of anything really great I find on here.

I'm definitely working with a super-tight budget this year. Both kiddos starting school, supplies for my own classroom, and not to mention school clothes and shoes. Oy!!! Baby steps! Buy a little at a time. I don't want my wallet (or my husband!) to flip out! We will make it fun though! I can't let something I love doing so much become a burden! Maybe make a game out of it? How about we get the backpacks and lunch boxes first? Then on our next trip, we will only buy the things that will fit in our bags. After that, the big jumbo things: like a million boxes of Kleenex and 10,000 bottles of Germ-X! Depending on sales, we might hold out for school clothes until the very end. It's not like they need an entirely new wardrobe all at once. They still have clothes to wear. Not to mention, since we live in an area that feels like it's next door to the sun, they can probably wear their summer clothes until December. Shoes are a must. Their sweet little feet grow so much and so fast, I don't know how their little piggies haven't popped out of them yet! Thank goodness for Crocs and flip flops!

Check out THIS post I wrote last year as I was school shopping!