Saturday, August 29, 2009

School Daze

I remember being excited about dresses by Grandmother loving sewed and smocked for me to wear. "Home sewn" for my sons means from the local Old Navy or Target.

I remember carrying my Shirt Tales backpack and Holly Hobbie lunchbox proudly.
These days, my kids have to have BPA-free, environmentally friendly, uber-expensive lunch totes - and their backpacks are so big and heavy that they wouldn't be allowed as airline baggage!

And whatever happened to Trapper Keepers? I remember being outraged that they were "outlawed" by the school when I was in about 4th grade...

Remember doing math on a slide rule and an abacus?

Ok, me neither - but we did take typing on actual typewriters and knew little of fancy schmancy graphing calculators, high powered computers, and the internet back then . (That was probably a good thing as I think I got into a lot of trouble on the internet in college!)

I don't ever remember having such lengthy school supply lists as a child as my children do now - but that is probably just because I was a kid and wasn't stressed about the length of the supply list and the amount of dent it is going to place in the parents' pocketbook!

9 comments:

  1. You must be old if you can remember Holly Hobby or had Holly Hobby anything! haha

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  2. You won the Love YA Lunch Labels@ JDaniel4's Mom. I will be contacting you via e-mail for your address.

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  3. Hi Marianna! Thanks so much for your sweet visit! Happy 2010! Have a lovely day! :)

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  4. It is scary kids actually have to wheel their supplies with one of those carryon looking bags with wheels. Yikes!

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  5. Thanks for visiting my blog! Happy Monday!

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  6. Good luck on your new blog! I've signed on to follow! Thanks for you visit! Coralie

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  7. while i didn't work on slide rules. i did learn to type on manual typewriters with no letters. it's the best way.

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  8. Popping by! I see that you are a nurse too! I'm currently a SAHM but was a Transplant Nurse for 12 years.

    Following you through Google.

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  9. Oh man I so had Strawberry Shortcake! LOL

    The list is crazy for school, thankfully Cole's school doesn't allow characters etc so it made shopping easier.

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