School is in the Air

Posted by Lorren on July 31, 2010

School is just around the corner, although we won’t be starting in our house for another month yet. Others around me are starting though. Some in my area have already started. Seems a little crazy and early to me… that’s why we’re not starting until after labor day.

All the great deals on school supplies are on. Yesterday, I finally got around to inventorying all our school and office supplies. I bought so many pencils for cheap last year, I didn’t need any. I didn’t need pens either. I had plenty of mechanical pencils too (the pens and mechanical pencils are for me and dh; dd uses pencils). I still had four boxes of crayons from last year; dd isn’t using crayons as much as she used to, and ds was still not using too many last year. So what I really needed was markers, a couple rulers, college ruled 1-subject notebooks (for me), and colored pencils. I could use a few more crayons and a few file folders too.

So I went shopping for school and office supplies for the upcoming year. Wal-Mart had a great deal on 1″ notebooks; our choir needed some, so I picked up 10. The aisles were busy with parents getting supplies for their kids.

Today, I had to go register dd for soccer. There were tons of other sports teams registering today too. As I pulled up, I saw a crowd of kids in football gear standing outside.

Getting ready for another school year and registering dd for soccer, watching all the other parents registering their kids for sports and buying school supplies, struck me as odd. On one hand, the country is going to hell in a hand basket. The people that want to see this country destroyed are in power. The prophecies regarding the last days are lining up to be fulfilled. Yet we are all buying school supplies and signing up our kids for sports like nothing is going on.

I guess you have to do that. There’s not much else you can do. It just seems a little weird planning for the future when it might not even arrive.