Getting ready for school

By Staff
This week, I have been thinking a lot about shopping. I know many of you think that shopping should be just a part of my nature, but I really don't like it. I really don't know why. I used to love it.
Now, everything the school supplies go on the shelves and clothes go on sale, I think about back to school shopping as a child.
I remember going back to school shopping every year. We'd spend all day looking for the coolest clothes, and getting stocked up on the necessities we'd need for the school year.
While I realize that I had to have gotten clothing at other times during the year, I really don't remember going shopping other than in July or August before school started every year.
I will never forget the year I was going to school for the first time. I was in kindergarten, and I had to have the perfect outfit to wear on the first day.
So my mom took me shopping. I remember turning down every suggestion she made. It's safe to say, we had different tastes. I remember my mom getting angry with me because I was so hard to satisfy because I wanted to look pretty on my first day of kindergarten.
Finally, my dad stepped in. He took me to the girls' department, and told my mom to wait with Robert. I don't remember us looking before long when we found it: The perfect outfit.
It was a purple jumper with a while shirt lined in dark purple. My dad said he loved the outfit, and I guess because I was 'daddy's little girl', I did too.
I remember this outfit well. I wore it every opportunity I got. I even had my pictures made wearing the outfit.
I guess looking back it seems I just didn't like anything my mom picked out because she was the one doing the suggesting, and having the pictures of me wearing that outfit reminds my mom of the time we had buying it.
Shopping with my boys is nothing like that. Jordan likes anything, and if it's a t-shirt and shorts, Cameron is fine.
Now, if we ever have a girl, I might have to pay for the some of those times I tortured my mom in search of the perfect thing to wear.
All I can really say now is 'thank God I'm not that picky any more.'
Happy back to school shopping to you.