School prep

School starts in one week! It's a good thing, because the boys are about to kill each other. Blane and Seth spend the majority of their days in separate rooms by my edict.

The other day, we went to Kmart to shop for Seth's backpack (his Superman one tore last year). He had specifically requested a green one. Kmart is not my favorite store, but it is close to our house and I did not have the stomach to drive to Walmart or Target AND do grocery shopping with the boys (remember my rule about only one store with boys if you can help it?)

Fortunately, we found some backpacks that were on sale (that put them within a reasonable price range--can anyone tell me why Kmart seems to have high prices along with their crummy stores?) Seth found a cool-looking green one that looked to have a longer life span than his Superman one last year. Lunchboxes were on sale too, so we took a peek at those. Seth chose a Batman one (yep--on sale too). The lunchbox apparently was trying to impersonate the Dark K. on his own. Except it came out looking squatty and out of shape--it's a lunchbox, after all. It had the Bat logo on its little gray "chest" and its utility belt (the bottom of the lunchbox) unzipped all around so you could slide a cold pack in. The "buckle" of the belt was a little tiny zippered pouch for lunch money. The funniest part was that the thing had it's own little cape on the top that flops over the handle. Scott, Zac and I took bets later how long the cape will last--we decided anywhere from 1 week to 1 month. I don't know what the people at Thermos were thinking. Anyway, it all makes for a cute selling package, which is all they really care about, I suppose.

Seth was pumped up and messed with the lunchbox features for a while. Now it is sitting in his room and waiting to carry his food to school. Woo hah!