It's Been A Busy Two Days!!!!!!!!

Monday:
   Monday I had Charli and Tehya and Autumn here. Charl left about 2:30 p.m. Autumn had to leave at 1:00 p.m. to go swimming with a friend,  and get ready for Cheer Camp in the evening. That left Tehya and Me, and Grandpa. So armed with Tehya's school supply list we headed to Dollar General to get some of her school supplies.  Grandpa probably took a nap! Haha! We started buying the three girl's their school supplies a few years ago, just to help out their parents. Wow, some of the things on the list are just ridiculous, and they aren't cheap any more. It costs a lot of $ for school supplies now. With everything they have to have, along with the community supplies, it costs us between $45.00 and $65.00 every year times three for us. It is only going to get worse if the school levy doesn't pass this year! The community supplies are disinfecting wipes, tissues, Ziploc bags, hand sanitizer, etc... I wonder how much of the other stuff ends up being community? Like they each have to have 48 pencils! I might have used that many the whole school year in high school. I  don't understand why they need that many pencils at the beginning of the school year, unless they are expected to share them. Fourth graders now need ear buds also, for the computer time they get. Some of the teachers are down right picky about the things on the list. Only a certain kind of stuff will do. Only plastic folders, with brads and pockets in red, blue, green, and yellow only. A protractor, in clear only, no colors! That was really hard to find! Then a calculator, Texas Instruments brand, T I-34 II for a 7th grader, we couldn't find that specific one, so we didn't get one! We went to Wal Mart and got the rest of Tehya's supplies, and all of Autumn's supplies today, except the calculator! Why do they need 4 - 3 ring 2 inch binders, plus 50 clear sheet protectors, and 30 dividers, per child in 7th grade? Those 4, 3 ring  2 inch binders are $5.97 EACH! Just plain solid colors, not even fancy ones, which are even more a $ a piece! Needless to say I'm a little ticked about all this extra stuff !! Don't get me wrong, we'd do anything we could to help our Grand Daughters, and we do, and it's not their fault the schools say they need all this stuff. Thank goodness their other Grandma buys their book bags and lunch boxes every year! I haven't even seen Kara's list yet, so we still have to get her supplies! If we had to do it all we'd be broke! Then after all that expense, they have school pictures taken a couple of weeks after school starts! They are so expensive too, for $20.00 you usually only get 4 of the 3 X 4 pictures and about 6 wallet size pictures. Sorry, I didn't mean to go on a rant, but this is getting so ridiculous!!!! Okay, I need to take a big breath and release it and let the stress go. Lol! It might go quicker with a couple of glasses of wine! Haha! 

Well that is about all I can write today, I think it has rained about 8 of the last 12 days, we had a real downpour while the girls and I were out shopping. Thank goodness it had stopped and the sun was out for a bit when we were ready to leave. As soon as you walked out of the store though, the humidity smacked you right in the face. I think it was actually more humid after the rain than before. Okay it's time for me to fix dinner so I'll get this posted, and I'll see ya's ...