10 Back to School Must Have Items

Today I'm linking up with Shay and Erica for Workin' Wednesday, I can't even believe that we are shopping for school supplies. While our school doesn't start for another 3 weeks, we had to do the shopping this past weekend because we're going to be out of town or busy every weekend leading up to the start of school. First day of school is not only going to be a 6 hour day (instead of 3, like Kindergarten), but we'll just be getting back into town the night before from camping. This is the school supply list that Baby Fox's new school sent us.

Ninjago Backpack  / Ninjago Lunch Box / Dry Erase Set / Yellow Highlighter / Glue Sticks / #2 Pencil / Crayola Colored Pencils / Crayola Crayons / Erasers  / Elmer's Glue  / Pencil Sharpener  / Ream of Paper (not pictured)

Things that I used to love as a kid buying for school, pencil boxes, there was nothing better then getting all of your new pencils and erasers and then putting them into a Hello Kitty Pencil Case. Turns out the one I used to have is now considered vintage...man I feel old. But I loved those plastic things.

Okay one last thing as a blast from the past. Trapper Keepers, man those things, and then having the matching pencil case that clipped into the three ring binder, bomb.com. I had one similar to this girl.



Okay getting off topic here. But it's so fun to remember all the stuff I used to love about the beginning of school, new school clothes, picking out what to wear on the first day, new shoes and just the anticipation of a new school year and learning new things. I loved all of it. I really hope Baby Fox loves school as much as I do, from the looks of it, I think it's going to love it.

I put together a video of all of the stuff in Baby Fox's School Supply Haul. If you could click on it and thumbs up the video, that would mean the world to me! Thank you so much for supporting my channel.

Also linking up with Erin for 10th on the 10th and with

What is something that you absolutely loved about the new school year?

Linking up here

Fun Fact Friday

Another Friday is here, yay TGIF!!!! Okay so I have the day off, but for those of you who are working, yay! Weekend is upon us! I'm currently at my parents hanging out with family, and letting Baby Fox get to know his Baby Fox Cousins.Which brings us, lovely readers, another installment of Fun Fact Friday...not sure how many Fun Facts Friday I'll have, but I'll go with it till I don't have any more to say. Of course in list form:

• I still carry a day planner, I know, so 90's right? But I love opening my little day planner and seeing what I have to do for the month. Yep I still use Franklin Covey (is there anything else really?). I've had this same purple day planner for 18 years! Yes that's right, I should be a spokes person for Franklin and how indestructible they are. As you can see I color code it, so at a glance I know exactly what I have to do...dorky I know, but it's worked for me for 14 years, I don't think I adopted the color code until college, you know you're in class bored out of your mind and need something to occupy your time, because class obviously isn't.

•  I met my husband a bar called Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood. He sat in the booth right across from me and my friends. All my friends were talking to someone in his group, we weren't talking to anyone, I walked around my booth to his booth, sat down and introduced myself. That's right, I picked HIM up! We were both dating people at the time (that is a whole other post).

 Picture courtesy of Bareny's Beanery website

• I repeated the second grade. I wasn't failing but school did NOT come easily to me. I don't think I would be where I am today if I didn't repeat second grade, seeing as that math was my hardest subject back then (I could not get the concept of greater than and less than...what?!? You want the alligator to do what?) Fast forward 10 years and my engineering major made me take math classes up to what is equivalent to a Calculus 4. After I repeated second grade, math came easily and I was always a grade ahead in math, thank you parents for that! 

• Speaking of school, I have a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Masters of Science in Systems Engineering.

• Mr. wants me to tell you, that he takes all of my outfit posts, he wants full credit.

Hope you enjoyed this weeks, Fun Fact Friday! Until next time! Have a great weekend!