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Back-to-school shopping this year involved exactly three stores: Office Depot, Target and Chico’s.

I wasn’t feeling the love of going up and down and around and around in the school supply section of Target only to find it was out of Classic Crayola markers with the only ones in stock being tropical neon colors with nuclear banana yellow, so I hit the Internet with the search “online school supply shopping” and discovered Office Depot had that shit handled. Fiskar 5th grade scissors, assorted colors construction paper (12×18), 5-Star notebooks and black ballpoint pens in packs of 12.

Free delivery, too? Done and done.

Super Target will see me for clothes, though. I hate the mall, I’m no longer of the French boutique milieu, and it’s so easy to run into Target throwing six t-shirts at a time into the shopping cart next to the Mike’s hard lemonade and frozen waffles while tossing in a few packs of boys’ boxer briefs on the way to the register. Grabbing a bag or two of oranges from the produce section makes that a good trip.

Chico’s: I can thank my mother-in-law for saving Jordan from those low-waisted teen jeans that fall off Jordan’s non-skinny butt every few steps. The size zero demin crops are the perfect fit without looking like mom jeans and with Q’s yearly contribution of school shoes, my buttercup will enter 10th grade looking quite the junior fashionista. Q and Nana figured out either I don’t have the best taste in kids’ clothing or I don’t have time to make good choices. They’ve rescued all three of my children from the vagabond look, and they all look so cute. Annual first day of school pictures coming next week.

Have you been thinking about the posts you’re going to enter in the upcoming prize lovelinks? You can enter up to two each week for a total of six, which might be a little tricky since I’m limiting the total entries each week to 100. Can you imagine a lovelinks week with 100 entries? Neither can I unless I’m dreaming big, but you never know.

I’m slowly but surely recruiting the panel of bloggers who will judge the final week and choose the winner. I want five judges, I have two three. I’ll start twisting arms next week.

Lovelinks #19 is open for submissions... voting


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