School Days...

Well, if you have kids ages 5 and up, you have probably felt the crunch of the final preparations before school starts back for the fall.

It is a full sensory experience…

You can ‘See’ it when you pull into the Mall parking lot and can’t find a place to park. You can see it when you get inside the Mall because, “baby, it is a jungle in there!” And what really makes it wild is this time of year is the ONLY time your kids are willing to be seen in public with you because you have the Green Ones and/or some Plastic!

You can ‘Hear’ it in those one liners that go something like this:

“Mom”, I am not wearing that. Nobody my age wears that!
Why can’t I just have the money and pick out my own clothes!
I’ll wear another shirt under it, I promise. (Rightttttt)

You can ‘Smell’ it, which happens to be one of my favorite parts of the back to school shopping. All those hot fresh Annie Pretzels, Cookie Factory and Pizza, Chinese, Ice Cream, Candy store, etc., ....makes you hungry. Oh, wait a minute. We can’t eat that because we have to fit in a size 0.

You can ‘Taste’ it, too. I suggest you start out with a Grande Latte from Starbucks on your way to the Mall and then have a few more cups as you sit and wait for your darlings to come back from shopping with their friend that they just want to go to one store together with. (Righttttt)

And last but not least ‘Touch’. Yeah, touch those clothes and make sure you like them because you are going to be wearing them for a long time. And we don’t want to hear another word about it!!!

And you know you are getting too old to do this any longer when you are happy to go to Wal-Mart, Kohls, J.C. Penny’s, Sears. That last one will date you!

They like stores that sound like other things. For example…

Abercrombie & Fitch - Sounds like a mummy and a bird friendship
Hollister - Sounds like a good Western to me.
American Eagle Outfitters - Sounds like a Boy Scout group for College kids.
Forever 21 - I know some people that act like they might be stuck there.
Wet Seal - Makes me think of scuba diving equipment
Aeropostale - NASA for sure
TJ Maxx - what else but “Get Smart”

Ok, so I’ve had a little fun with you on this blog. But, seriously, do you as a parent invest this amount of time, energy and resources on equipping your child with the things of God that have eternal value? All the above things will pass away… Eternal things will not. Are you preparing them for eternity?

His,
vickie