Don't you just LOVE the smell of brand new crayons? I love to just open the box and sniff. I am sure to the outside world, I look like I am snorting something else, but I love new crayon smell.
I also love the look of new school clothes. They rock! Freshly pressed, not yet stained from the latest lunch special.
I can remember trying them on like a million times before the first day of school. I even did fashion shows for my dad. I would model them around the house like I was so cool. I am sure my dad was thinking, "yeah, whatever... that's a pink skirt...woohoo" but I thought I was the coolest!
And don't even get my started on the new backpack...pencils, erasers, and such. Oh and the big chief notepad. If you are too young to remember the big chief notepad, you are really missing out! That thing always made me feel so grown up, walking in with my new pink skirt, my freshly sniffed crayons, and my big chief notepad. I was the bomb baby!
I think that is why I am a sucker even now for the school supply section of major department stores.
And thinking back, I can remember just how excited, but tremendously nervous I was to be there that first day. My mom worked in the school district, I knew all the teachers and they knew me... but I would still pray that the first day of school I wouldn't have to speak, for fear of my newly eaten breakfast being tossed as soon as I opened my mouth!
There is nothing like that feeling on the first day of school. Nothing...
So, let's raise a glass of Kool-aid to the kids...the ones who are headed to school this next week and those unfortunate souls who have already begun.
You, my friends, are fearfully and wonderfully made by God. Remember that! Learn a lot because you are our future and really, our present.
Don't let us down... and sniff a few crayons, just for the heck of it!
