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No one has ever accused me of being a perfect parent. I
think we as parents all try to do our best, but at times regardless of
how well we do, we still end up failing in ways. Certainly this must be
one of those things that falls into the category of "we are only human,"
but still, I cannot help but wonder how to improve on those occasional
"failures" on a pretty frequent basis.
One of my "failures," if it even qualifies for that, as a parent is my
lack of planning when it comes to school supplies. As minime is much
older now and will be entering college soon, it seems the older she got,
the less supplies she required for school. Yeah! As lucky as this is on
my pocketbook, I still have to get her the basic pens, paper, pencils,
notebooks, you know...the general stuff. Most of which typically seems
to take a temporary home here from the end of school last year to the
beginning this year, so I do not tend to plan in advance for the school
supply purchase each year.
With this in mind, you would think that I would have learned or know
better that there is one supply that can be found as frequently as Big
Foot or Nessie. This supply that taunts me and that either the stores
tend to not stock enough of or that it is such a hot commodity that it
runs out faster than they can keep up with it. What supply is that you
ask? Well, it is known as notebook paper- my nemesis.
Really, how hard is it to find college-ruled notebook paper in the
tri-parish area? So hard that though we do not go to Ascension Parish
schools, I have had to go out to Prairieville to actually find notebook
paper before because other stores in the Baton Rouge area did not have
it. And I'm not talking about just the big box stores- even smaller
stores like the dollar stores and the drug stores did not have notebook
paper.
It got to the point that we could not find paper around town, and in my
frustration I told minime that she might just have to get plain printer
paper and draw light blue lines on it until we could find some. Luckily
after driving around what seemed like all day, we were able to secure a
couple of packs of paper, but I am still on the hunt for more, because
what happens next month when she runs out?
So I wonder am I the only parent due to my potential lack of extreme
advanced planning that is unable to find notebook paper in the area?
Have you experienced this as well? Or is college-ruled notebook paper
just a torturing device to parents from teachers, a sort of revenge for
us sending our unruly children to torture them for eight hours a day?
Could notebook paper be a fantasy like a unicorn or a Smurf?
Am I supposed to buy looseleaf notebook paper in advance for the next
year? What happens if I do and then they switch from college-ruled to
wide-ruled, then what do I do? Am I supposed to pawn the paper (it might
be valuable it seems!) or sell it on eBay?
Or is there a secret black market of notebook paper? I just want to know
what is the secret to finding notebook paper that I do not have to run
around town trying to find it like a group of high-schoolers on a
scavenger hunt?
If you have any helpful suggestions or tips on my notebook paper
dilemma, please feel free to email me.
In the meanwhile, I will continue my notebook paper search as the first
rush of parents ascending on stores for it has died down tremendously,
at least in our area of the country.
Would you not agree that it would also be nice if there was some website
you could go to where people could report where supplies were out of
stock? Sort of a self-reporting website like the ones where those people
email in a report of the current the cheap gas prices. There's an idea
for anyone who has the talent and time for it. I know it would be
appreciated by many parents for sure!
Maybe with your help I will have better luck next year!
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