Carrie Gets Set

Tuesday Carrie returned to nursery school. She was excited about her first day back.  Pearl has one week left of summer vacation.

Getting Carrie ready required efforts from the whole family.  She needed different supplies because she's in the toddler classroom now. She has no interest in choosing her own clothes, but she insisted on the exact shoes that she would wear.

Carrie's teacher and her best friend (Max, but she calls him MACK) moved up with her.  This has made her transition nearly invisible.

One of my strongest memories from the my childhood first days of school revolves around book satchels.  Does anyone else remember the poor outdated book satchel? Way before backpacks or these new things on wheels?  I spent a long time each year considering the book satchels and making sure that I selected the one that represented what would surely be the NEW me.  Because I always sensed  a newer me in the near future.

I couldn't find a picture of the bag that I remember on Google images, believe it or not.  The book satchel may well reside in defunct object heaven right beside the 8 track tape player. 

Defunct object heaven--sounds like a fun field trip, doesn't it?

Comments

[valerie]

I think I remember the type of satchel you are talking about. The one I remember from when I was a kid was red and yellow. It makes me smile to think of it.

This is the closest thing that I could find to what I remember: http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-RETURN-of-the-JEDI-Book-Bag-Satchel-NWT_W0QQitemZ110161104261QQihZ001QQcategoryZ37889QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

[Barbara]

Thanks for visiting me at my Lakeside Lair and your kind words about my mom.