Last year I shopped with my niece and sister for 1st grade school supplies.  My mom, sister, and I are all teachers, so we love back-to-school time.  But that experience wasn’t at all what I expected it would be.  My niece tends to be type A and on top of that, it was 1st grade, so she was super apprehensive.  We went to THREE stores – plus my sister ordered some things from Amazon and made another stop looking for exactly everything on her list, and my niece was in tears worrying it wouldn’t be right. She’s in FIRST GRADE. She has eleven more … [Read more...]