School Shopping For Nine!

It's that beautiful time of the year that parents either love or hate-I have a little bit of both. I love that my kids have the opportunity to get an education considering so many countries don't. A lot of parents have complained about how long the supply lists have become, but honestly they aren't that bad. I'm not going to lie, some stuff I did question if they really needed it, but I figured teachers know what they're doing and probably need the items. I don't expect teachers to provide for every student considering they barely make enough to live and their budgets aren't that large so they're going to be buying a lot of stuff for their classrooms on their own as it is. With that being said, buying nine kids worth of school supplies was a huge chore. I mean there were nine backpacks, nine lunch boxes, I don't even know how many pencils, 18 boxes of crayons(cause two per kid!), and the list goes on and on. It was fine though, we were able to score some great deals-shout out to Toys R Us, Amazon, Target, and Walmart! Seriously if you haven't done your shopping yet go to Toys R Us for your backpacks, I know weird concept not very natural feeling but you'll thank me later. Their backpacks are buy one and get the lunch box free! I saved hundreds of dollars with this deal over the years, love it. As for supplies, if you need bulk supplies I suggest Amazon-they had some great deals especially with the super specific things we needed(paper folders, number two wooden pencils, rulers, and so on). The only thing that killed my bank account was clothes. Every. Single. Child. Grew over the summer, so we needed a massive clothing shopping spree. Luckily, we do hand me downs so the younger(or shorter in Brooke's case) got clothes for free. However, Tyson and Estella don't have anyone taller than them so we had to go shopping for clothes. We couldn't find their sizes at the thrift store, so they got NEW clothes which never happens! Shout out to H&M for having such awesome deals because Target clothing has gotten less cute and more expensive! So, long story short we are done school shopping. Everyone has some kind of new clothing item, I probably bought more than I should have-but you know what it's not the end of the world! I hope everyone enjoys their first day of school and that this year is good for everyone.