I haven’t been blogging much lately due to trying to get Munchkin ready for going back to school on Monday. I’ve also been rather miserable as I’ve got one of my wisdom teeth cutting through and its absolute hell. In between running around getting laundry washed and Munchkin’s room in order, I took a trip to the Mall of Georgia with my MIL so that Munchkin could play at the play area and fountain. You have to click on the photos to make them bigger because I took them with my cellphone. As you can see.. people were paying attention to the sign and refrained from ‘atherin in that there area.

Lest you think that the Mall of Georgia is without its own designated areas of fun.. here’s where you can pick someone up if you’re in the market. I think it would be faster, as you could weed out the folks who were taken or otherwise uninterested in being picked up. I was surprised that there weren’t many people in the “pick up” area but I guess it was too hot out there for trolling for a date. Most of the teens and tweens in the mall were too busy being in my way inside the mall and knocking into me with their giant Abercrombie shopping bags. Are those giant paper bags actually necessary? I could easily put half of my closet inside one of those… talk about wasteful! I hate the mall and I hate back to school shopping time.. especially on a Friday evening.
Here is the fruits of our labor.. all that for a Pirates lunchbox at the Disney store. The horrible migraine I received from spending an entire day at the stupid mall was not included in the picture - you can just imagine it along with the overwhelming urge for an alcoholic beverage and the thought of moving to somewhere where the words “Excuse Me” actually make people get out of your way without having to physically move them while glaring at them.

According to the rule book for the new elementary school Munchkin will be attending on Monday.. there is nothing against dress code about wearing or having things with skulls. HOOORAY!! I had already bought him some new running shoes before I found out about the dress code or he would have gotten the cool Airwalk shoes with the skulls that I found at Payless.
We got to meet Munchkin’s Grade 1 teacher and visit his new school on Thursday of last week.. she seems very nice and both the school and the classroom were so clean because of being a brand new school. I’m more than slightly peeved at the new bus schedule though.. the school is less than 2 miles away and we have to be at the bus stop over an HOUR earlier than last year. I am NOT happy about having to be at the bus at 7:20AM — and even less excited about the fact that they moved the bus stop TWO blocks farther away from my house. We’re the only people in this side of the subdivision that are putting their child on the bus.. so I’m assuming its why I will have to walk Munchkin 5 blocks one way to the bus on Monday morning. Regardless.. I’m going to be calling the transportation dept. bright and early to arrange for another stop. Just because the people in this community see it as something of a status symbol to drive their children to school in the morning (really.. I’m not just making broad assumptions here.. I was told that “car riders” are far superiour to “bus riders” and that only “trash” bus their kids) wasting time and gasoline.. is no reason for me to have to drag my poor 6 year old that far in the sweltering Georgia heat.