Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

This is a quote that I’ve always loved from the movie, You’ve Got Mail.
I think about it this time of year when I see mothers and children in the back to school aisle.
I see them with their lists.
I see them with their shopping carts and I remember.

I remember the days of taking my five children to go school supply shopping.
I would literally designate a corner of the shopping cart for each child.
There was also a pile in the middle of the cart as well.
I could easily tell you what pile was for each child based on their choices.

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We rent the same house each summer in the Outer Banks.
The house has eight bedrooms, to accommodate our large family.
It is three houses away from the beach.
It has its own pool.

We have two large tents that we bring with us to set up on the beach.
One daughter-in-love makes a schedule for setting up and taking down the tents each day.
That way no one has to do it all the time.
Two people get up early and set up the tents for the rest of the day.

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I am expecting a package.
My husband is expecting a package as well.
We both got a notification that our packages were delivered yesterday.
We were both told that our packages were delivered in or around our mailbox.

Neither package arrived.
We went out to the mailbox.
There was nothing to be found inside or around it.
We looked at each of our doors and near our garage.

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