school paper

School is starting soon. It’s the time of the year when I have to pull up my organizational bootstraps and prepare for the onslaught of paper that will soon be pouring out of backpacks and onto my kitchen table. I’d like to think that preparing myself for the school paper battle is me being a good and responsible parent, but it is really just self-preservation. If I didn’t handle the paper as it came into the house, you would find me in June quietly weeping under a pile of incomplete field trip …