hiro was fine yesterday morning. very healthy, no fever. as testament as to how bad he looked on tuesday, the teacher on the morning bus was SHOCKED that hiro was ready for school and the first out the door. SHOCKED, i tell you. but yeah, i even took his temperature (we don't have to do that for this kindy) and it was 36.6C. so off to school he went. tommy is still a bit snotty with a cough, but no fevers for him.
tommy keeps saying, 'i'm not ready for school.' which at first, i thought he meant he didn't want to go. but then the other day he said to me, 'i don't have a bag so i'm not ready for school.' which i thought was cute and funny. tommy will be using hiro's 'rucksack', which is their grey bag they buy for school and is quite expensive. it's not pristine, but it still works so that should be fine. we are supposed to go to the school on the 22nd, presumably for an orientation and to get their school supplies and uniforms. then perhaps tommy will feel ready for school.
i need to get on my game and sew a few things up for the kids. hiro needs several bags and though they don't HAVE to be homemade, i want to try my hand at them. i also want to make a bento bag for tommy because the one i made for hiro, though still nice, is getting old and tommy needs *something* new. although, i did get him a new bento and chopsticks. and i'll be getting him his own thermos. but yeah, gotta dust off my sewing machine!
November 19, 2024
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so soon you'll have all kids out of the house too :) yay. Good luck with the sewing.
I'm not sure what kind of bags you need for your elementary vs what he used at kindy, but most of the moms around here just use the old kindy bags until they wear out, even if they are baby-ish. The only new thing most of the moms around here made/buy is the cover for the...what is that thing called?...the head cover thing they use in an earthquake but sit on most of the time. I made some new stuff because I had material and the time and wanted to do it, but in a pinch you can probably get away with the kindy bags if you don't get to it.
When they hit J.H. and up it costs big money..those backpacks are like 3man. Unreal the prep costs!!
thanks GW! :D
sherry, the kindy only had two required bags, which we bought from the school. one is the rucksack, which i mentioned in this post and is about 7,000 to 8,000 yen. kinda expensive with everything else we have to buy. it's also quite small, so can't be used in place of a randoseru. here's a picture of sahsa and her rucksack (which we have converted): http://www.flickr.com/photos/illahee/4519877465/in/set-72157623152886773/ the other bag is basically the same size as the library 'ehon' book bag, but it's made of nylon and would very obviously be different from everyone else's, especially because no one from his yochien will be going to his elementary school. so, i have to make a clothes bag (for carrying P.E. clothes, i think), a library bag (big enough for a picture book), a little bag for the lunch time mask and a shoes bag (one of the most awesome thing about our yochien is they don't wear shoes in the school). granted, i can buy these bags, i even saw them in sets of three (ehon bag, clothes bag, shoes bag) but none of them were cute enough for me to want them and i do need to get back into the swing of sewing!
christ, thanks for the comment! i actually spent that much for hiro's school bag, the dreaded (by me) randoseru. fingers crossed my son won't destroy it and he can use it for six years. bwahahahaha!
oh, correction to my previous comment: the rucksack isn't that expensive, about half that price.
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