Stretchy Covers, Paper Bags and Debit Logs

Soren needs book covers. And he needs them by Friday. Or he'll get - pause - a debit.

You know those stretchy book covers that were on sale back in July? Well I knew about them and I dutifully purchased the two required by Soren's school (along with the gazillion other items that were on the supply list). He needed two. Just two. But on Wednesday, it was upgraded to five. What?!

"No problem," Soren said. "The teacher said to bring in wrapping paper and we can use that to cover the books."

I said, "Don't kids cover their books with paper bags anymore? When I was a kid, decorating them was so much fun and. . ."

"Mom, please."

Okey doke. Wrapping paper it is. Problem solved.

Guess who forgot to take the wrapping paper with him? And guess who delivered a roll of wrapping paper to school for him? And guess who came home with the same roll of wrapping paper because "it didn't work." What?!

Turns out that paper bags are the book cover of choice, second to stretchy covers of course (which don't exist in September because I looked).

So now we are down to the wire. The books are at school; the paper bags are at home; the stretchy covers have apparently flown south for winter. What to do. What to do. What to do.

Back to - pause - the debit. That's just not fair.

By the way, that's a stretchy book cover on Soren's head. If we only knew how difficult it would be to find them now, we wouldn't have turned this one into a doo-rag. But that's another story.