Fun With Erasers

I have to confess that I have a weakness for office products. I like fresh notebooks, new pencils sharpened to a fine point, and all the little officey gadgets like tape dispensers, staplers, three hole punches, etc. So when late August, early September rolls around I tend to buy into the back-to-school buzz and want to collect all of those joyful new office products. But here's where I have to practice restraint! The last couple of years I've waited 2-3 weeks to really stock up, so that I can go to Target and get their 75% off sales! I got boxes of crayolas for $.08, and decorative folders for their homework for $.11!!! I was in heaven! I had so much crap that I had to donate some to their classrooms, but who could pass up such deals? So throughout the school year, the kids were pretty much set for supplies (to say the least) but a couple of weeks before school was out, we were at the store and Melanie was complaining that she was out of the little erasers that you put on top of the pencils. Not necessary since most pencils have erasers, but you can never have enough, eh? Fine, they were cheap, and well, I liked them as a kid too, so they came home with us. I never really thought about them again, because hey, I did my duty. I bought them. End of story.

I forget sometimes, how creative my children are. I mean, I know that they are really good artistically and that they play imagination sort of games with their toys, but sometimes they even amaze me!




Who would have thought that erasers could be so fun? They were in the back of the truck chattering and giggling and such, and we were just so grateful they were happy, that we never turned around to see what they were up to. Imagine our surprise when we finally did turn around, to see this!



And then later we saw this! The adventure went on for days after the erasers were removed for Melanie, because she left them on too long and they left little round circular hickeys on her face in that lovely pattern. We didn't go out much. Let's just say that though it was entertaining, those erasers will never be seen or heard from again....