It all began on Monday, August 15....
Peyton and I were going to run to Justice to pick up the backpack we saw at the Galleria, but she wanted to look at it one more time on the internet...we opened the proverbial can of worms! She had to look at ALL the backpacks, and just as we were about to close the website and head to the store - there it was! A monogrammed backpack that actually offered the letter "P". Justice never has "P"s in their jewelry, their purses, their journals, notebooks...nothing! This was quite a find!
Needless to say, we ordered it immediately and from the shipping option we picked - it seemed like it would get here on the 22nd - the first day of school. She was fine with that...let's be honest, her backpacks from the past 2 years are in really good shape...but for my girl, a backpack is the perfect purse - an accessory - the ultimate, has-to-go-with-everything-and-make-me-look-stylish accessory!
But then on Tuesday, an e-mail came to my work telling me that the backpack had already shipped...estimated delivery date, Saturday, August 20th!!!
Great news, right? Well, great news until Patrick, while driving home from work on Friday, saw a UPS truck in our neighborhood...clearly, that truck held all kinds of treasures and certainly "the P backpack"!
Next thing I know, I hear something being moved across the kitchen floor...a kitchen chair! Peyton drug it into the living room, opened the blinds wide and sat down to wait for that UPS driver to bring her backpack...
The longer she waited, the more discouraged she got...where could he be? Heck, I was even walking outside peering down the street! Finally, we jumped in the car and toured the neighborhood looking for "2 Brown Socks" (pet name for the UPS guy) only to fail...and then to come home to check the tracking on the backpack and find that it was being shipped FedEx!!! Friday would not be the backpack delivery day...
Tah-Dah!!! Saturday about 2:00pm Mr. Fed Ex showed up with this year's ultimate backpack (with matching binder) and the wait was officially over and all was right in her world!
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