The Schoolbag

OK, it's official, we have purchased a schoolbag. I am sure Ayla will never shop for something with me again. After making her try on various schoolbags that had the "wheelie" capability COMBINED with the back pack straps, weighing the comfort of the shoulder straps, durability and replacability of the clasps, the room inside the actual bag, the singled off compartment accessibility, how the bag sat on there back and color, we left without one as blue jogging pants were the major shopping item. I told her that I did like the bag, but it was $70, so we needed to see how much we were going to spend at Old Navy first. After leaving Old Navy empty handed, we popped over to Jacob to see if they had anything reasonable. Everything was long and $35. "Oh Auntie Tanya, I wouldn't want you to spend that much on me for school!". As we then left Jacob, Ayla holding my hand and walking along, she asks, "So, are we gonna get the school bag?" Laughing, I agreed, so she now has a very practical and much loved school bag. Brown. With pink squares, of course.