Every year I buy oodles of school supplies. A quirk about homeschool moms is that we love to buy school supplies. In fact, we can get downright giddy for the right ones. My shelves are filled with paper, binders, scissors, markers, crayons, pencils, pens, folders, and all the trimmings. Even if my supply is full I still take advantage of school supply sales. You can never have too many pencils or too much paper, right?
While most of my school supplies consist of items for the kids, every now and again I like to keep up on teacher supplies. I require little things like binders, planners, red pens, highlighters, stickers, and pens. The only problem I have when it comes to my pens is little elves steal them. I am a bit of a pen snob. Okay, a lot of a pen snob. I only buy pens that write smoothly and tend to be a joy to write with. My kids end up borrowing, I call it stealing, my pens and next thing I know I am out. I catch my daughter with a pen and there is no way to identify if it was my pen or her pen. Yes, my love of the perfect pen leads to embarrassing acts of childishness. I demand to know where they found the pen and insist that tooth impression is clearly mine.
Quite by accident I found the solution. Here it is:
You see, the writer in me loves a fountain pen. It gives me the feel that even my grocery lists are perfect pose fit for publishing. I love the reflection of the words written in the tip. I love feeling like Charles Dickens as I write my simple “to-do” list. I may be a little quirky but we all have our vices. Bic knew some pen fanatics were as crazy as me so they made the disposable fountain pen. My kids thought it was the coolest pen in the house. I quickly deemed it the teacher’s pen and said it was for me only. Now, I really am not this selfish but I tend to go a little nuts when I can’t find a pen in reach so really it is for everyone’s safety. I think $5.99 is a fair price to pay to retain sanity and feel like Ernest Hemingway while doing it.
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