Well, it has been a Week.

[oloriel]

Not necessarily a bad Week, but a very full Week.

I feel like I should be be talking about the fantasy convention at the local castle, or the trip to the local Kirmes (fun fair), Julian's first week in Kindergarten, or the other trip to the Kirmes.

But the Week is not yet over, and another momentous event is rearing its head.



So yeah. No time to talk. House to clean, dinner to make, anxieties to soothe, Schultüte to fill...

We'll see how that goes!

Comments

[ysilme]

*hugs, crossed fingers and lots of energy* It'll be a while for us yet, but my nephew is doing the same in two weeks.
I remember how much I loved my own Schultüte. I wasn't spoiled for sweets, quite the opposite, and cool stationary also wasn't something I was familiar with. So finding not only things I needed for school (Pelikan Wasserfarben! LOL ) but also a surprising lot of sweets and stuff like animal-shaped erasers and pencil sharpeners was the perfect cherry on top of the most exciting event for me, as I'd been totally eager to _finally_ become an adult. *rofl*

[oloriel]

I remember that we were not allowed to bring our own Schultüten because the school was anxious that kids whose parents couldn't afford a nice one (or just didn't bother) would be made sad by seeing other kids' better ones. As a result, the Förderverein bought Schultüten for everyone that were equal - in all but colour! There were Schultüten in pink metallic, green metallic or copper metallic cardboard, and of course all of us little girls wanted pink but there weren't enough, so I ended up with a copper one. I first had to convince myself that copper was "just as nice" but after that, I loved it to pieces. There's a pic of me after I had gone to bed that night, and apparently I had taken my Schultüte along, all snuggled up as if it was a teddy bear. XD Mind you, I didn't really need the Schultüte in order to sweeten the start of my Ernst des Lebens - I couldn't wait to start school - but it was such an important attribute of that particular rite of passage! Perhaps that is why I don't remember any of the contents. Well, except for the piggy bank. It was indeed pig-shaped, but it was blue, and it was covered in some sort of velvety material! I still remember that one very vividly.

Now this time, every family had to bring their own Schultüte and in all honesty, I didn't see any shabby ones. I mean, some people had crafty ones (like the one we made) and some had ready-made, store-bought ones, but I presume the themes were all chosen by the kids (Felix wanted a steam train) so everyone had their own favourite design. They didn't unpack their Schultüten in class so nobody knows what the others had in theirs, so, no cause for jealousy.

[independence1776]

Whee! Good luck!

Schultüte seem like an awesome tradition.

[oloriel]

Thank you!

I certainly think so! Not that they're still strictly needed, since kids nowadays are rarely starved for sugar nor need to have the start of their academic education, now very kid-friendly, sweetened. But it's a beloved tradition, so we all maintain it!

[cowboy_r]

"the local castle"

/sigh

I miss having a local castle, even one as plebian as Plesseburg.