my life in a philadelphia rowhome with my five children, ages 4 thru 11, and the daily insanity that ensues.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
mother of the year
so this morning i get up to get thomas ready to go to school. i wake him up, collect all the sippy cups from other children, tell him to brush his teeth (because he needs to be told this EVERY SINGLE MORNING), gather up his uniform and lay it out for him and go downstairs to make his and tommy's lunches. i reach into the microwave to get the bread for his daily pb&j sandwich and come up empty. no white bread. hmmm...so he has pb&j crackers. i tell him to make pretend he is a giant eating little itty, bitty sandwiches. he looks at me weird. i get his snack out and go for his juice box and, you guessed it, come up empty. luckily, i find one hidden in the back of the fridge that is missing it's straw (the girls CONSTANTLY help themselves to juice boxes but are unable to put the straw in, so we wind up with a lot of beat up looking boxes with no straws). i scrounge through my silverware drawer and find an odd straw and throw that in his lunch box. poor kid. at least he has a nice communion banner, right?
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i love peanut butter crackers, i took them to work 75% of the time when i was pregnant. i can't believe you were able to find a random straw, that does make you mom of the year.
ReplyDeleteHi! Thanks for comin' over for my giveaway! Crossing my fingers for everyone :) :) :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a meal to me!!!
ReplyDeleteI would take any lunch that someone packed for me.
Yummy
Hey, I'm nominating you for mom of the year. I made my kids make their own lunches. You are way nicer than me!
ReplyDelete:) Funny! Saw you on Piecemeal People and had to come by and say hi. Don't forget not to sweat the small stuff today! :)
ReplyDeleteOK, so it *may* be time for a trip to the grocery store...but please tell me you find a way to go alone!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to catch you again later!!
ReplyDeleteI bet your out buying bread.
At least you had the pb&j part! :)
ReplyDeleteBeth,
ReplyDeleteI've had mornings just like this. We have the same problem with straws too. :)
My mom has had to improvise like that in the past, and I never starved to death so there really isn't an issue.
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At that stage in the game, I would just give up and tell him he can have whatever he wants for lunch as long as he packs it himself. He's old enough right? Eh...I'd make my almost 5 year old do it.
ReplyDeleteHaha.
ReplyDeleteWell, his lunch will be the most creative :)