Just found this most dated 11/20/08, somehow it never got published.
School Lunch
AJ loves school lunch, mainly to his mother's dismay. School lunch appears to have morphed into an overprocessed hunk of food on a styrofoam plate. Lunch not being a battle I want to fight, AJ eats school lunch everyday.
On last week's schedule I had written that AJ needed to take a sack lunch to school because they were going to a theatre production. I was fairly confident the field trip was the next week, but just to be on the safe side I sent a lunch with AJ. Some people are quick learned, apparently I am not one of them.
First Try (Wed): When he got home, he took the lunch out of his backpack and handed it to me.
AJ: "No field trip today, Mom"
Lisa: "Why didn't you eat the lunch I packed?"
AJ: "It was corn dog day."
I put the lunch in the fridge and sent it with him the next day.
Second Try (Thurs): When he got home, he took the lunch out of his backpack and handed it to me.
AJ: "No field trip today, Mom"
Lisa: "Why didn't you eat the lunch I packed?"
AJ: "We didn't go on a field trip."
I pulled out the non-perishable goodies and let the kids scavenge the rest.
Third Try (Wed): When he got home, he took the lunch out of his backpack and handed it to me.
AJ: "The field trip is rescheduled until tomorrow."
Lisa: Blank stare
I put the lunch in the fridge and sent it with him the next day.
Fourth Try (Thurs): When he got home, he took the lunch out of his backpack and handed it to me.
Lisa: "No field trip again today?"
AJ: "No we went. It was the Thanksiving Fest."
Lisa: Blank stare
I left it on the counter and let the other kids scavenge it.
2 comments:
This is why I don't bother making lunch for Patrick. The few times he has taken food to work, he forgets so it sits in the fridge at work for a week and then he finally brings it home, rotten. Not worth the effort!
Just like Al...likes cafeteria food, huh?
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