Sometimes when you’re a mom, you’ve got to get creative.
My eldest can be a picky eater. Today nothing I suggested for lunch was delectable sounding to his persnickety palate.
He wanted a lunchable. I don’t like buying them for him, so I do it very rarely. Today he REALLY wanted a lunchable. We of course had none. So I got creative and made him one. I cut up some lunch meat into circles using a shot glass and a donut dough cutter thing. I thought he’d be really excited, after all the boy loves meat.
Apparently he wasn’t to thrilled with my homemade version, because 
later this afternoon when cleaning out his lunchbox I fond that he’d only eaten like two or three pieces. All the other healthier stuff he did eat so I didn’t feel like a complete failure until homework time when I found a note from his teacher’s aid saying he’d had a small meltdown at lunch. I neglected to give him money for ice cream. Today is ice cream day at his school (and we wonder why our kids are fat, not only do they serve gross precooked and reheated lunches most of the time, they have an ice cream day once each week.) He has over $20 in his school lunch account, I just assumed he could use that-but apparently he couldn’t. You know what the say about assuming right?
Sigh. Sometimes…you just can’t win.
If I sent a lunchable to one of our kids schools, I would get a phone call telling me to bring a new lunch cause their not allowed. Which makes it harder on us moms who have that lazy moment in the morning after 5 cups of coffee WON’T wake us up and we can’t resort to a quick and easy fix to our kids lunches.
I found out not too long ago that my kids lunch account didn’t cover those extra special goodies, BUT my 12 year old twins had been sneaking money into school to buy them anyway. Luckily, I got a call from “Bonnie” at the lunch room who asked if it was okay for my twins to be purchasing ice cream, like EVERY SINGLE DAY!
So now, am I not only NOT allowed to make my kids a non-thinking lunch every once in a while; I am also forced to pad the kids down for any money they may be sneaking into the school to buy something in the lunch room that may — or may not be — worse than what I would have sent them to school with.
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