The First Of A Bazillion Lunches!

So the chaos of first day of school has come and gone.  Maybe you sent off your first child or perhaps school is old hat to you.  Maybe there were a few tears, either your kids or your own!  Maybe you forgot to pack something like that $25 for school fees and school agenda or perhaps you checked, rechecked and then rechecked again to ensure that every crayon and eraser had your child's name on it.  Maybe your child got in the same class as their best friend or perhaps their heart was broken because now they would only see their best friend at recess and lunch.  Maybe they came home from school with tales saying that their teacher smells funny, or they have a new best friend but can't remember their name, or that they are no longer going to wear anything red because only kids with cooties wear red!  

Whatever the accounts of the day were, the questions that I want to know the answers to are......... Did you make lunch this morning or were you a planner, like myself, and got it all ready the night before?  What was in your kids lunchbox today?  Did you ask them what they wanted or did you put in whatever you thought best?  Did they eat it all?  Were you able to make it litterless?  


My own personal answers are - As usual, I made lunch the night before according to Jacob's request.  He asked for cheese and crackers for lunch along with carrots, a homemade granola bar and juice.  His lunchbox was completely empty and said that it was enough food!  And yes, it was litterless!

The sun has now set on the first of many school days and one solitary lunch had been packed and eaten.  For some, the chore of making a school lunch is one of the most hated jobs of parenthood and the thought of making lunch after lunch is a cruel prison of monotony!  For others it is an easier task, especially of your kid likes the monotony of the same lunch day after day after day!  But regardless of how you feel about making school lunches, time is fleeting and someday, in what seems like the very distant future, you will wish that you could rewind the master clock of time and wish that you could once again pack a lunch.  And when that realization occurs, it is then that we mail off a care package full of homemade goodies that we once packed for them in their little (maybe littlerless!) lunchbox!  

Joanna