time to blog...but not much to say. i love having a day of NOTHING...
however that really can’t describe today. the kids while having no school, still have choral practices, maxx has a science fair experiment to pull off today (which involves his science fair partner and me driving them to various places in town to test cell phone reception), a house to clean for Bible study tomorrow (and all of us in the house today which really makes any cleaning kinda pointless), and a grocery trip for the kids to buy their lunch ingredients for the next few weeks.
this year they have been making their own lunches (i am such a slacker mom). actually i think my demise into not even caring any more about “mother of the year” began when i realized that they all liked TOTALLY different things for lunch. nothing in common. nothing....
not to mention that lunches have to be made after 7 p.m. which is after dinner and kitchen clean up and i am DONE with being in the kitchen and i have less than 3 brain cells left to rub together much less remember that maxx HATES yogurt, rosie HATES peanut butter, and millie HATES bread sandwiches. or lunches have to be made before 7 a.m. when i am still half asleep and have less than 2.5 brain cells that have actually woken up and i cannot remember that millie LIKE yogurt, rosie LIKES chicken soup, and maxx LIKES peanut butter sandwiches.
so this year, they have been making their own lunches at night. but since i am not making lunches, i don’t know when we are out of applesauce (which only maxx likes) or baby oranges (rosie’s beloved fruit). so i took my excellent 67 brain cells which were all functioning on a sunny sunday afternoon 3 weeks ago and came up with a plan...
i took them all to the grocery, handed them each a $20 bill and told them to buy their lunch supplies for two weeks.
and then went and got my nails done.... (just kidding, i stayed with them in the grocery)
and i overheard these comments...
“juice boxes are WAY too expensive. let’s all go in together on one 6 pack of gatorade, and then we each have 2 gatorades and we can reuse the bottles and fill them with water for the other days”.
“who wants to split this turkey meat with me? it’s on SALE!!!!!!”
“i need to use the calculator, i think these pretzels will put me over my budget”.
in a word, it was budget-tastic and slightly thrilling and made me happy to be a mom with 67 functioning brain cells and three kids who are really good at math.
in fact, my kids are much better than i am at staying on a budget. for some reason they think it is FUN. oh, the inexplicable joys of youth...
so today we are grocery shopping together again for their lunch stuff. it is almost as exciting as a trip to a theme park. it is quite an adventure and today.... they are each taking their own calculator AND i am giving them $25 and they have to make their lunch stuff last through dec. 1. i know, my magnanimousness is endless (just like my love for really big words).
really, you should see their gratitude when i spring for a bag of pretzels for them to split.... truly, i am so benevolent, so kindhearted, so selfless.... could that elusive “mother of the year” award be arriving in the mail today?
nope, because it is a holiday.
and i am sure that is the ONLY reason it won’t be arriving...