After volunteering today Gwyneth convinced me to stick around for lunch. She is quite persuasive. I have loved watching this little gal grow as a kindergartener and make such great friends. Feeling very lucky (and doing my best to not cry that my baby is going to soon be a 1st grader – gasp!).

 

 

I didn’t pack Annabelle’s lunch this morning. Hot lunch was grilled cheese and I thought surely she could just get that and not make a fuss. She may have. Maybe? I could have had lunch with her and her friends and she would have been happy, and a bit of show off, and made me laugh. But she was probably going to be hungry this afternoon because she wouldn’t eat much.

 

Gwyneth loves her grilled cheese, but Annabelle does not and today I decided to not be that grouchy mom that I can be when I get busy and feel like I’m torn in so many directions. Today I waited for Annabelle outside the cafeteria and told her to follow me. I signed her out and off we headed to Jack N The Box (her choice. Weird?). Good to know going out for lunch is not  an absence — it’s an excused out of school activity.

 

She was all smiles and shock and I swear she nearly cried. I asked her why and she said “when I saw you without my lunch box I thought lunch would be gross, but today is the best lunch ever”. I also know that I am the “most awesomest mom EVER”. I know it’s true because she told me so.

 

Who knew? I always thought someday…maybe, someday…although we are so very similar and will probably fight constantly in the years to come….she would always know how much I really love her and we would be really, really close. I could have just bought her Jack N The Box. Well Played!  

 

 

“Don’t worry, Daddy. I know you hate fast food, but this was made to order”. (Whatever, she thinks I’m cool today….we’ll make better choices tomorrow.)