So before I dive into today’s Halloween family fun, a couple stories. Tonight I was driving home from a charity function (which I’ll mention more later) and it occurred to me . . . I missed a HUGE opportunity with yesterday’s post. The title of the post should have been “Give ‘the finger’ to school lunches”. I have never had so many people comment to me about how much they too hate packing school lunches. My favorite comment came from my mother-in-law. Here’s what she wrote in an e-mail to me:
I too hated to make school lunches - choosing to have them buy instead. I never felt creative about lunches. There was a time when [my son]* couldn't remember to take lunch money and I finally had to tell the teacher "No more lunch loans!" She thought I was really cruel!
(* “my son” has been substituted for my husband’s name so as to protect the guilty).
The best part about this little story, at the very moment that I received this e-mail I had just hung up the phone with the school district’s automated system that said “Dear Mrs. Dugdale – the Superego (yep, the automated system calls her that too) has a school lunch account balance of negative two dollars and fifty cents”. Now isn’t it interesting that we have three children at that school, all three of whom always have the same lunch scenario, and yet only one of them has exceeded her account balance. Apparently the school lunch account apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!
Ok, on to family fun. Today it was mummy meatloaf. Here’s what I learned about making shapes out of an otherwise mundane dinner:
