Last Friday I had to have a liver biopsy. My friends arranged to take care of all three of my kids with some creativity and kid shuffling, so that I wouldn’t have to pay a babysitter. (Because they are awesome.) The plan was for Sadie and Emma to go to a Mother’s Morning Out program (whole ‘nother post about how mom’s NEVER do anything fun while our kids are there,) so in preparation I prepared lunches for both of them.
I had recently gotten Aubrey and Emma new Hello Kitty! lunch boxes for the new school year and Emma had been begging me to pack her a lunch so she could go some where with her awesome lunch box and new thermos. I used this opportunity, and packed both of their lunches into one GINORMOUS lunch box: TWO sandwiches (turkey and cheese, cut into triangles and crustless,) TWO bags of Doritos, a package of chocolate pudding for Emma and applesauce for Sadie and TWO spoons. Emma’s thermos was in the lunchbox and I sent a sippy cup and a bottle of milk for Sadie. (She has to suck a bottle until she starts kindergarten or I will be forced to have another baby, which my husband says is not an option.)
I knew Emma would be psyched about going to “school” if she had her lunchbox and I was trying to keep her from being upset about being away from me and not being with Aubrey for the day. Aubrey was headed for a play date with one of her friends.
I got in the bed as soon as we got home from the doctor’s appointment and Hubs picked up the kids and fed them dinner. It was bedtime before I got to ask Emma how she liked eating her lunch out of her lunchbox.
Me: Emma, what did you eat for lunch today?
Emma: TWO sandwiches, TWO bags of chips, pudding and applesauce!
Me: You only ate one sandwich though, right? (I was confizzled.)
Emma: No. Dere were TWO sandwiches, TWO bag of chips, pudding and applesauce.
Me: But, honey, that was for Sadie too!
Emma shrugged.-Welllll, her was in the highchair…
Me: What did she eat?
Emma: Uhhh, a popsicle. Some gummy snacks.
I collapsed on Emma’s bed. This meant those nursery workers assumed I packed a 12-course meal for one of my kids and NOTHING for the other one? They fed my baby GUMMY snacks for lunch while my 30lb 4-year-old consumed her caloric intake for the day in one meal.
It didn’t cross my mind to write a note explaining I had included food for both of my kids…what’s that they say about common sense?
All I can say is WOW!! I can only imagine the discussion the nursery workers probably had at your expense, I guess having a brain wasn't on their application form.
OMG that is hilarious Robin!! I can not imagine what they were thinking?!
I know! Were they REALLY thinking "I can't believe she sent all that food for one baby???" I still can't make it make sense in my head!!
Bless your heart! And those nursery workers as well. Talk about no common sense!
OK. I have to take PART of the blame. After I picked them up from mother's morning out, I realized when I saw the sandwich that they probably didn't realize the other was for Sadie! Oops. Your post is hilarious. AND Sadie is the most laid back baby there is. She sat in the most reclining chair in our kitchen, drank her milk, ate her cereal and watched the girls run around. –Brady
LOL.. So funny.. LOL.. I wish I could've seen your face when Emma told you abt her lunch:-0
Yeah, unfortunately, many day care workers are lacking on the common sense circuit, and you never know when it's your kid who's going to suffer. But at least Emma enjoyed her meal, right?
HIlarious!
I once left one of my son's diapers in my newborn's diaper bag by accident. So, I had only myself to blame when they picked that one giant size 4 diaper out of all the other size 1 diapers to put on my daughter in the nursery.