Me, pack a lunch for her?

July 27, 2009 by Barbara.

Reid has always attended day care, school and camp where lunches were provided. Today, though, is the first day that I’ve had to pack her a lunch. I wasn’t quite sure how what to send or how much of it to send, for that matter. Reid was super-excited to take her lunch and eagerly gathered cherries - 9 of them - to put in a container and asked for a Babybel cheese to accompany her tortilla with cream cheese, lettuce and ham roll-up. I added a container with cucumbers, cauliflower and carrots, a Clementine and a peeled, hard-boiled egg as well as water. I’m quite sure that there is twice as much food in Reid’s lunch bag than she could possibly eat at lunch - they provide morning and afternoon snacks - but I didn’t know what to take out. I told Reid to eat at least half of her sandwich and three pieces of the vegetables. I’m going to have to visit the Vegan Lunchbox blog to get a better idea of how much to send and whatever comes again. Of course, I’m not sure whether Reid can open the containers that I packed her lunch in. She might bring it all home…

Cosmic Adventures is pretty much around the corner from our house and so we walked over this morning. As we walked, Reid said how this was a VERY GOOD day. She was bringing her lunch for the first time ever without me AND she was walking to camp for the first time ever! We observed the universal rules of kids walking: crossing with the walk signal and not stepping on the cracks in the sidewalk. Reid said the latter was to ensure that we didn’t come into contact with poison ivy. Not that we knew there was poison ivy there or not. “We don’t know, right, Mama?” Nope, but I like that better than contemplating a broken back for either me or *my* mother. Maybe I should’ve taught her the rhyme about cracks and mother’s broken backs. It’s the sort of thing she’d pick up if she walked to school with neighbourhood kids. Not that I’ve ever seen that happening in our neighbourhood, what with the 4 school boards.

All in all, a momentous day in a very small way.

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