Self Sufficient
Elder Son had a long shift on Saturday, so I gave him a few options for lunch before he left.
Me: Do you want a ham and cheese sandwich, peanut butter and jelly, or do you just want to make your own lunch?
He: I don't really care as long as I don't have to make it myself.
Good enough.
If I hadn't been willing to make him a sandwich, I wouldn't have offered it as an option.
As I prepared to pack his lunch fixings into a paper bag, we had this conversation:
Me: Do a lot of people at work bring food in a plain paper bag? Should I write your name on this so you know this one's yours?
He: That wouldn't be a bad idea.
Me: Do you want me to draw little hearts on this? Or flowers?
He: Uh...
Me: ... or put little animal stickers on it?
He: Or... I write my own name on the bag. I could do that part myself.
Good enough, son.
Good enough.
4 comments:
Love it! I would vote for the animal stickers...
There was a time, Christie, (and I swear it wasn't so long ago) that he preferred the animal stickers.
... but then he started playing shoot-em-up things on-line. So...
Maybe I need zombie stickers?
Zombie stickers on his lunch bag at work. I like it.
Roses, My little Stubble (who used to call me "sweet and charming mother" when he wanted something really badly), will be turning 21 in 3 weeks...
If you find the zombie stickers, please let me know. He has lunch in my office every day right before calculus and I'd like to surprise him.
Christie, that is *the* most adorable idea I have ever heard.
I have never seen actual zombie stickers, but I'm sure they must exist somewhere.
And in my mind, I can see that you have them and you are surprising Stubble with them tomorrow.
No, no...
You let me have this fantasy...
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