Green Day Lunch
By Bronwyn in Adopting moms, Cape Town Moms Abroad, Expecting Moms, Moms, Stay-at-home moms on 02 22nd, 2010 | one response
My husband works in hospitals and is up even before my little rooster. I cook good old Jungle Oats (even though as a teenie-bopper I promised I’d never feed it to my kids) in the morning and send hubbie off with his share in a tupperware. Today while I was washing out husband’s breakfast tupperware from yesterday, I was reminded of my youth.
We were lucky to get a lunch box at the beginning of the year in my younger days. Being a family with four kids and with limited budget at the time, once that lunch box was misplaced, misused or mangled, that was it. No more lunch box. Sandwich wrap was it. This meant my sarmies were vulnerable to being squashed somewhere between my history book and my homework diary.
At my primary school, those “responsible” learners could help out in the tuckshop. Oh, how grateful I was that my friend’s mom worked in the tuckshop and I would have a run at this tuckshop responsibility thing. The draw-card was those who worked, got a free hotdog and a packet of monster munch. (I think I’ve just realised where my love for hotdogs comes from.) On the free hotdog days, mom’s homemade sandwiches were less appealing and therefore found themselves at the bottom of the suitcase and who remembers to take out those sandwiches every time they land up there? Let’s just say that when on the odd (sometimes not to odd) occasion when lunch was forgotten, it was not pretty! There were times when I didn’t want to take the leftover lunch out because I knew my mom was a busy lady and I felt bad for abusing her kindness of making my sandwiches which I never ate. Other times I just didn’t want to get into trouble. So in the suitcase they stayed. 1 day, two day, three day, green day!
Husband doesn’t do the same but as I opened his breakfast box today to clean it, yet again, after a long day in his hospital bag, I was reminded of green day…
Classic!! Had a good laugh at this article, thanks for that!