What a great morning! Productive, collaborative, encouraging, and full of many lessons. The boys got a valuable lesson this morning that we will call "managing your resources." A pot of quinoa cooked on the stove and fresh backyard collected eggs. There are even frozen berries in the freezer and greens in the fridge...all the fixings for a great breakfast AND a quick packed lunch. Well, no smoothie, no eggs, not berries bowl with seeds, etc was made...and the lunch option went down as breakfast....
Boys: "Mom, what's for lunch?"
Me: "You didn't pack it?"
Boys: "Pack what?"
Me: why didn't you make eggs or something else for breakfast?
Boy #1: Well he ate it all for breakfast!
Me: "So what did you have for breakfast?"
Boy #1: "Hmph...(stomp, stomp)
Me: ..."Well, come home for lunch then."
Boy #1: ..."What? Can't you just make something and drop it off?..."
Me: "No. You can come home for lunch. I will be here...finishing around the house...."
Natural consequences....I plan on making "lunch" at lunchtime and they can join me AT lunch to enjoy it. We only live less than 10 minutes from their school (by foot), and they have an hour...Lots of time. And someday, they will love that they get that "freedom"...to come home for a warm meal. But for today, it's a great opportunity to value and weigh ALL that you have at your disposal and make a plan of what to do with it all. As for me, I have many rooms that are calling for some specific "detailing" before I have people over this evening (I am admittedly "messy" when it comes to managing the laundry fold and sort, but the piles are all ready to go to their designated locations ). Oh and a proper breakfast is calling as well.
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